Huber: Aggregating small real estate assets raises valuations through institutional demand
Nick Huber · How Nick Huber Built His Wealth: From Sweaty Startup to Real Estate Investor · Dec 22, 2022 · at 26:01
Real estate investor Nick Huber explains the economic logic behind rolling up small self-storage facilities to Greg Isenberg.
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“And when you have a bigger portfolio, you have less risk. You have economies of scale and you have appetite from new buyers, new people, new money with cheaper cost of capital, bigger players come in and buy tranches of bigger assets. So the values go up when that happens.”
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