Disruption & Self Storage

Disruption can be characterised as innovative new businesses sweeping away old ways of doing things. [...]

Food For Thought – June 2017

A typical concern of self storage owners is the freehold property worth. While this used [...]

Food for Thought: Going Concern and Leasehold Self Storage Values

A typical going concern self storage in the UK comprises the overall freehold property worth [...]

Country Blues

It’s of continuing concern to me that having just valued another provincial (smaller scale) self [...]

It’s official – Banks want to lend you money again!

In quite a few conversations I’ve had with clients and individual bankers around the country [...]

Banking Blues – Part 2

Over the last several months I have needed to speak with major Banks in all [...]

Banking Blues – Part 1

I recently held a phone conversation with a major Bank property officer. He couldn’t understand [...]

The Credit Crisis

I was recently speaking to the property people in four of our major banks. They [...]

Cap Rates 101

A capitalization (cap) rate, in simple terms, refers to the net return expected from an [...]