CSTA Industry Report - Insights 👀

Goood Evening Store Nation,

Sorry this is late … I totally forgot if im honest

Let’s get on with it

Lets dooo this ….

Here’s today’s newsletter …

• 8 Reservations

• 5 Move Ins

• 6 Move Outs

Lets … Do … This ….

Here's what's coming your way today 😎🎯

🤐 A Self Storage Tip - “The Container Self-Storage and Traders Association (CSTA) Industry Report“

🤝 3 Self Storage News Stories

🧐 Yesterday’s Figures For Each Facility

🥸 1 Meme of the Day

Self Storage Tip 💡 💰

So today starts the look at the Container Self-Storage and Traders Association (CSTA) Industry Report 

I love things like this … Ha, as you know 

We’re starting with a look at how many container sites are open and how they have increased over the recent years 

For what it’s worth, I think there is going to be an explosion in container sites opening in the next few years 

Here’s what the report says - 

CONTAINER SELF- STORAGE SITES

• Operators and new entrants are adding additional sites year-on-year.
   

• While the growth in the number of new sites slowed down in 2020-2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the change of lifestyle – and the growth in “Working From Home” – created a surge in self-storage business during those years.
   

• Since 2022, over 60 new sites have been added each year. While in some locations, the availability (and economic cost) of prime site locations may hold back the level of expansion the market demands, this has generally not
  halted overall growth.
   

• The CSTA Census indicates that, at the end of 2025, there were some 1218 container self-storage sites in the UK (calculated on the basis of sites with 20 or more containers).

CONTAINER SELF-STORAGE OPERATING BUSINESSES

New entrants continue to enter the container self-storage industry – attracted by growing demand for self-storage by both domestic and business customers, as well as the economic sustainability of the industry

• The new entrants offer sites ranging from 20 or so containers, up to much larger facilities with 200 units or more.
   

• The 2021 growth (3.7%) reflected strong site openings as the sector prospered during the later stages of Covid and continued thereafter.
   

• The 2022 growth (+4%) aligns with the broader UK GDP rebound, supporting new developments.
   

• The 2023 (+2%) accounts for tightening financial conditions and slower investment.
   

• 2024 and 2025 reflects the continued interest in the opportunities offered by this sector of the self-storage market new entrants into the market.
   

• With the trend to unmanned sites, the low labour requirements of self-storage sites attract business entrepreneurs seeking to combat rising labour costs.
   

• In some locations, the growth is subdued by the challenges of locating available land and securing planning consent

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Industry News 🧐 …

• Crewe storage park becomes business hub for local firms amid rising costs

• Extra Space Storage highlights long-term self-storage demand as a listed real estate platform

• Big Yellow stock holds its focus on storage demand

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Yesterday’s Results -

Willerby (Hull) … My Big Site

• 1 Reservations

• 1 Move Ins

• 2 Move Outs

Month to Date -

• MINUS 25 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 2

Move Ins so far this week = 4

Clough Rd Figures ... The Automated Site

• 4 Reservations

• 0 Move Ins

• 2 Move outs

Month to Date -

• MINUS 280 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 4

Move Ins so far this week = 0

Beverley … My Baby (First Site)

• 1 Reservations

• 0 Move Ins

• 0 Move outs

Month to Date -

• MINUS 130 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 1

Move Ins so far this week = 0

Wrexham's Figures (Indoor) ... My First Acquisition

• 0 Reservation

• 1 Move Ins

• 1 Move Outs

Month to Date -

• PLUS 430 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 0

Move Ins so far this week = 3

Mansfield Figures

• 1 Reservation

• 2 Move Ins

• 0 Move Outs

Month to Date -

• PLUS 425 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 3

Move Ins so far this week = 4

Glasgow

• 1 Reservation

• 1 Move Ins

• 1 Move Outs

Month to Date -

• MINUS 240 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 2

Move Ins so far this week = 1

South Shields

• 0 Reservation

• 0 Move Ins

• 0 Move Outs

Month to Date -

• 0 Sq Ft

Reservations so far this week = 1

Move Ins so far this week = 0

Meme / GIF of the day -  👀😂

Health and Fitness ... Move More = Live Longer - 🏋️‍♀️ 🏃

Weekly goals -

• Gym - 5 times

• Run - 15 miles

Results so far -

• Gym - 0

• Run - 0 Miles

Yesterday’s steps - 20,198

Loads of self storage love,

Dean ❤️ 🙃