The United Arab Emirates are home to virtually all the self storage facilities in the Middle East, with the majority of them being located in Dubai. Six different companies have emerged there in the last decade who offer self storage space to consumers.
The Danish self storage market is growing rapidly but is still quite small relative to the demand for storage in the UK. Similarly to the market here, there are both converted old buildings and many new-builds.
The US has an enormous self storage industry with about 45,000 facilities compared to the UK’s 1200. This is because self storage has been established in America for a lot longer with their national Self Storage Association having been formed in 1975.
Self storage has progressed through the Anglosphere, only putting down deep roots in the economies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, more recently, the UK. This is what makes the recent appearance of major self storage centres in and around the rest of Europe’s capital cities very interesting.
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