Home Exchanges

Hospitality and Home Exchanges

• Aussie House Swap is a quality home exchange database for those who love holidaying without huge accommodation costs. We specialise in home exchange holidays within Australia and New Zealand. House swapping locally means more holidays more often, saving more money! Visitors can scroll the house listings for free but only Aussie House Swap members are able to make contact with other members privately via email. Members are in total control with who they want to swap with eg. seniors may prefer to swap with other seniors. Membership costs only $65 AUD for 12 months.
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• Home Exchange. Home exchangers trade their homes, condominiums or apartments at a time that is convenient to both parties. You have to be a member to list your home - US$99.95 for a year - but you can view the listings without charge.
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• Seniors Home Exchange. Seniors Home Exchange can provide you with the very best alternative holiday at a cost that you never thought possible. All arrangements are made privately by the concerned parties and you yourself choose who you want to exchange visits or homes with. You are free to make arrangements for as many exchanges as you desire. Contact is by email. The cost to register an exchange is $79 US funds for a 3 year listing or $100 for Lifetime Membership.
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House swap, sit or stay

Staying in someone else’s home may not be your idea of a good holiday option but house swapping or house sitting can make seeing different parts of the world more affordable.  In our downloadable PDF, House swap, sit or stay:, YOURLifeChoices explains how to trim your travel budget and live like a local.

House Swap

Most house swaps are organised so the two parties directly exchange – they come to your house, you go to theirs. You can swap for as long or as short a time as you both decide. There are also ‘non-synchronised’ swaps; for example, you go to their house, but they won’t necessarily go to yours – they’ll stay elsewhere or in a second house.

The best place to access the house-swapping community is on the internet. Membership-based house-swap organisations offer search facilities, a guide to exchanging and helpful customer support, such as providing you with a simple contract. Once your membership is paid, you can start to contact other members directly. Many people start planning six months or a year in advance, in order to get to know you and your house before choosing to commit.

Types of House Swaps

You can swap your house, yacht or cruiser for similar accommodation or choose to look for a special interest house swap, such as near or on a golf course. There’s no obligation to swap like properties; in fact, people often want to try something different. You could potentially swap your country house for their studio apartment in Manhattan, or your mountain shack for their yacht on the Aegean.