Real Estate Professionals. Trusted for Decades.
Combined Experience
Developing & Acquiring Self Storage Assets
With over 50 years combined industry experience between them these seasoned professionals have been actively engaged in successfully helping buyers and sellers in the development, disposition and acquisition of over $500M in self-storage assets. Each has focused on the self-storage sector becoming respected experts in this specialized area of commercial real estate. Bringing the highest market values to sellers, UPG can help you acquire existing commercial assets or find land to develop.
Ready to develop or acquire a self-storage asset?
United Properties Group, LLC is a full-service Business Brokerage Entity based out of Tyler, Texas, offering commercial and property management solutions. UPG provides a wide range of solutions to clients, including investor services, project leasing, and commercial property management, specializing in the self-storage sector.
Whether you are looking to buy or sell land or property, we have you covered. Our highly knowledgeable team of experts and comprehensive service offering makes us well positioned to meet the needs of all clients.
Let us help you locate the land or evaluate an existing property for potential purchase. Our team of self-storage specialists are highly trained and have the necessary expertise to assist you in buying or selling in this real estate investment sector.
Benefit from Combined Experience
Thomas Holman
Tom has been an active broker specializing in the self-storage sector for over 20 years. A broker since 1987, Tom has both CCIM and MAI education. With a BS in Business Administration from the University of Texas, Holman began his career as a real estate appraiser with Cushman and Wakefield in Dallas. In 1997 he began a 15+-year affiliation with self-storage real estate broker, Paul Darden Company. In that time, Tom successfully brokered over $200 million in self-storage properties and recently closed one of the largest single-site facilities in Texas with over 1300 units. Tom knows how to spot value and find the upside in properties. The extensive relationships he has developed focusing on the self-storage industry often result in the successful disposition or acquisition of properties for clients before significant promotion is even required.
Julie Farrar
Julie has been active in the self-storage industry for over 30 years successfully owning, operating and managing self-storage assets. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Farrar began her career in banking and obtained her Texas real estate sales license in 1982. Forming United Properties Group, LLC in 2020, the firm was established to combine the talents, knowledge, experience and energy of this group. Widely known as a self-storage expert and trusted by clients and lenders nationwide, she has led seminars and published articles for the self-storage industry. Farrar has successfully assisted with the sale, acquisition, or development of over $75M in self-storage product in the last few years while actively owning and operating self-storage management services company, United Properties Group, Inc., established in 1987.
Decades of Delivering Results.
Working with UPG: We’ll Find the Land or Help You Acquire an Asset
Done-For-You Solutions
Julie Farrar, CEO of UPG, oversees all company operations. Qualified administrative personnel are located at the home office headquarters in Tyler, Texas. In addition, field management teams, with significant individual self-storage experience, actively oversee properties within a 500 mile radius of our headquarters. We offer services to clients within the following states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.