It all worked out in the 2006 rom-com “The Holiday,” in which Kate Winslet’s British Iris and Cameron Diaz’s American Amanda escape their own routines and love lives in a two-week, cross-Atlantic home ...

In 2006, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swapped homes in romcom The Holiday and took house swapping to a mainstream audience. Such trust might have seemed a fanciful Hollywood notion to some, but those ...

Ever dreamt of travelling to a new place and living like a local without paying a hefty hotel fee? Home-swapping platforms help you do just that.

Staying in a stranger's home while traveling is a lusty proposition: You get to explore and relax in someone else's sanctuary. Instead of being pigeonholed into tourist zones, you're liberated to ...

In just two years, I have swapped homes with strangers over a dozen times. My two-bedroom flat in Barcelona was bartered for a townhouse in Brooklyn, romantic studio in Milan, park-facing pied-à-terre ...

What if the biggest expense on your next big trip was suddenly waived? Here’s what to know about house-swapping service HomeExchange. Would I swap my own much-loved, lived-in home for any of these ...

When Grace Gagnon uploaded a video of her Boston studio to TikTok in December, asking if anyone in England would switch their apartments with hers for Christmas, she didn’t expect she would get many ...