ANDOVER, MASS. — Tampa-based SkyView Advisors has arranged the sale of a 470-unit self-storage facility located at 17 Dundee Park Drive in Andover, a northern suburb of Boston. The property is situated on 1.5 acres and spans 65,836 net rentable square feet. Richard Riddle and Ryan Clark of SkyView Advisors represented the seller in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $140 million credit facility with the ability to expand up to $215 million for Los Angeles-based InSite Property Group. The facility will fund InSite’s development pipeline of Class A self-storage facilities across the nation. ACORE Capital provided the floating-rate loan, which was arranged by Bill Fishel, Matt Stewart and Chad Morgan of JLL Capital Markets, along with Brian Somoza, Steve Mellon and Griffin Guthneck of JLL’s national self-storage team. The financing is part of the InSite’s ongoing acquisition, development and repositioning strategy that includes a pipeline of 40 projects totaling nearly 5 million square feet of core, Class A product in infill markets across the United States. The company operates facilities under the Secure Space Self Storage brand.
HUDSON, N.H. — NAI Norwood Group has negotiated the sale of Hudson Self Storage, a 321-unit facility in Hudson, located outside Nashua near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. The property totals 39,825 net rentable square feet. Joseph Mendola of NAI Norwood represented the undisclosed seller and the institutional buyer in the transaction. The sales price was $4.8 million.
By Mirela Mohan of STORAGECafé The self-storage industry closed 2020 on an upward path, seeing stable or rising rental rates and elevated construction activity across the board after an uncertain year. According to our data, new construction stayed on a steady trajectory throughout the year, with 49.4 million square feet of new product added nationally — slightly less than the volume of new development in 2019. This came as a natural consequence of the high existing inventory which, combined with the shock of the pandemic, eventually led to the asking rate plunge in the first half of 2020. Rates Plunge, Then Revive The existing high inventories put downward pressure on asking rates in 2020, and the arrival of the pandemic only accentuated the existing trend. However, after rents bottomed out at $112 per month in May, street rates started picking up. By December 2020, national street rates had reached $118 per month, a 3.5 percent year-over-year increase. This slow but steady supply growth was mostly linked to consistent demand that emerged from both traditional sources such as moving and downsizing, as well as from new sources created by last year’s disruptive events. For example, college students began to need short-term …
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Insite Property Group has acquired Statewide Self Storage, a facility located in the Northern New Jersey city of Piscataway. The property is situated on three acres and features 66,000 net rentable square feet of drive-up and interior space across more than 600 units. Insite plans to implement a renovation that will deliver new signage, a revamped facade, improved lighting and fresh landscaping and paint jobs. The new ownership will also operate the property and rebrand it as SecureSpace Stelton. The seller was not disclosed.
CALABASAS, CALIF. — Gantry has arranged a total of $364 million in long-term refinancing for Calabasas-based The Ezralow Co. for 15 separate self-storage and industrial assets in California. Paige Serden, Peter Welsh, Braden Turnbull and Josh Natker of Gantry’s Los Angeles production office structured the loans, which were sourced from four separate life insurance companies, three of which are Gantry’s correspondent lenders. Totaling 1.75 million square feet, the 12 Price Self Storage-operated properties are located in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and Contra Counties. The three industrial properties offer a total of 428,000 square feet of multi-tenant space in Southern California.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Newport Beach, California-based Buchanan Street Partners has purchased a newly constructed self-storage facility located at 6191 S.E. Powell Blvd. in Portland. Leon Capital Group sold the property for $22 million in an off-market transaction. The three-story asset, which will be rebranded as a US Storage Centers location, features 102,450 square feet of climate-controlled storage space. Buchanan Street acquired the property, which received its certificate of occupancy in July 2020, during lease-up. Westport Properties will handle property management responsibilities.
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. — Tulfra Real Estate, a locally based investment and development firm, has sold an 816-unit self-storage facility in the Northern New Jersey community of Rochelle Park. The four-story, 113,000-square-foot facility is located within the seven-acre Village Center of Rochelle Park mixed-use development. The buyer was Columbia Self Storage. Tulfra Real Estate acquired the property, a former AT&T data site, in late 2018.
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. — The Hampshire Cos. has completed a 697-unit self-storage facility at 900 State St. in the Northern New Jersey city of Perth Amboy that will be operated under the Extra Space Storage brand. The 94,600-square-foot facility offers full climate control for interior units and represents the 46th project that Hampshire has developed for Extra Space Storage.
TULSA, OKLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Tulsa Hills Storage, a self-storage facility that consists of 71 climate-controlled units, 176 non-climate-controlled units and 19 parking spaces for a total of 266 storage options. Trey Hammond, Mike Mele and Luke Elliott of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sellers, Paul Korte, Brett Biery, Anthony Isler and McAuley Properties LLC, in the transaction. Attic @ Tulsa Hills LLC acquired the property for an undisclosed price.
