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Self storage finance across the UK

Market data and funding for 245 towns across 59 counties and 11 UK regions.

We arrange finance for self storage facilities across the UK. Industry data is published nationally by SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield, so each region hub below carries the national benchmarks plus its own regional narrative, and every town page adds genuinely local signals: Land Registry housing transactions, council planning applications for storage use and the operators present. Choose a region for the market picture, or a county for its towns.

By region

UK self storage regions

Each region hub carries its market narrative, with figures attributed to their sources.

East Midlands

Nottingham, Leicester and Derby give the East Midlands a three-city storage core, with affordable land that has made the region a proving ground for container storage businesses.

29 towns

East of England

Average storage rate £33.90/sq ft (SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025).

30 towns

Greater London

Average storage rate £44.07/sq ft (SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025).

10 towns

North East

Newcastle, Sunderland and Teesside form a compact storage market where affordable land and low competition give well-run stores strong local positions.

18 towns

North West

Manchester and Liverpool anchor the largest self storage market in the north, with strong city-centre conversion activity and a deep pipeline of container sites across the M62 belt.

30 towns

Scotland

Glasgow and Edinburgh dominate Scottish self storage, with the central belt recording the strongest occupancy growth of any UK region in the 2025 industry report.

18 towns

South East

Average storage rate £33.90/sq ft (SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025).

35 towns

South West

Bristol leads the South West storage market, with strong lifestyle-driven demand along the M4 and M5 and a long tail of coastal and market towns served by container sites.

20 towns

Wales

Cardiff, Newport and Swansea along the M4 are the core of the Welsh storage market, with Storage Giant's growth showing what regional operators can build here.

8 towns

West Midlands

Birmingham and its conurbation form the central UK storage market, where a large renting population and motorway-junction sites support both indoor stores and container parks.

27 towns

Yorkshire and the Humber

Leeds and Sheffield anchor Yorkshire's storage market, with strong conversion activity in the cities and container growth across the M62 and A1 corridors.

20 towns

By county

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Aberdeenshire1 town Bedfordshire4 towns Berkshire5 towns Bristol2 towns Buckinghamshire3 towns Cambridgeshire4 towns Cardiff1 town Cheshire7 towns Cornwall2 towns County Durham5 towns Cumbria3 towns Derbyshire5 towns Devon4 towns Dorset2 towns East Riding of Yorkshire5 towns East Sussex2 towns Essex8 towns Fife3 towns Flintshire2 towns Glasgow1 town Gloucestershire3 towns Greater London10 towns Greater Manchester9 towns Hampshire6 towns Herefordshire1 town Hertfordshire6 towns Kent8 towns Lanarkshire5 towns Lancashire7 towns Leicestershire6 towns Lincolnshire5 towns Lothian4 towns Merseyside4 towns Newport1 town Norfolk4 towns North Yorkshire4 towns Northamptonshire7 towns Northumberland3 towns Nottinghamshire5 towns Oxfordshire4 towns Renfrewshire2 towns Rutland1 town Shropshire2 towns Somerset4 towns South Yorkshire4 towns Staffordshire7 towns Stirlingshire2 towns Suffolk4 towns Surrey4 towns Swansea3 towns Teesside5 towns Tyne and Wear5 towns Warwickshire5 towns West Midlands County7 towns West Sussex3 towns West Yorkshire7 towns Wiltshire3 towns Worcestershire5 towns Wrexham1 town

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