While home swaps have always been a popular solution for vacationers to save money while staying out of bland hotel rooms,  the idea of permanent house swaps is starting to gain in popularity. With far more home sellers than buyers in the market today some entrepreneurs have come up with web-based ways of putting sellers together with other sellers in hopes of meeting the needs of both. Four house swap sites that we ran across were GoSwap.org, DaytonaHomeTrader.com and DomuSwap.com. Last but not least, the popular Craigslist.org also is listing thousands of home swaps.

In our opinion, it remains to be seen if house swaps have a permanent place in the real estate market as there seem to be limited options for specific geographic regions. Even if you’re willing to move outside of your current market, you would still have to find a house you love and a homeowner wanting to swap and move.