General Overview Since our last update on the Vancouver market, there have been some small changes in some of the metrics we track. Below are the chan...

We are two weeks away fro the CSSA Vancouver show. Hopefully you have registered by now so Sue can stop bothering me to get everyone registered. I wil...

If you read my recent Alberta Market update (Alberta, the good the bad and the ugly) you’ll know that the overall storage market in Alberta is less th...

Recently, I have been doing a great deal of work in the Lower Mainland of BC.  Part of this is the very hot market for storage and part is wanting The...

General Overview: This article covers the storage market in the area referred to as Greater Vancouver.  The population of Greater Vancouver which incl...

At one point, during the boom in oil and the robust Canadian economy, Alberta was one of the leaders in occupancy, rental increases and new constructi...

Today we cover why area surveys are important and why not to just take what a facility posts online at face value. Thanks for Listening Patrick The po...

What did Cap Rates do in Q1 and what do we see happening moving forward? The post 2019 Q1 Self Storage Cap Rate Trends appeared first on CSSVS.

In this article we will discuss Third Party Management in the Canadian Self Storage space.  Who does it, what it is, and should you consider it?  In r...

Today we cover Appraisals. What they are, who needs them and how we do them. We also touch on how we evaluate your numbers and whats is involved in st...