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- Despite its recent growth, cold storage remains a specialized sector with unique challenges.
- Over the past three years, the cap-rate gap between cold storage and traditional warehouses has narrowed from 200 basis points to 75.
- Transaction volume for U.S. cold storage facilities has increased at an annual rate of 6.2% since 2014.
- Historically, there have not been many institutional investors interested in the cold-storage sector. That has changed recently though.