Safestore
National chain · distance Unknown · last check today
Open signals
0Nothing open. Silence is the usual and correct answer here: published prices move once or twice a year, so most weeks the only honest output is that nothing changed.
Financial position
Published resultsNo reported year is on file yet
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: Nothing reads an annual report or an RNS today. The Companies House collectors deliberately do not open accounts documents, and the news check stores headlines rather than figures. Until those rows are written this stays empty rather than estimated, because a plausible revenue figure is worse than no revenue figure.
Would fill it: One observation per reported period, keyed financials:<period end>, carrying revenueMinor, likeForLikeGrowthPct and closingOccupancyPct, with the annual report or the results RNS as its source URL. Two periods is enough to show the growth between them.
Filing punctuality
No register profile has been read
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: No Companies House number is confirmed on this record, so every register check skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Vault never resolves a name to a number, because names do not resolve.
Would fill it: The Companies House profile check: status, incorporation date, the accounts made-up-to date, the next due date and the published overdue flag.
Corporate register
No company is attached to this competitor
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: Vault never resolves a name to a number. Entity resolution cannot be automated here: the name Loc It Up alone resolves to a dissolved company and to an unrelated Hampshire one.
Would fill it: An eight character Companies House number, typed in by a person who has opened the company on the register and satisfied themselves it is this business. That unlocks the profile, filings, charges, officers and PSC checks in one go.
Commercial terms
0The things that actually decide whether a customer picks them over us. A term that is not published still gets a row, because "they do not publish a deposit" is itself information a customer notices.
No published rate has been read
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: Either the pages checked publish no price, or the price check has not run yet. The source coverage table below says which.
Would fill it: Their published price list: the rate for each size, the period it covers, and the VAT basis printed with it.
Terms as published
Deposit
Not published
A deposit can outweigh a small rate gap over a short stay, and a price table never shows it.
Minimum term
Not published
A shorter minimum than ours is a product difference, not a price difference.
Notice period
Not published
Insurance
Not published
Cover is roughly a tenth of industry turnover. A rival cheaper on rent who charges for cover can be dearer overall.
Insurance compulsory
Not parsed
Access hours
Not published
Whether cover is compulsory sits in their written terms, which Vault does not parse, so that row says not parsed rather than guessing from the presence of a premium. Where a term shows a range, different sizes on their page published different values. Access hours come off their Google business profile when that check is set up; CCTV is table stakes across the industry, so hours are the real differentiator.
Ancillary lines
No ancillary lines have been read
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: Either they publish no such lines, or the storefront checks have not run. Materials and merchandise are about a twenty-fifth of industry turnover, so this is worth having.
Would fill it: The one-off items alongside storage: containers for sale, packing materials, padlocks and van hire. A Shopify storefront publishes the lot in a structured feed, free.
Availability
No availability statement has been read
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: The pages checked never stated availability. Most operators publish none: of 43 local hosts tested only 3 expose any availability at all, and the nearest rival gates every unit type behind an enquiry form.
Would fill it: Sold-out badges on their own page, counted: how many sizes were shown as unavailable out of how many sizes were on the page.
Counts, never a percentage. Nobody in this market publishes occupancy, so there is no occupancy figure on this page and no modelled one either. Read these as the competitor's own marketing copy rather than as a stock system: a yard can badge a size sold out to create urgency, or leave a badge up long after a unit frees up. A row here is a state that persisted, which is why it carries a confirmation count rather than a single date.
Growth signals
What runs ahead of a competitor actually opening something. Planning is the one with a real head start: the median Swansea decision takes 55 days, and a build takes months after that.
Planning applications attributed to them
No application is attributed to this competitor
Why, and what would fill it
Blocking it: The planning ring is swept for the whole catchment rather than per competitor, because an application for a site nobody has heard of is the point of it. Applications only appear here once somebody attributes one to this record. Nothing is inferred from a name matching an applicant.
Would fill it: A planning application on the catchment ring that a person has tied to this operator: the reference, the authority, the address, the description and the status as published.
New pages on their site
873 URLs nowBaseline captured 8 Aug 2026: 873 URLs, confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026. There is nothing to compare it with yet, so no page is new. The first capture is never reported as a change.
News
25 items mention them, 8 confirmed as this company, last checked 8 Aug 2026.
