Self storage finance in the Greater London

Created in 1965 and made up of 32 boroughs plus the City of London, Greater London is England's most populous ceremonial county with around 9.1 million residents. We arrange the full range of self storage finance across the Greater London, from the acquisition finance and commercial mortgages that buy and hold a trading store to the bridging, development, mezzanine and equity behind a build, a conversion or a container site. Self storage market data is published nationally by SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield, so the figures above are presented as clearly-labelled benchmarks, with the regional rate attributed to its source, while the housing-transaction figure is genuinely local Land Registry data for the towns we track.

London carries the strongest storage rates in the UK, at an average of £44.07 per sq ft on the SSA UK and Cushman & Wakefield 2025 report, against a national average of £27.40 on the 2026 edition. The listed operators concentrate their flagship multi-storey stores here, planning is hardest, and land competes with residential and last-mile logistics. For lenders that mix makes London stores the most institutionally bid assets in the sector, and for developers it makes site assembly and change of use the core challenge.

On capital values, the strongest public evidence comes from the listed operators' external valuations: Big Yellow's London and commuter-town weighted stores were valued at £458/sq ft of lettable area and its regional Armadillo stores at £185/sq ft (Big Yellow FY2026 results (JLL-valued), Mar 2026), with Safestore's UK estate at about ~£364/sq ft on a derived basis (Safestore FY2025 results (Cushman & Wakefield-valued), Oct 2025). The evidenced span from regional secondary to prime London and the South East runs at roughly £185 to £460/sq ft, on a going-concern trading basis rather than vacant possession.

Benchmark figures from SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025; SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield; Savills, European Self Storage Spotlight. Regional commentary draws on SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield (UK Annual Industry Report, 2025); Savills (European Self Storage Spotlight, Q4 2025).