TractIQ, a data and market-intelligence platform serving the self-storage industry, is partnering with commercial real estate analytics firm CRED iQ to provide operating performance data for underwriting purposes. Brokers, developers, investors, lenders and operators can use the platform’s verified, borrower-reported, facility-level information, including occupancy trends and historical financial performance (rental income, operating expenses and net operating income), in their workflows. The data is sourced from commercial-mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) disclosures from self-storage facilities, which are relied upon by lenders, rating agencies and institutional investors to evaluate credit risk and asset performance, according to a press release.
While similar levels of transparency are available across other institutional asset classes, it has historically been absent in self-storage. Market participants were forced to rely on proxy signals like advertised rates, supply pipelines, demographic trends and anecdotal guidance without visibility into how individual self-storage facilities were actually performing, , according to the release.
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“This marks a real shift for the self-storage industry,” said Noah Starr, CEO of TractIQ. “Bringing real, reported operating data into a storage-first platform sets the standard for how deals are underwritten, financed and priced. We’re grateful to partner with CRED iQ, whose institutional-grade CMBS data and analytical rigor make this level of transparency possible. Once verified operating performance is available at scale, underwriting without it is no longer defensible.”
“Self-storage has become a meaningful institutional asset class, but access to verified operating performance has lagged other sectors,” said Michael Haas, CEO of CRED iQ. “We are excited to partner with TractIQ to bring CMBS-based occupancy and financial performance data into a platform built specifically for self-storage. This integration provides a more rigorous and consistent foundation for evaluating assets.”
The data resulting from the partnership will be available to TractIQ Pro+ customers. Additional enhancements and expanded analytics are planned throughout 2026.
TractIQ tracks more than 70,000 self-storage facilities nationwide, providing access to data including market demographics, rental-rate history, supply-and-demand dynamics and more.
CRED iQ is an authorized market-data provider covering the full universe of securitized loans and all commercial property types. It specializes in credit, performance and risk intelligence derived from CMBS and institutional real estate disclosures.
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