Value Store It buys two Palm Beach County properties for $35M

Facilities are in Jupiter and near Greenacres

Value Store It President Carlos Diaz with the two properties (Diaz)
Value Store It President Carlos Diaz with the two properties (Diaz)

Value Store It Management paid $35.3 million for two self-storage facilities in Palm Beach County.

Value Store It bought the properties at 1400 West Indiantown Road in Jupiter for $17.3 million and 2909 South Military Avenue in unincorporated Palm Beach County near Greenacres for $18.1 million, company president Carlos Diaz said.

Jupiter Self Storage LLC, based in South Carolina, sold the 95,502-square-foot, 672-unit Jupiter facility. That property, built in 2019 across 1.6 acres, is 75 percent leased. Rodney Langer of Investors CRE brokered this deal.

Irvine, California-based Trico Investments, through an affiliate, sold the 156,934-square-foot, 1,163-unit facility near Greenacres. The property, built in 2018 on a 4-acres site, is 90 percent leased. Morgan Windbiel of CBRE brokered this deal.

Fort Lauderdale-based Value Store It, which owns and operates roughly 2 million square feet of self-storage in South Florida and Massachusetts, was founded in 2009 but has been building its portfolio since 2003, Diaz said. It buys, managers and develops self-storage. It also has developed in New York and Connecticut but sold these buildings, Diaz said.

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The recent expansion was prompted by the self-storage demand created by the population influx into South Florida. The region has been a magnet for Northeasterners over the past year.

The properties are in areas where Diaz predicts residential growth will continue.

“Lifestyle changes are what drives activity in the self-storage market,” he added.

In 2018, Value Store It bought a property at 2250 North Powerline Road in Pompano Beach for $10 million, which it still owns.

Others also are investing in the asset class. In April, CubeSmart bought a Weston facility at 1500 North Park Drive for $11.5 million.