Noah Starr, TractIQ CEO, breaks down the data from a newsworthy Q1 for Self Storage REITs

Are the days of "speculative underwriting" officially over? I am your host, Thaddeus Campbell, and in this episode of Storage Unlocked, I am joined by Noah Starr (CEO of Tract IQ) to analyze the Q1 2026 REIT earnings reports . We move past the headlines of the $10.5 billion PSA/NSA merger to look at the raw numbers defining the "institutional era" of self-storage . In this episode, I cover: The Performance Gap: Why Extra Space reported +1.2% same-store NOI growth while Public Storage sat at +0.4%, and what that tells us about their competing bridge lending and third-party strategies . The Cost of Capital: What PSA's $500 million raise at 5% signals for future cap rates and why 2% debt is "far behind us" . Institutionalization: How the "Public 4.0" strategy is bringing massive REIT capital into secondary and tertiary markets for the first time . Verified Data: Noah explains how having access to achieved rates and occupancy for $50B in assets is allowing operators to make "defensible" decisions . Market Cycles: Why today's normalized rates and cash-flowing assets may represent a healthier entry point than the 2021-2022 frenzy . Tune in to get the data you need to thrive in a market that is no longer waiting for interest rates to drop. Connect with Thaddeus Campbell (S3 Partners):
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