Booming Tech Sector Boosts Incomes, Storage Demand Economic Overview As prominent companies like Tesla and Facebook move operations to Austin this year, the metro's job market is projected to grow substantially. Due to a thriving tech industry, Austin boasts the fastest job growth in office-using sectors among major metropolitan areas, allowing for a consumer base...

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...

We are here with the Karr Self-Storage team in Marcus & Millichap's Fort Worth, Texas office. Today we will talk about our brand new website. If you visit www.karrselfstorage.com, moving forward once every week or so, we're going to be updating our site with our new "Ask The Broker" video blog series. The video blog...

Meet our New Partners - Metropolitan Capital - Now a Part of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation Today we are discussing the capital markets for not just storage, but everything that's going on in the marketplace in general right now. And, we're here in the new Dallas office and part of the Marcus & Millichap...

Many times when I introduce myself to storage owners and I tell them that I'm a broker, they say something along the lines of, "Oh, so you want me to sell my property?" And the truth is that I have no idea if it's even the right time for you to sell. Of course, as...

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...