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Packhood Research
Free, citable studies on storage costs, unused-space income and housing economics across Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Every figure is sourced from real public data and published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — reuse it, just credit Packhood Research and link back.
Packhood is a new marketplace, so our studies are estimates composited from real public sources — operator rate cards, residential rent references and national statistics offices — not realised booking data. Each study names its sources and lists its limitations.
Research studies
- Q2 2026
Garage Income Map: what unused space earns across Ireland, the UK & the Netherlands
A spare room is the highest-earning unused space in all three markets — up to €1,710/yr net in the UK on Packhood’s reference rates.
Read the study → - Q2 2026
The Cost of Storing the Average Home: IE / UK / NL edition
Storing a typical home’s ~14 m³ of overflow costs up to €235/month at commercial self-storage — peer-to-peer space cuts that by roughly half.
Read the study → - Q2 2026
Rent vs. Store: the economics of downsizing in Dublin, London & Amsterdam
A London household needs ~7 m² of extra floor to keep its overflow at home — renting that space costs far more per year than storing it peer-to-peer.
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More open data
Our recurring data surfaces — updated on a quarterly or monthly cadence.
State of Storage — quarterly price index
Per-city self-storage vs peer-to-peer price benchmarks across IE/UK/NL, with savings %, charts and a downloadable dataset.
Open →Storage Earnings Index
Cross-market host-earnings dataset (area × asset) with a “savings vs self-storage” column. CSV download, CC-BY 4.0.
Open →Packhood Dataroom
The index of every open dataset Packhood publishes — host earnings, storage prices, methodology. Press front door.
Open →
Citing our data
All Packhood Research data is open under CC-BY 4.0. For pre-formatted citations, embed codes and direct CSV links, see the Cite & embed page. For company facts and quotable figures, see the press kit and the journalist fact sheet.
Questions, a custom data cut, or an interview? Email press@packhood.com — we reply within 4 hours on weekdays. Research is published by the Packhood Research Team.