Find a Home Swap
There are many different ways you can find a mutual exchange.
Your Council or Housing Association may have an advertising board
in their offices. These can be effective for local home swaps if
the notice board is well known and if tenants check it regularly.
A much easier way to find a mutual exchange is to use a home swap
website. There are several different sites, some are free to use,
others you have to pay a small fee for. If you choose to register
on a website you should first check to see if they have any
properties in the area that you wish to move to. Most home swap
sites will let you run a free search and let you look for home
swaps before you register.
You should also place a classified advert for a home swap on sites
such as
Viva Street and
preloved.co.uk
classified
adverts on these sites do not cost anything.
You should also check with your local paper if you are looking for
a local home swap as they may also allow you to advertise for free.
You could also try a three-way mutual exchange. The Diagram
below shows you how a Three way home swap works. A good three way
matching tool on an mutual exchange website is on www.house-exchange.org.uk - it really takes the
leg work out of finding a 3-way home swap.
You can of course have more than three people involved in your
move so a 4-way exchange or a 5 way etc, the more people the more
complicated it gets, however this is a viable way of swapping
homes, be prepared to put in some effort to get the home swap you
want.
You may want to move locally or from one end of the country to
another, find out where you can mutual exchange
to.