Simply Self Storage in Atlanta USA | Photo Collected From Google Maps
Simply Self Storage is one of the “top five private owners of self-storage” and operates a portfolio totalling eight million square feet across the U.S. BREIT currently owns a 253,9 million-euro ($300 million) portfolio of self-storage facilities. Following this acquisition, BREIT will be the third-largest non-listed owner of storage in the U.S, according to the press released by the company.
Frank Cohen, Chairman and CEO of BREIT, said, that «this transaction is a complementary addition to BREIT’s high-quality portfolio of income-generating real estate, which is heavily weighted towards logistics and multifamily primarily in growth markets. Simply Self Storage is a best-in-class company with significant potential for growth through future acquisitions in a highly fragmented sector, and similar to logistics, self-storage is a resilient sector through economic cycles because of low tenant turnover, minimal maintenance costs and stable cash flows. We look forward to continuing to acquire high-quality assets on behalf of our BREIT investors».
Brookfield acquired Simply Self Storage in 2016 in one of its opportunistic real estate funds. Since that time, Brookfield more than doubled the size of the company and helped transform the business into a fully integrated institutional platform. Simply Self Storage has a «robust talent base» and leading technology and processes across its facilities, including revenue management and digital marketing.
More than 90% of BREIT’s real estate investments are in multifamily, industrial, and net leased assets. BREIT has approximately 3,05 billion euro ($3.6 billion) of immediate liquidity to execute on acquisitions of high-quality assets.
This transaction is expected to close prior to the end of 2020, subject to certain customary closing conditions.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is serving as legal advisor to BREIT, and BofA Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are serving as financial advisors to BREIT. RBC Capital Markets LLC, Newmark Group Inc., and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP advised Brookfield.
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