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Wanted: sites for caravan & rec vehicle storage – The demographics could say it all.

By |2024-04-22T19:09:35+10:0005/12/2021|Investing Ideas, Investments Ideas, Truck storage & Rentals|

Trends Ageing demographics makes for an interesting future-investment, proposition. From the demographics it looks like the caravan storage industry is in for a bumper time. Over the next 20 years Australians are retiring in considerable numbers. According to the caravan industry association of Australia in their 2020 industry report, “there is a reasonably strong correlation between the percentage of the [...]

Highway-fronting property can lock-in extra value

By |2024-04-22T19:09:36+10:0002/06/2021|Freehold Investments, Investing Ideas, Investments Ideas|

  Morayfield auto centre Today in  Morayfield stands this newly built cutting edge highway property service centre. We committed Taco Bells & United Petrol to the site to fit alongside the existing Anaconda. Prior to that, stood a 20 year old homemaker centre with showrooms  vacant &  had been available for lease for many years. The owners had [...]

Why is self-storage such a popular investment?

By |2024-04-22T19:09:37+10:0026/04/2021|Freehold Investments, Investing Ideas, Self-Storage updates|

  Self-storage businesses are stable, passive and in demand. The self-storage industry has grown from a cottage industry in the 1980s, where families would build and manage an independent facility, to a billion-dollar industry increasingly dominated by large companies that manage and own facilities. There are around 1000 self-storage facilities Australia-wide. There are two components to a self-storage facility. The [...]

Wellcamp (Toowoomba) Qld: Investing Nirvana?

By |2024-04-22T19:10:39+10:0018/04/2021|Investing Ideas|

It's hard not to get excited about the Toowoomba-Wellcamp region. With the Darling Downs food bowl to the east and the  Surat Basin energy sector to the west. In 2025 one of the largest ever infrastructure projects is coming right into Wellcamp. The inland rail will be delivering freight in an out of Toowoomba from Melbourne and Sydney and connections [...]

Newcastle NSW: Mega Logistic & extra-ordinary.

By |2024-04-22T19:10:42+10:0015/04/2021|Investing Ideas|

  With one of Australia’s largest bulk ports and a thriving international airport, Newcastle is also serviced by a rail and road infrastructure with direct links to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the surrounding giant Hunter Valley agricultural and mining regions. This magic  combination of air, rail, road, and sea facilities is rare both nationally and internationally.  So rare, in fact, [...]

Morayfield Qld -Taco Bell & United Fuels opens 2 new outlets

By |2024-04-22T19:10:47+10:0018/11/2020|Investing Ideas|

Morayfield, a fast-growing suburb 44 kilometres north of Brisbane, has been chosen as the site of Queensland’s newest Taco Bell. With this Morayfield development has seen a boost. The restaurant was pre-leased in a new highway service centre at 182-190 Morayfield Rd. Originally the owner decided to sell this fantastic, high-profile 6500 sqm site, and instructed us to [...]

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Income-generating properties ideas#2 — Storage Website Portal discussion & review

By |2024-04-22T19:11:24+10:0023/04/2020|Investing Ideas|

I’m writing this in early April 2020, and right now, we’re all spending more and more time at home. This has meant changes for all of us. It’s also changed the way people transact their everyday purchases. With google only 1 meter away, we are moving towards a self-serving society. No wonder we are resistant to making a [...]

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Income-generating properties ideas #3 — Fast Food & Petrol Review

By |2024-04-22T19:11:27+10:0022/04/2020|Investing Ideas|

By Rob Stanley-Turner: Fast food & petrol retailers are wanting highway-fronting sites for their businesses. The one ingredient they all need is highway fronting sites, all over Australia.  This factor made me think, that you may have a site which I could offer to them. Operators like these are wanting sites like this one in Milton all over [...]

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Are these the glory days for Self Storage property owners?

By |2024-04-22T19:11:35+10:0002/09/2019|Investing Ideas|

By Rob Stanley-Turner: I was so shocked I spilt my coffee. This is huge news: Abacus has taken a stake in National Self Storage. This has the potential to fundamentally change the self-storage market in Australia. Abacus Property Group and National Self Storage are two of the Big Four self-storage players. If this shareholding is a step towards Abacus attempting [...]

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Investment property search

By |2024-04-22T19:11:36+10:0004/09/2018|Investing Ideas|

By Rob Stanley-Turner: June 2018: Investment property search: Undertaking Road trip in search of new investment property. We are searching for Self Storage, pubs and clubs, hotels and other quality income producing investment property suitable for us to assemble a group of investors to purchase and hold. Also we are also looking for high profile sites to suit many retailers [...]

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The 2018 UK Highway-Retailing Trend Tour: Self Storage. Manchester UK

By |2024-04-22T19:11:38+10:0004/09/2018|Investing Ideas|

By Rob Stanley-Turner: Here the largest UK Self Storage operator, Safestore and there largest stand-alone facility of around 9000 sqm and 1000 units. A most impressive facility. Safestore has 146 stores including 120 self-storage centres in the UK and a further 26 stores in the Paris region. Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business [...]

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