- Gunnebo Safe Storage launches new SafeStore Auto updates - Security Journal UKSecurity Journal UK, 15 Oct 2025
- Hundreds of bottles of party drug GBL found in Big Yellow Self Storage and Safestore lockers - London Evening StandardLondon Evening Standard, 1 Aug 2023
- Safestore returns to underlying earnings growth - Sharecast.comSharecast.com, 11 Jun 2026unconfirmed
- Mayor officially opens new Safestore at Watford Riverwell - www.watford.gov.ukwww.watford.gov.uk, 27 Jun 2026unconfirmed
- Safestore Dividend Growth Record Backs a Quiet Value Case - ABC MoneyABC Money, 2 Aug 2026unconfirmed
- Safestore returns to earnings growth as expansion progresses - Property WeekProperty Week, 11 Jun 2026unconfirmed
- Safestore Holdings Plc 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation (OTCMKTS:SFSHF) 2026-06-11 - Seeking AlphaSeeking Alpha, 11 Jun 2026unconfirmed
- Burberry & Safestore: Big director share deals - Investors' ChronicleInvestors' Chronicle, 3 Jul 2026unconfirmed
- Safestore gets green light for south London self-storage scheme - Property WeekProperty Week, 20 Jan 2026
Identity
- Kind
- National chain
- Website
- safestore.co.uk
- Platform
- Custom
- Distance
- Unknown
- Postcode
- Unknown
- Google place ID
- Unknown
Seeded from the 2026-08 Swansea price research. Companies House number needs human confirmation.
Companies House identity
No number confirmed, so every register check skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Add it below once you have opened the company on the register and satisfied yourself it is this business.
A chain above the small company threshold does publish revenue, but it publishes it in its results rather than on the register. The financial position panel says exactly which document each figure came from.
Tracking
Switching tracking off also switches off every check above, so nothing is fetched. Nothing is deleted.
Record history
No recorded changes yet.
Source coverage for this competitor
2 of 11 runningEvery check that could apply, whether it is set up or not. A check with no row is not an oversight to be discovered later: the reason it is absent is on the line.
| Check | How often | Last run | Status | What it said, or why it does not run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap URL setA weekly set-diff of their page list. New location pages are how a new branch shows up before it is announced. | weekly | today | OK | Nothing has changed since 8 Aug 2026 |
| Prices and availabilityPublished asking prices, the terms printed beside them, and any sold-out badges. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No check is set up for this competitor yet. |
| Shopify price listTheir whole structured price list, including ancillary lines such as packing materials and containers for sale. | Not set up | Never | Absent | Only applies to a Shopify storefront. This one runs on Custom. |
| Companies House profileStatus, incorporation, accounts punctuality and insolvency history. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No confirmed company number, so this skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Vault never resolves a name to a number. |
| Companies House filingsWhat they filed and when, which is how the accounts dates below stay current. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No confirmed company number, so this skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Vault never resolves a name to a number. |
| Companies House chargesSecured borrowing, with the lender named. The best expansion-finance signal obtainable for free. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No confirmed company number, so this skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Vault never resolves a name to a number. |
| Officers and PSCDirectors and the people who actually own it, which is also how two apparently separate rivals turn out to be one family. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No confirmed company number, so this skips with NO_COMPANY_NUMBER. Vault never resolves a name to a number. |
| Planning applicationsApplications on a catchment ring. The median Swansea decision takes 55 days and the build takes months after that. | Not set up | Never | Absent | Watched for the whole catchment rather than per competitor, because an application from an operator nobody has heard of is the point of it. |
| NewsCoverage of the chains. Google News returns zero items for every local operator tested. | weekly | today | OK | Nothing has changed since 8 Aug 2026 |
| Google business profileOpening hours, temporary closure and photo count. Review text and ratings are never stored. | Not set up | Never | Absent | No Google place ID on record. The place ID is the only Maps field that may be stored indefinitely, and it is what this check keys on. |
| CaSSOA accredited yardsAccredited caravan and motorhome yards, their grade and their published annual price. | Not set up | Never | Absent | A directory of accredited caravan and motorhome yards rather than a per competitor feed. It matters where the yard takes vehicles. |
Deliberately not checked, and why
- A Stora or Storeganise storefront is never crawled. Those platforms are Vault's direct commercial rival and they host several tracked competitors and Loc It Up itself. Their Companies House checks still run, because that is an official government API rather than their server.
- Companies House waits on a human confirmed number. A wrong number would attribute another company's filings, charges and directors to this competitor, and a name does not resolve to a company.
- Review text, ratings and review counts are never stored. The Maps terms name that as prohibited scraping. The place ID is the only field that may be kept, and at a dozen reviews a year review velocity says nothing anyway.
- Raw HTML is never diffed. Two fetches of the same page seconds apart differ because the session token rotates, so a page diff is a false alarm every single week. Sets of URLs and structured parses are compared instead.
- Social posts are not collected. The platforms these yards actually post their offers on are closed to us, and a listening tool for six businesses that generate almost no mentions is not worth its price.
- No health score is computed for a named business. Every figure here is either printed on a page we read or filed on a public register, and an inference drawn from figures Vault itself flags as unverified is a commercial assertion about a real company.
