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Packhood is Europe's peer-to-peer storage marketplace. We operate in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Press contact: press@packhood.com — replies within 4 hours, weekdays.

Quick facts

Legal name
Packhood Marketplace Ltd
Founded
2025
Governing jurisdiction
Ireland
Markets
Ireland · United Kingdom · Netherlands
What it is
Peer-to-peer marketplace for unused local space (garages, sheds, attics, spare rooms, basements, driveways)
Host commission
5% per booking
Renter service fee
20% on top of listed rate
Host guarantee
£260 per booking (UK) · €300 per booking (Ireland, Netherlands)
Payments
Stripe — renter pays by card, first month held until host accepts
Host KYC
Stripe Identity (government photo ID)
Host onboarding time
~12 minutes to first listing
Languages supported
English (en-IE, en-GB), Dutch (nl-NL)

Headline stats you can quote

From the State of Storage report (Q2 2026). All figures are open under CC-BY 4.0 and are estimates composited from public sources — see the methodology before citing.

54%median cheaper than commercial self-storage for the same volume (State of Storage, Q2 2026)
€74median peer-to-peer storage in Ireland vs €168 commercial (per month, 50 sq ft unit)
£84median peer-to-peer storage in United Kingdom vs £175 commercial (per month, 50 sq ft unit)
€90median peer-to-peer storage in Netherlands vs €194 commercial (per month, 50 sq ft unit)

Company & registers

Packhood Marketplace Ltd, founded 2025, governed under the laws of Ireland. We don't publish a registration number on this page because entity registration across our three markets is staged; the authoritative, always-current record is the public statutory register in each country:

Open datasets

Every dataset Packhood publishes is open under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0). Cite as "Packhood Research, <dataset>, packhood.com/dataroom".

Embeddable widgets

Free, self-contained widgets for your articles — each carries a credit link back to the data.

For journalists — cite this

This work is licensed CC-BY 4.0. Reuse freely with attribution.

Packhood Research, “State of Storage — Q2 2026”, packhood.com/state-of-storage. Released under CC-BY 4.0.

For a custom cut of the data, an interview, or fact-checking a figure before publication, email press@packhood.com. We aim to confirm or correct any Packhood number within 4 working hours.

Journalist API access

Higher rate-limits + early access to draft datasets are available to verified journalists. Email press@packhood.com with your masthead + a one-line pitch. We typically issue keys within one business day.

Standard tier (no auth): 60 req/min, all public endpoints under /api/packhood-index + /api/host/earnings + /api/briefing/latest.

Journalist tier: 600 req/min + access to draft monthly index 48h before public release.

Logos + brand

Packhood's favicon is at /favicon.svg and the social/brand card at /og/packhood-og.jpg. Use them in the colour and spacing they ship in. Don't recolour, distort, or compose into Packhood-affiliated marks. The Storehouse palette is harbour #0B5563, beacon #F0894A, ink #0E1F2A on paper #F7F4EE.

GEO transparency

We publish weekly tracker data on how Packhood appears in LLM answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Cohere). See the Dataroom.