Now this is something that I’d like to see in the US, considering that so many of us are paying ridiculous prices for our parking spaces. Park Let, the UK’s largest parking space letting agent, launched an online parking space price-guide tool today. It is the first real-time, location-specific tool available in the UK.
The tool is based on both current contracts and advertised spaces. Landlords can use this to get an estimate of the value of their parking spaces and tenants will be able to calculate the true market value of how much parking spaces and garages are renting for today in their area. You enter a location by postcode or city, and results are shown as monthly amounts for all spaces (pictured). The site is free to use and does not require any registration. Somebody please do this for the US. It would probably force landlords to decrease their rates once their competition’s pricing was revealed, plus it’d be nice to have this to see what the neighbors are paying. Of course, it may also just make price fixing that much easier.
If you live in the UK or just want to see how this works, here’s the link.
I think ParkatmyHouse.com http://www.parkatmyhouse.com (a UK based Web 2.0 company) is already doing this in the US as well as the UK.
I think you’ll find that a number of companies are doing it in the US. ParkatmyHouse.com http://www.parkatmyhouse.com is probably the most well known. They seem to have good coverage all over the UK at the moment.
ParkatmyHouse.com (www.parkatmyhouse.com) is currently doing this in the US – check out the spaces they currently have in Boston http://www.parkatmyhouse.com/us/parking/boston/
When does captain sissy reign in the new??
Hi,
Shouldn’t you know about/mention the long-established SpotScout?
Kind regards,
Shakir Razak
interesting concept
This is just a massive rip-off of http://www.parkatmyhouse.com/ which has been operating for a couple of years now.
Andy, please do some research first. We (www.parklet.co.uk) have been set-up since February 2004.
We were the pioneers in this market place, and continue to be the leading provider on contract parking.
Anyway, the article refers to our price guide tool, not the concept of our business.
Luke
You may be an older company (although somewhat akin to an estate agent, as far as i can tell ) but as you’re just launching your online tool today I’d say that my comment is perfectly valid. And as far as a ‘leading provider’, the wisdom of the crowd seems to disagree:
http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/car-parks/233599/park-let.htm
http://www.plebble.com/listing180550/park-let/”
And, finally, one for TC – what on earth is a web app doing on CrunchGear? Don’t you have a reasonably well-read tech blog dedicated to stuff like this? ;-)
Parklet.co.uk was lanched before parkatmyhouse.com. So please stop inferring that Parklet.co.uk is a rip-off of Parkatmyhouse.com. I´d suggest the vice versa is the case.
Are you guys drunk or astroturfing employees from Parkatmyhouse.com? Don´t be cunning.