We arrange funding for self storage facilities across the whole lifecycle: acquisition finance, bridging, development finance, mezzanine, equity and joint venture capital, and long-term debt.
Self storage is one of the strongest operational real estate stories in the UK, and it is capital-hungry at every stage. The right facility is rarely the cheapest headline rate. It is the one that completes on time, carries the store through its occupancy build-up and refinances cleanly onto long-term debt. We arrange that facility.
We work with operators, investors and developers across the country. We arrange the acquisition finance that buys an existing store or trading business, the bridging that secures a site or an auction purchase quickly, the development finance that funds a ground-up store or a conversion, the mezzanine and equity that complete the capital stack, and the commercial mortgages and term debt that hold a trading store for the long run.
Self storage is underwritten differently from tenanted commercial property. There is no lease covenant to lean on: lenders read the trading income, the occupancy curve, the net achieved rate per square foot and the operator behind them. Because we sit across more than one hundred lender relationships, we know which desks genuinely back storage, at what leverage and on what terms. That is the work.
Seven products covering the whole self storage lifecycle, used alone or in sequence.
We arrange funding to buy an existing self storage facility or trading storage business anywhere in the UK.
Learn moreWe arrange long-term commercial mortgages and term loans secured on trading self storage facilities.
Learn moreWe arrange fast, short-term bridging loans secured on self storage sites and storage businesses across the UK.
Learn moreWe arrange funding for ground-up self storage builds, conversions of existing buildings and phased fit-out.
Learn moreWe arrange junior debt that sits behind the senior facility and stretches your funding on a self storage development or investment.
Learn moreWe introduce equity partners and structure joint ventures for self storage developers and operators across the UK.
Learn moreWe arrange refinancing that unlocks the value a trading self storage facility has built up.
Learn moreEvery facility type is underwritten differently. We know which lenders back each one.
Funding for ground-up, institutional-grade self storage stores, from the first development facility through to a commercial mortgage on stabilised trading income.
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Funding to buy an existing building and convert it into a trading self storage facility, from acquisition through fit-out to a term refinance.
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Funding for shipping-container self storage on open land, the lowest-cost and fastest entry route into the storage business.
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Funding for single-storey drive-up self storage parks, where customers park directly at the door of their own storage unit.
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Funding for city-centre and inner-urban multi-level stores, from office and retail conversions to flagship purpose-built facilities.
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Funding for stores where trade counters, e-commerce stock, document archives and office space form a large share of the income.
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Funding for multi-site platforms, from cross-collateralised facilities to the acquisition and refinance of whole operator groups.
Learn moreWe ground every appraisal in published industry research. A snapshot of the national picture:
Industry figures are reported nationally by the research houses; yields reflect prime assets and vary by store, location and trading maturity. Sources: SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield, Savills, FEDESSA / CBRE, Big Yellow Group, Safestore, Shurgard, PSL Limited.
We track self storage and container storage planning applications across more than 60 UK council planning portals. 99 self storage and 62 container storage applications are currently in the dataset. The most recent:
Application to determine if prior approval is required for change of use of part of existing steel portal framed agricultural building to a flexible commercial use (self-storage B8) under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R
Change of use of land to site self-storage containers (Use Class B8) (retrospective)
Redevelopment of Site to provide new self-storage facility (Use Class B8), new flexible workspace / incubator units (Use Class E(g)(iii)) and other works ancillary to the development. This application is linked to application 26/00567/NONMAT which seeks amendments to planning con
Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for confirmation that the planning permission AWDM/2128/21 commenced prior to the 3-year expiry in accordance with Condition 1 by the laying out and construction of part of an access road, relating to development of 53 single storey Cla
Submission of asbestos details pursuant to condition 6 of permission 25/02292/PAP3R. Change of use of part of an agricultural building to a self-storage use (Use Class B8) within the provisions of Class R of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the GPDO 2015 (as amended)
Submission of EVCP details pursuant to condition 5 of permission 25/02292/PAP3R. Change of use of part of an agricultural building to a self-storage use (Use Class B8) within the provisions of Class R of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the GPDO 2015 (as amended).
Variation of Conditions 3 (vehicular access hours) and 6 (restricted use of site) of planning permission 25/01375/CONDIT - The proposed amendment to Condition 3 would allow altered and extended hours/days of vehicular access to the site, including the loading/unloading of vehicle
Change of use of land to a self-storage facility comprising of siting of shipping containers and associated works. (Retrospective)
Source: council planning registers (Idox portals), dataset updated 9 June 2026. Applications are a development-activity signal; inclusion does not imply any connection to us.
More than one hundred lender relationships across banks, challenger banks, debt funds and specialist lenders.
Self storage is underwritten on EBITDA, occupancy and rate, not a lease covenant. We package deals the way storage desks read them.
Acquisition, bridging, development, mezzanine, equity introductions and term debt, arranged alone or in sequence.
An arranger and introducer working for the borrower, not a single lender.
We fund the build, then the occupancy build-up, then the refinance onto term debt. The full journey.
SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield industry data, Savills yield research and live council planning feeds frame every appraisal.
We read the site or store, the trading income, the business plan and your timescale, and tell you what is fundable and on what terms.
We shortlist the desks most likely to back the asset at the leverage you need.
We package the deal, run it to the panel and negotiate heads of terms on your behalf.
We manage valuation, monitoring surveyor and legals through to completion or first drawdown.
“Arranging finance for operational property like self storage is something I have done for over 25 years. Every deal still comes through me personally: the structuring, the packaging, the credit conversations, the legals and the drawdown. Clients are not handed off. They get answers.
Send us the outline and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms within one working day.
