Financial Times - US household confidence at highest level since 2010
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b82ce31c-45b3-11e4-9b71-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3EtsXSvEM
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b82ce31c-45b3-11e4-9b71-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3EtsXSvEM
According to a recent Cushman & Wakefield report, the metro Atlanta market posted 816,300 square feet (sf) of positive absorption during the first quarter driving the overall vacancy rate down to 19% as of the end of March.
An interesting plug for how hot the self storage industry is right now - http://www.globest.com/news/12_928/chicago/industrial/Self-Storage-Development-Getting-New-Life-349530.html?ET=globest:e44052:485240a:&st=email
Here is an interesting piece on manufactured housing that ran recently on CBS Sunday morning: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mobile-homes-more-than-just-a-box-on-wheels/
MJ Real Estate Partners released their quarterly review of the self storage REITs, and the news is good all around: http://mjpartners.com/research/market-reports/mjpartners-market-report-2014-2q.pdf