Some alternative property types struggled to achieve increases in value during 2025, according to the Green Street Commercial Property Price Index.
The data and analytics firm says hotel values increased by 1 percent during 2025, while self-storage saw a drop of –0.5 percent. Data centres saw an uptick of 3.7 percent, but in the final quarter of 2025 this dropped to 0.9 percent. Overall, data centre values are down –0.7 percent since the trough of the third quarter in 2023.
Overall, commercial property values went up by 1.7 percent during 2025, meaning they have now increased by 5.6 percent since the third quarter of 2023.
Marie Dormeuil, a senior analyst at Green Street, says the drop in values in the self-storage sector can be attributed to yield expansion and a slowdown in the general housing ownership markets in parts of Europe. “Yield expansion is signalled in the pricing and the failed bids that took place in 2025,” says Dormeuil, referring in part
