Hello. I'm Brandon Karr with Marcus & Millichap. I lead the Karr Self-Storage Team in our Fort Worth, TX office and in our latest 'Ask the Broker' video, we wanted to talk a little bit about how interest rates could impact the value of your self-storage real estate moving into the 2nd half of 2021...

Potential Tax Legislation Hello. I'm Brandon Karr with Marcus & Millichap. I lead the Karr Self-Storage Team in our Fort Worth, TX office and in our latest 'Ask the Broker' video, we wanted to talk a little bit about how potential tax legislation being proposed by the Biden Administration could impact real estate investors.  Build...

Receiving too many Off-Market Offers? Hi this is Danny Cunningham with the Karr Self-Storage Team here in Fort Worth, TX.  It seems that every storage owner I talk to or meet with lately tells me that they are getting bombarded by folks trying to solicit off-market offers to purchase their facility.  Whether the interest is...

Health Crisis Upends Commercial Real Estate' Uncertainty Will Carry Well Into 2021 Pandemic Transforms Commercial Real Estate. COVID-19 changed the world in early 2020 as efforts to curb the spread of the pandemic had a dramatic impact. Stay-at-home orders, the need to physically distance, and having to abide by health and safety protocols had harsh...

Constant Contact Survey Results   Survey Name: 2021 Self-Storage Outlook Survey What is your overall view of the Texas self-storage market since Coronavirus hit in March 2020? To what extent was your property(s) financial performance impacted by the pandemic? Do you believe the value of your commercial property(s) has increased, decreased, or remained the same...

People today wonder about interest rates and how they impact their property's value. Some owners also ask whether or not we could sell their property for more money now that interest rates have reached near record lows. The answer to this question is that while we definitely need to look into the situation more deeply,...

A client of ours called us the other day and we were looking at loans. She was thinking about buying one of the properties that we had listed and so I thought I would bring this topic here to discuss as well, that topic being cash on cash return. So what is cash on cash...

Introduction Today we are discussing the capital markets in broad strokes with some finer points relative to the self-storage asset class. Specifically, with COVID, where are we today? Is the market influenced exclusively by where treasuries are? Is it sponsor specific? Is it geographically based? What about rates? Broad Strokes With a broad stroke, rates...

Discussion about Capital Markets Introduction Karr Self Storage spends most of the time in the primary markets throughout Texas. But, one of the interesting things that were seen that is relative to the capital markets is an interest in secondary markets. A portfolio was recently closed out in The Permian in West Texas, not too...

The short answer is yes. Pricing for self-storage facilities is as attractive now as it has ever been for a few different reasons. The first comes down to simple supply-demand. There are fewer properties on the market right now than there have been at any point in time in the past five years. And there...