450,000
trade areas screened
Every three mile pocket in the country, checked against your buy box.
AI deal sourcing for self-storage
Find your next self-storage development deal in seconds.
Enter your buy box. Beacon screens 450,000 trade areas across the country and returns the sites that fit, zoned for storage by right, with the municipal code linked.
What Beacon is
Beacon is the deal sourcing tool for self-storage developers and acquisition teams.
Built on rate, supply, pipeline, and occupancy data across 450,000 trade areas.
Trade area data
The data behind every match.
Beacon starts from your buy box and returns the trade areas that fit. Every match carries rents, supply, pipeline, demographics, housing starts, and occupancy history.
| 10x10 | CC | $154 |
| 10x10 | NCC | $129 |
| 5x5 | CC | $77 |
First floor
Elevator
Every unit size, climate and non-climate, first floor or upper, with promotions tracked.
4.1 acresBrokerage listing
2.6 acresOff-market parcel
Land and facilities from 30+ brokerage websites and aggregators, layered onto your markets.
Supply below MSA
Rates above MSA
Supply, rates, income, and growth benchmarked, with flags on what stands out.
Planned / proposed740 units
Upcoming410 units
Under construction265 units
Permits reveal where population is about to grow, market by market.
By right
Municipal code linked
Know in seconds if a property allows storage, municipal code linked.
12 months agoNow
We watch every unit come on and off the market. Years of that history predict occupancy across the country.
How it works
The old way still runs on manual screening.
You pay for two or three data subscriptions, pull county records you only half trust, and drive markets to confirm what the spreadsheet suggested. Most teams look hard at about 20 trade areas a year. The country has 450,000.
Hotspot search
Find the market.
Olympus Ventures went from six LOIs in a year to four in their first few months by screening a North Carolina market a thousand miles from their office.
Population Above 40.0K
Median income Above $75.0K
10 by 10 rate Above $160
Supply Below 6 square feet
Three year growth Above 3.0%
Coastal growth area
01Population92K to 164KRate range$148 to $186
River bend area
02Population118K to 209KRate range$136 to $174
South ridge area
03Population71K to 123KRate range$142 to $179
Listings and zoning
Find the property.
Citadel Development Partners sent a letter of intent two weeks after entering their criteria for land in the Texas Triangle.
3
of 12 listed
0.6 AC
NOT BY RIGHT
ALAMO RANCH · 2.1 AC
SCHERTZ EAST · 1.4 AC
BULVERDE ROAD · 5.0 AC
In any matched market, Beacon returns the opportunities you actually want.
Same day alerts
Find it first.
Global Storage Partners sent seven to nine LOIs in its first year, with one New York facility sourced entirely through PropRise.
SAME DAY ALERTS
Commerce Loop parcel matched the Coastal Acquisition buy box.
MATCHED BUY BOXMarket Road parcel matched the Inland Growth buy box.
MATCHED BUY BOXIndustrial Way parcel matched the Expansion buy box.
MATCHED BUY BOX
Storage teams are finding real deals this way.
From matching criteria to deals under contract.
01
Go Store It
Go Store It matched a New Jersey trade area to their buy box, and the deal a broker surfaced there was put under contract.
Read the Go Store It story 02Citadel Development Partners
Citadel Development Partners sent a letter of intent on Texas Triangle land two weeks after entering their criteria.
Read the Citadel story 03Olympus Ventures
Olympus Ventures went from six LOIs in a year to four in their first few months on Beacon, including one on a three-acre plot the platform flagged in an emerging North Carolina market a thousand miles from their office.
Read the Olympus story
"What would have taken us an entire week to research manually, PropRise accomplished in minutes. It's not just about saving time; it's about uncovering opportunities we might have missed otherwise."
Shimon Kanter, VP of Development at Go Store It
Find your next facility using Beacon Signals.
STACK THE SIGNALS OPERATORS MISS.
NO WEB PRESENCE
No website, or no rates published online.
STATIC RATES
Web rates unchanged for 90 days or more.
BELOW MARKET
10x10 rates under the trade area average, in dollars and percent.
OCCUPANCY READS
Low occupancy, or full at below-market rates.
ROOM TO BUILD
Unused acreage and low lot coverage on the parcel.
ONE EXAMPLE
10x10 street rates over twelve months
TRADE AREA
THIS FACILITY
Falling rates and low occupancy indicate an under-managed facility, not a lease-up.
FAQ
Questions storage teams ask.
Is Beacon a replacement for Radius, StorTrack, or Yardi, or does it run alongside them?
Some teams replace their data subscription outright. Others keep one running alongside Beacon for extra coverage. Either way, Beacon is where sourcing happens: it starts from your buy box and returns the markets and properties that fit, which is the part no data platform does.
We already know our markets. What would Beacon add?
Knowing your home markets is exactly how deals get missed everywhere else. Most teams track about 20 trade areas closely. Beacon screens 450,000. Olympus found deals in markets they were not even aware of, all matching their buy box.
What is a hotspot?
Beacon draws millions of three mile circles across the country and checks each one against your buy box: population, demographics, rental rates, supply. Where matching circles overlap, they merge into a hotspot. A hotspot is smaller than a city and sharper than a block group. It marks the specific neighborhood where your criteria hold.
Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it?
Street rates refresh every 48 hours. Listings come in daily from more than 30 brokerage websites and aggregators. Supply, pipeline, and demographic data cover 450,000 trade areas. Zoning reads link straight to the municipal code, not to county parcel guesses.
We build ground-up. Does it find land?
Yes. Layer land listings and off-market parcels onto your matching markets. Beacon shows whether each property is zoned for storage by right and links to the municipal code for that jurisdiction.
How long until we get value from it?
Within the first five minutes of a demo call. We walk through your buy box live and Beacon surfaces markets you were not aware of. There is no setup project: enter your criteria and search.
What does it cost?
Pricing depends on your team and markets. We share exact numbers on the demo, after you have seen Beacon on your own market.
We have an analyst who does this.
Keep them. Beacon replaces the screening grind, not judgment. Your analyst reviews markets that fit instead of clicking through maps hunting for them. Uplift cut time spent on initial site assessments by 70% without adding anyone.