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Product1 September 2026· 5 min read

Nobody needs to own a hammer drill

The Market has a section for lending things out: a day rate, a deposit that is actually required, and a “rented out” switch so you never have to delete and repost the same drill.


Think about the drill in your cupboard. You bought it for one shelf, in one flat, in a country you had lived in for six weeks. It has been used four times since. Somewhere within two kilometres of it, tonight, somebody is pricing up the exact same drill because they also need to put up one shelf.

That is a solvable problem, and it is a specifically expat problem: you arrive with nothing, you need everything once, and you have no shed full of neighbours to borrow from yet.

🧰 Where it lives

The Market now has three sections along the top. Buy & Sell is what it always was. House rentals is property — rooms, studios, flats, with bedrooms and furnished and the fields a lease actually needs. And Rentals is the new one: things. A hammer drill, a camera, a gazebo, a roof box for the summer, a pressure washer, a folding table for the party you are hosting once.

The button says Lend something, because that is what it is.

🔑 What is different from selling

A day rate

Day sits alongside week and month, and it is the default. Nobody rents a hedge trimmer by the month.

A deposit, always

Required on every item — not a checkbox you can skip. It is the lender’s only real protection when a physical object leaves their hands, and it is held by you and returned when the thing comes back.

Condition, stated

The same condition field as a sale. “Fair” on a borrowed drill is useful information, not an insult.

Available from

Optional. Useful when the thing is out until the fifteenth and you would rather say so than field four messages about it.

Rented out, not deleted

A thing you lend goes out and comes back. Until this release the only way to say “not this week” was to mark it sold — which meant deleting the listing and writing it out again on Tuesday, losing every save and every conversation attached to it. Now there is a switch: Mark as rented out. The listing stays up wearing a Rented out tag, keeps its saves and its chats, and sorts below the available ones without ever being hidden. Someone hunting for a pressure washer would far rather find the one that exists and is free at the weekend than an empty page.

📸 Eight photos, and how far away it is

Listings take up to eight photos and now actually show all of them — swipe through, tap for fullscreen, pinch to zoom. For a rental that matters more than for a sale: the scuff on the case and the fact that the bits are included are the whole negotiation.

Every listing also carries where it is and how far that is from you. Lending only works at walking-or-short-drive distance, so this is the feature the whole section leans on — see how the radius works for what the app does with it, including the part where your exact address is never what other people receive.

We do not verify listings, items or their owners

Rentals carry a stronger notice than sales do, on the card and on the listing, and we mean it. Agree the deposit and the return date in writing in the chat before anything changes hands, meet somewhere you are comfortable, and photograph the item when it leaves and when it comes back. Namaste is where you find each other. The handover is between the two of you.

Things worth putting up tonight

The drill, obviously. But also: the carpet cleaner, the pressure washer, the camping gear used one August, the projector, the trailer, the sack barrow, the suitcase in the size you only need for long-haul, the folding chairs from the party. If it has been used four times and cost more than fifty euros, someone within ten kilometres would rather borrow yours than buy theirs.

Tell us how it goes — the feedback form or WhatsApp. Especially if something about the deposit or the handover felt awkward: that is the part we most want to get right.

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Someone who’s just moved will thank you for it.

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