House Swap Starter Toolkit

Everything you need to organise a house swap properly — from checking the insurance to handing over the keys.

A successful house swap involves more than agreeing on dates and booking flights. There’s insurance to clarify, expectations to agree, and all the practical details of your home to pass on before someone else moves in.

The House Swap Starter Toolkit brings together three practical resources designed to help you work through the swap from agreement to arrival:

Insurance Conversation Toolkit

Helps you review your existing home insurance, explain the proposed swap clearly and ask your insurer or broker the right questions about guest occupancy, home exchanges, exclusions, conditions and available cover.

House Swap Agreement

A practical written record of what both parties have agreed, including dates, occupancy and visitors, house rules, private areas, utilities, cleaning, damage and responsibility, pets and other care duties, security, cancellation and the terms of the exchange.

House Handover Toolkit

Helps you pass on the everyday information someone actually needs to live in and look after your home — from keys, Wi-Fi and appliances to rubbish, parking, pets, plants, local tips, emergency contacts and departure instructions.

Together, they give you a simple framework for the practical side of a swap:

• Check the insurance
• Agree the terms
• Hand over the home properly.

They don’t make a house swap risk-free or replace insurance, legal advice or good judgement. They help make sure the important conversations happen — and that everyone knows what’s been agreed.



A reusable toolkit for house-for-house swaps, time-separated exchanges and other private home-sharing arrangements.