280. Self Storage Outlook 2025 | A New Cycle, Best Markets, & Potential Pitfalls
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
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The last few years have been difficult for real estate, self storage included. Is there finally light at the end of the tunnel? Today, we’re giving you our high-level, self storage industry outlook for 2025. Whether you’re a long-time investor or brand new to the industry, you’re about to learn why NOW is the time to invest in self storage!
After a three-year down period, we are finally turning the corner and entering a new cycle. If you’re an investor, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about where self storage is headed. If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, there’s no better time to get into the game than right now. And this isn’t just false optimism. We’re so bullish that we’re buying and developing our own facilities in 2025!
In this episode, we’re reflecting on 2024, diving into the data, and giving you an investing roadmap for the next 12 months and beyond. Tune in to learn which markets offer the most opportunity for small investors and how YOU can take advantage of an enormous transfer of facilities that will occur by 2030.
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- Why NOW is the best time for new investors to get into self storage
- The enormous self storage “transfer” that will happen by 2030
- The third and fourth-tier markets that offer huge opportunities for small investors
- Why we are primed to see a self storage development boom in the US
- How new investors can take advantage of waning interest in self storage
- Why good assets at fair prices always trump bad assets at great prices
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| 0:00.0 | This is going to transform the self-storage industry. |
| 0:02.8 | These third, fourth and fifth tier markets, baby boomers, mom and pop, they're selling. |
| 0:08.4 | This is going to pick up speed. |
| 0:09.9 | So this is a really good time. |
| 0:11.9 | You can buy great deals at great prices, and the market is now going to be in your favor instead of against you. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. And today we have our forecast episode. Now, this one is going to look a lot, not at the larger trends, but how 2025 is going to perform within those larger trends. |
| 0:43.6 | So it has been a major shift. |
| 0:45.8 | And 2025 is a big transitionary time. |
| 0:50.5 | So we at our firm, we have seen big changes in deals, capital flow, performance, all sorts of stuff. |
| 0:58.5 | So when looking at 2025, how we're allocating our resources, ramping up, what kind of deals we're buying, everything else is predicated on these data, these assumptions. |
| 1:08.9 | And that's what we're sharing with you today. So how the self-storage |
| 1:12.4 | industry will perform in 2025. Exactly right. No, I'm excited to dive into it and really not only |
| 1:19.2 | paint the picture, but also allow people to see, you know, a lot of the things that we're looking at. |
| 1:23.5 | We're not looking at crystal balls. We're not guessing. We're looking at indicators. We're looking at past |
| 1:28.2 | experiences, drawing from that experience, sharing that with you guys. So if you're going out there, |
| 1:33.6 | you're buying, you're building, you're not stepping into a landmine that you have no idea that you're |
| 1:38.2 | walking into because like we've seen in just years previous, you had a lot of people going out |
| 1:42.5 | building, acquiring, trying to do things that didn't make any sense, thinking that occupancies would stay 90 plus percent and revenues. |
| 1:49.8 | It just keep getting jacked up, right? |
| 1:51.5 | And so a lot of those people, like we've mentioned in prior podcasts, are gone. |
| 1:55.6 | How do you avoid those pitfalls? |
| 1:57.6 | I'm really excited to really just jump in and give people a little bit of a roadmap to say, |
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