What’s the best type of property to list on Peerspace
20 Oct 2021 · 1 min
Podcast conversation (Oct 20, 2021) between Mark Simpson and a Peerspace representative about what types of properties work well on Peerspace. The guest emphasizes a wide variety of acceptable listings—residences (flats, single-family homes), meeting rooms, warehouses, lofts, backyards—and clarifies hosts can list whole spaces or parts of spaces. The dialogue also raises when Peerspace began targeting short-term rental accommodation businesses.
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There's two types of people coming to the Peerspace website. You'll have the, the host who wants to list their their property and you'll have the people that want to book. So from just like case studies that are out there right now, what are the types of properties that are listing on Peerspace? Because I think the assumption would be oh, it's for, you know, big warehouses or X, Y, Z. It's not going. I think a host watching this may be thinking it's not going to be for, for me. So if you could just give some different types of examples of people that are listing there's their properties on Peerspace just to sort of calm that objection that somebody may have.
Yeah, well we are interested in bringing on unique spaces, whatever kind of space type that may be. So while there are meeting rooms and boardrooms and co working spaces, there are also many, many homes residences that are used for different activities. There are warehouses, lofts, flats, single family homes. People are listing their backyards for events for example. You can list parts of the space as well, I should mention. So when you list your space it doesn't mean that you're giving somebody access to bedroom and people aren't sleeping or staying overnight in a space. So yeah, we have many different space types but we certainly see quite a bit of demand for residences, particularly from production segments and for our meeting segments where teams would like to get together in a more relaxed, inspiring space. There's a ton of variety in residences and every space is really different and you can find what you're looking for if you're browsing for a rental.
So at what point of the Peerspace journey and I don't know how long you've been in the company for, but what part of the Peerspace journey did you realize that. Hang on a second, we need to get short term rental accommodation businesses on this platform. Was it was a specific moment or was it just something that you sort of decided to target from the off or was it something that came in like a couple of years down the line?
Yeah, that's a really good question. I want to say that it happened quite organically. I think that there is people who are familiar with short term rental platforms, Airbnb for example, are understanding that there's the value of their space can be monetized in different ways. And as wind people got wind of what was happening with Peerspace as an alternative way to do something similar. I think a lot of the organic inbound supply that we started seeing was these residences and a lot of short term rentals and vacation properties. You just understand the concept of that. And so I don't know that we deliberately went after that kind of audience to add that supply ever. But it certainly is something that our renters are saying they're looking for the reasons I mentioned earlier that there's a lot of unique qualities about these spaces. And the host is generally used to providing a certain expectation around hospitality and attentiveness to their needs. And so they just tend to do really well on the platform. And that's not to say that a photo studio or a performance space is also doing well. There's kind of different types of rentals.
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