Everything observed, newest first
27Gunnebo Safe Storage launches new SafeStore Auto updates - Security Journal UK
NewsreportedSecurity Journal UK, published 15 Oct 2025.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Hundreds of bottles of party drug GBL found in Big Yellow Self Storage and Safestore lockers - London Evening Standard
NewsreportedLondon Evening Standard, published 1 Aug 2023.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore returns to underlying earnings growth - Sharecast.com
NewsreportedSharecast.com, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Mayor officially opens new Safestore at Watford Riverwell - www.watford.gov.uk
Newsreportedwww.watford.gov.uk, published 27 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Dividend Growth Record Backs a Quiet Value Case - ABC Money
NewsreportedABC Money, published 2 Aug 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
News coverage check
Newsobserved25 items mention them, 8 confirmed as this company across 5 feeds.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore returns to earnings growth as expansion progresses - Property Week
NewsreportedProperty Week, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Holdings Plc 2026 Q2 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation (OTCMKTS:SFSHF) 2026-06-11 - Seeking Alpha
NewsreportedSeeking Alpha, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Burberry & Safestore: Big director share deals - Investors' Chronicle
NewsreportedInvestors' Chronicle, published 3 Jul 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore gets green light for south London self-storage scheme - Property Week
NewsreportedProperty Week, published 20 Jan 2026.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Holdings PLC (IHF.MU) stock price, news, quote and history - Yahoo Finance UK
NewsreportedYahoo Finance UK, published 2 Aug 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Delivers Return to Earnings Growth as Store Expansion Supports Interim Performance - Yahoo Finance UK
NewsreportedYahoo Finance UK, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Reports Higher H1 Revenue And Underlying Profit - DirectorsTalk Interviews
NewsreportedDirectorsTalk Interviews, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore returns to earnings growth - Green Street News
NewsreportedGreen Street News, published 11 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore CEO Frederic Vecchioli Buys 50,000 Shares on London Stock Exchange - The Globe and Mail
NewsreportedThe Globe and Mail, published 26 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore CFO retires after decade with self-storage group - Property Week
NewsreportedProperty Week, published 28 Sept 2023.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Holdings, Nuveen Partners to Enter Italian Self-Storage Market Via €175M Purchase of Easybox - Inside Self-...
NewsreportedInside Self-Storage, published 6 Jan 2025.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore (LON:SAFE) Shares Pass Below Two Hundred Day Moving Average - Here's What Happened - MarketBeat
NewsreportedMarketBeat, published 21 Jul 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Produce Investments Acquires Biofresh Safestore to Strengthen Global Leadership in Sustainable Potato Storage - Potat...
NewsreportedPotatoPro, published 27 Oct 2025.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore boosted as self-storage market resilient to economic uncertainty - City AM
NewsreportedCity AM, published 18 Jun 2019.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Safestore Holdings PLC (IHF.MU) stock price, news, quote and history - Yahoo Finance UK
NewsreportedYahoo Finance UK, published 4 Aug 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Expert View: Integrafin, Jupiter, Safestore, GB Group, and British Land - Citywire
NewsreportedCitywire, published 3 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Should you buy shares in Big Yellow or Safestore right now? - The Times
NewsreportedThe Times, published 20 May 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
REG - Safestore Hldgs plc - Notice of Third Quarter Trading Update - TradingView
NewsreportedTradingView, published 22 Jul 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
CEO of Europe/UK Self-Storage Operator Safestore Takes £12M Pay Cut - Inside Self-Storage
NewsreportedInside Self-Storage, published 25 Mar 2025.
The name matched exactly and something independent corroborated it.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
IN BRIEF: Safestore CEO Frederic Vecchioli buys GBP300,000 in shares - London South East
NewsreportedLondon South East, published 25 Jun 2026.
Unconfirmed: the name matched, but nothing independent confirmed this is the same company.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · news.google.com
Sitemap URL set
Sitemapobserved873 URLs in the sitemap. Only the URL set is compared between weeks: lastmod values are unreliable and raw HTML rotates on every request.
captured 8 Aug 2026 · confirmed 3 times, last on 8 Aug 2026 · safestore.co.uk
A row is the life of one value, not one fetch: a check that finds the same figure again bumps the confirmation count instead of writing a new line, so a repeated value never looks like news.
What can and cannot be known about a national chain
A listed chain reports to the market, so revenue, like-for-like growth and closing occupancy are real published figures with a period end and a document behind them.
Knowable
- Revenue for each reported year, audited and published, with the growth between years.
- Like-for-like revenue growth and closing occupancy, as reported in their results.
- News coverage, which for the chains is genuinely plentiful.
- The register, and store pages and prices wherever they publish them.
Not knowable, and why
- Occupancy for the branch nearest us. Published occupancy is group-wide and cannot be cut to one store.
- Achieved rates. Published prices are asking rates, and the discount behind them is not published by anyone.
- Anything on a Stora or Storeganise storefront, which is never crawled at all.
- Review text and ratings, which may not be stored under the Maps terms.
Edit this competitor
Changing the website or confirming a company number sets up the checks that become possible. Nothing is ever removed automatically: a check that stops applying records its own skip reason, which stays visible above.