With over 28 years in real estate, I’ve seen and solved most of the problems that arise in marketing and selling commercial properties.   When I started my career, the industry experts said I would need to complete 100 deals to experience all the various types of deals.  I’ve successfully completed over 500 commercial transactions.

Owners and clients of self storage properties are the most important people in my practice.  To them it's critical they bond with a trustworthy, competent partner.  Afterall they are placing their life long work in the hands of a real estate expert  to market and sell  their asset ensuring  their financial objectives are met. 

Undoubtedly in self storage, the client’s business is normally very successful.   Its a  matter of understanding how they  built and maintain their revenue and then use my skills to market their benchmark successes attracting the highest paying investor the market will offer.

Hearing an owner say “yes Tom I want you to sell my property’” is always welcomed news in my daily work, but delivering the right process bringing the transaction to a successful close and pleasing the client is the most rewarding experience in my profession.  Since co founding the Colliers Self Storage Investment Platform in 2014, Tom and his team  have closed on more than $1 billion in self storage transactions. 

Matt Davis is a Senior Vice President with Colliers International’s Self Storage Group. His primary business focus is representing institutions, partnerships and individuals in the acquisition and disposition of self storage assets across the United States and Canada.

Matt’s 24+ years of real estate valuation work, along with his experience and market knowledge across most commercial and industrial real estate classes, gives him the ability to provide owners an accurate measure of how today’s investment market values their asset(s).

Mr. Davis’ efforts are primarily focused on the self storage industry; however, given his years of valuation experience across all asset classes, Matt also has the expertise to represent sellers who own other real estate in Northeast Ohio (i.e. retail, office, industrial, multifamily, etc.).

Andy brings attention to detail and a passion for in-depth research to his work with the Capital Markets team. His background in urban planning combined with several years of professional experience make him competent and qualified to understand clients’ needs and goals. In June of 2021, he transitioned into his current role as an Associate with the Top-Producing Gustafson-Davis Self-Storage Team where he has developed skills in analyzing, underwriting, and marketing self-storage assets. He is an expert at utilizing property and market data to promote the Self-Storage team's skills and effectiveness in delivering the highest quality market valuations across the US and Canada.

Andy is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s School of Planning. His previous work experiences involved marketing and fundraising, infrastructure improvements, and economic development plans to sustain low-cost high-impact programs in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. When he began working with Colliers in 2019 as a Research Analyst he was vital in the support of their +20-person brokerage team implementing an internal lease comp database, publishing quarterly reports, and introducing new software and applications for mapping, demographics, and property data.  Andy and the Gustafson-Davis team take pride in their expertise regarding the self-storage asset class.