Collect public asking rates
Fetch explicitly allowlisted, robots-permitted public facility pages for validation; require a separate approved source-rights record before research ingestion.
Collection and validation — no numeric index releasedProgram 2026.07 · Methodology 1.0.0
U.S. Self-Storage Public Asking-Rate Index
Within each evidence-qualified geography, the facility-weighted constant-quality change in recurring, publicly advertised online monthly rent among matched, currently available unit configurations observed at covered, identity-verified U.S. self-storage facilities. The program is indexable and its methods are public, but no Storage Units Near Me numeric price series has been released. The connected production legacy tables currently contain zero observed unit-rate records, and the separate append-only public-research schema was not installed at audit time. Fixed internal budget bands are prohibited from entering this research series.
16,580
Canonical facility universe
15,748
Snapshot details with websites
5,211
Unique website domains
0
Rates currently qualified
Research pipeline
From a public quote to a citable index observation
Validate the product
Require a USD price tied to exact dimensions and retain climate, access, floor, availability, promotion, fee, and parser evidence.
Deduplicate and weight
Match the same physical facility and unit across sources, aggregate within facilities, and prevent operators with more listings from dominating.
Estimate with uncertainty
Chain matched-product log price relatives and bootstrap complete facility trajectories for confidence intervals. Any later composition-adjusted sensitivity model must be separately implemented, validated, and named in its release manifest.
Release or suppress
Publish only geographies that pass sample, diversity, matched-panel, missingness, concentration, and precision gates.
National gate
A release must clear every threshold
- Facilities
- 500
- States
- 25
- Operator groups
- 10
- Maximum operator weight
- 35%
- Matched-panel share
- ≥50%
- Maximum relative CI width
- 20%
External validation
BLS gross-rent benchmark retained separately
Federal series WPU431104 contains 210 cached monthly observations. It measures producer gross rents, not the advertised new-customer web rent targeted here, so divergence is analyzed rather than hidden.
163.041
2026-05 · not seasonally adjusted
+1.09% year over year
Why no modeled number appears here
The prior price pages expanded twelve fixed jurisdiction bands and one national fallback across thousands of city labels. Those values were useful only as internal planning assumptions. Repetition, statistical language, or structured data cannot make them observed market evidence, so they are excluded from this research program.