277. Forecasting Self Storage in 2025 | Are We Headed for a Major Bounce Back?
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The self storage industry will change in 2025, and it could make you (and many others) very wealthy. In this episode, we’re giving our 2025 self-storage industry outlook, breaking down our predictions for 2025, what self-storage investors can expect, and why this could be one of the greatest years yet for self-storage investing.
We’ve just come out of a market-defining cycle. The “easy investing” ended in 2022, and since then, self storage operators have suffered. Discounted rates, low occupancy, endless supply, and deal-breaking interest rates have plagued us. Thankfully, that just booted a ton of your competition out of the market.
We believe 2025 could be one of the most critical years in self storage, and we’re making BIG moves. If you want to hear exactly what we’re doing to ensure we grow our portfolio in 2025, what we’re looking to buy, and how we’re finding deals, stick around. These are our 2025 self storage predictions; if you miss them, you could miss out on an opportunity that might not resurface for decades.
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- Our 2025 self storage industry forecast and predictions for the next year
- Why the market cycle has flipped and whether or not we’re heading into a bull market
- The massive opportunities that are coming your way in 2025 (and where to find them)
- One thing to be aware of that could RUIN your self storage investment no matter your experience
- Our investing plans for 2025 and where we’re finding deals to buy
- The biggest barriers to entry for new self storage investors in 2025 (and how to get over them)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Storage was booming up into that point. |
| 0:02.2 | And booming as an understatement. Like, it got crazy. So it got 96% occupancy rates going up. Traditionally, we'd never even hit 90% occupancy. And so all of a sudden, we're at 96% three years in a row. And just jacking rates, revenue's going crazy. Crazy, right? Cap rates are freaking four. Everybody wants. Like, It didn't matter if you could operate the business. |
| 0:22.7 | And everyone forgot about that. |
| 0:24.9 | They forgot about operating a business. |
| 0:27.2 | And that bubble popped. |
| 0:28.6 | 2024 was a transitionary period into a new cycle for self-storage. |
| 0:33.9 | During these transitionary periods, everyone, this is where you make all your money. That lag of |
| 0:38.9 | supply and demand is going to hit. And if you invest now, when that demand is huge and there's |
| 0:45.2 | limited supply, you're freaking winning. 25 and 26 are transitioning from the down market |
| 0:51.6 | to the bull market. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. transitioning from the down market to the bull market. Welcome everybody to self-storage income, and it is 2025. |
| 1:05.4 | So Connor and I are going to talk about the state of the industry and what 2025 looks like for self storage. |
| 1:16.4 | You ready for this man? So ready for it. And I couldn't be more ready for the podcast. And I |
| 1:21.2 | couldn't be more ready for 2025. I think there's some good things we're going to be talking about. |
| 1:25.4 | Obviously, some pitfalls we might want to |
| 1:27.7 | look out for some of those different things. But I think at a high level, we've touched on some of |
| 1:32.9 | these in previous podcasts as far as, you know, what 2023, 2024 kind of looked like and then moving |
| 1:39.4 | into 2025. But I'm excited to really dive into this, get a little bit more granular as far as what we're |
| 1:45.1 | expecting to see, because obviously a couple years prior weren't the most amazing for anybody. |
| 1:51.8 | Yeah. And so, 2024 was fantastic. A lot of momentum there and movement there in a lot of right |
| 1:57.5 | directions. And I think we're going to continue to see that in 2025. |
| 2:02.6 | And two, what changes you need to make and expect, including what changes we have done? |
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