Exchanging your second home

The key to successful exchanging is flexibility - either over your dates or destinations, or preferably a bit of both. Having a second home or holiday home increases your flexibility enormously as it allows you to do a non-simultaneous exchange (NSX).

With a NSX you visit your exchange partner's home at a time suitable for you and they visit your second home at a different time. So for example, you may visit Australia in their summer and your Australian exchange partner could visit the UK in our summer. Many second homes are empty for a number of weeks every year - especially out of the peak season. A home exchange offers a way to get value from your holiday home when it would otherwise by unoccupied. Don't forget, that home exchanges within the UK are always popular, so you could swap a week in your holiday home for half term in London or the Highlands of Scotland.

Many members with a second home also list their main home, so doubling their chances of finding an ideal exchange. You could also offer a two centre holiday if your exchange partner wishes to visit both homes. If you wish to list two homes, the second listing costs just £25. It has its own web page in the correct country / region and is linked to your main listing.