Denise Nunez

Executive Managing Director - National Self Storage Investment Group

NAI Horizon - Phoenix
2944 North 44th Street, Suite 200
Phoenix, Arizona 85018
United States

16026978868

Specialties

Self Storage

Scope of Experience

Denise Nunez is an accomplished and award-winning commercial real estate professional with more than 30 years of self-storage experience. Denise joined NAI Horizon in 2015, and formed the Nunez Storage Group bringing a national self storage investment platform that advises clients from land acquisition to stabilized self storage asset disposition across the country. Her business acumen places Nunez among the foremost experts in the self-storage industry locally and nationally. She is also one of NAI Horizon’s top dealmakers. In 2021 she was a top-ranked female in the NAI Global network at No. 70 among more than 5,100 agents. Denise was Top Producer for 2018, 2021 and 2022 at NAI Horizon and has finished in the Top 10 the past six years. In 2019 Nunez was named Woman of Influence in Commercial Real Estate by AZ Big Media and more recently, she was named to AZRE’s 2023 People to Know in Commercial Real Estate.

Since 2010 she has helped numerous owners with the acquisition and disposition of self-storage investment properties. Her success as a self-storage real estate specialist has included the sale of "mom-and-pop" assets priced at $700,000 to institutional Class A properties above $25 million in value.

Background & Experience

Nunez gained her expertise in self-storage while serving as President of MiniCo Publishing. She was publisher of Mini-Storage Messenger magazine and its affiliated publications. Nunez also served as editor-in-chief for the Self-Storage Almanac.

Education

Nunez is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Professional Associations & Designations

Nunez is a member of the Arizona Self-Storage Association. She served on its Board of Directors for 14 years, twice as Vice President. Prior positions include strategic planning, asset management, fundraising, and new product development for mid-size companies including Friess Associates, Petros Capital, and VPI Companies. She has served on the Corporate Board of Directors for Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley.

Transaction History

Nunez has closed sales transactions totaling more than $500 million since 2010.