Self Storage Investor Survey
Current self storage trends and market conditions
 

Scope of Research
The Investor Survey is completed primarily through telephone interviews by Cushman & Wakefield's Self Storage Industry Group. Survey respondents include self storage investors, owners, developers, managers, brokers and bankers from throughout the United States accounting for over 100 million square feet of self storage property. The data presented is a summary of the survey and highlights key information relating to general market conditions for self storage, capitalization rates, financing, optimism index and other current, relevant information for the asset class.
 

A summary of the Winter 2005 Investor Survey appears in the September 2005 issue of Mini-Storage Messenger. You can view the article by clicking the link below, or you can order a complete copy of this issue from MiniCo's Mini-Storage Messenger website.

  Winter 2005 Investor Survey*
  166K PDF (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader required; see below)
 

The Winter 2004 Investor Survey appeared in the June 2004 issue of Mini-Storage Messenger. You can view the article by clicking the link below, or you can order a complete copy of this issue from MiniCo's Mini-Storage Messenger website.

  Winter 2004 Investor Survey*
  238K PDF (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader required; see below)
 

The 2003 Investor Survey was summarized in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey© for First Quarter 2003, in a section entitled "Special Report: National Self Storage Industry", and updated in the same publication for Third Quarter 2003. You can view the articles by clicking the link below.

  Special Report: National Self Storage Industry (First Quarter 2003)
  379K PDF (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader required; see below)

  Special Report: National Self Storage Industry (Third Quarter 2003)
  22K PDF (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader required; see below)
 
These articles are provided courtesy of Self Storage Economics with the permission of PricewaterhouseCoopers. © PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. All Rights Reserved.

 R. Christian Sonne authored an article in the October 2002 issue of Mini-Storage Messenger entitled "The 2002 Self-Storage Investor Survey", which offers insights into the investment criteria for self-storage property based on responses by industry investors, developers, managers, brokers and bankers throughout the United States. You can view the article by clicking the link below, or you can order a complete copy of this issue from MiniCo's Mini-Storage Messenger website.

  2002 Self-Storage Investor Survey*
  385K PDF (Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, or Adobe Reader required; see below)