About Us
Welcome to International Vacation Home Exchange. We are a friendly team who care passionately about making your home exchange experience the best possible. We all share a great love of travelling and are keen to enable our members to travel the world in comfort and style while saving thousands of dollars.

Suzie Magnus, Founder, LinkedIn
An experienced professional in the real estate and property development business, Suzie founded IVHE in 2003 to offer a home exchange site that offered flexibility, choice and excellent service. Her emphasis is always on providing a high level of service combined with a personal touch for all our home exchange members.

Larry Klimczyk, Excecutive Director
Larry joins us with years of international experience in both technology and transportation. Having worked in over 40 countries he is expanding our options around the globe.

Annette, Technical Director
Annette is responsible for all technical aspects of the International Vacation Home Exchange site and is always on hand ensure that the website works perfectly.  

Jacqueline Tongko, Your Personal Travel Resercher
Jacque is our enthusiastic Travel Researcher. Her hard work will save you lots of time in online research of the location you will be visiting. She can find the best restaurants, theatre information, shopping tips, local transportation or anything else that captures your interest. This exclusive service will give you great options so that you can make informed choices, and ensure that your IVHE Home Exchange/trade is a fantastic experience.

Caroline, Marketing and Administration
Caroline has worked with Suzie and Annette since 2005 providing marketing and administration support. She is responsible for approving all new home exchange properties and is always happy to help with any queries you may have about your IVHE listing. 

Home Exchange Dedicated Trade Co-ordinators; Jenny, Sally and Jod
Jenny, Sally and Jod organise your home exchanges and trades and make sure that all goes smoothly. They take great pride in getting to know home exchange members personally, providing them with the highest possible levels of personal service.

Jenna, Marketing and Sales
Jenna is responsible for membership promotions and sales. She is always looking for new home exchange members with lovely properties because the more properties we have, the greater the choices are for all of our members. 

Things we do differently

Our aim is to offer a personal service to all members, to get involved in all aspects of the home exchange both before and after. Most importantly, our system means that you never have to arrange a simultaneous home exchange with another member, which gives you much greater flexibility with your holiday plans.

A few things that make us special:

Non-simultaneous home exchange: The timing of your holiday is not guided by anyone else's schedule. You may want a one-week stay while another member may want a two-week stay at your property. International Vacation Home Exchange makes this possible.

Vastly varied property portfolio: Your property can be exchanged with any type or size of property using our credits system and everyone benefits. You do not have to exchange on a like-for-like basis, giving you greater flexibility and more interesting choices. This means, as an example, you can home swap your 5 bedroom Caribbean paradise for a smaller 2 bedroom luxury apartment in London while still having remaining credits to use on another holiday.

Home exchange in a multitude of locations: You can stay anywhere in the world with our online home swap system. You are not limited with an exchange to a place you do not want to go to or have visited already.

Different seasons: As a global exchange site the properties are listed from all over the world. The seasons vary greatly in different parts of the world, particularly in the northern and southern hemispheres. Whether you're seeking sun or snow, the world is your oyster, year-round!

Expectations: As you do not need to exchange properties on a like-for-like basis, this helps to remove the obvious comparisons that may be made between homes. Try something new!

We are aware our fees are different to the conventional home exchange listing sites but then so are our services. We want to offer something different, combining Internet technology with a more personal service giving our members the best possible home exchange experience.

1. We search for the right properties, in both well-travelled or exotic areas and that are of a high quality. We are not looking for thousands of listings or places where people do not want to travel. International Vacation Home Exchange will not suit everyone. We are looking for quality and quantity, but not volume.
2. We will keep a database of our members and their credit accounts, we will never share this database with third parties.
3. We will keep the website up-to-date with as much information as possible to make your search easy and fulfilling.
4. We aim to respond to e-mails or phone enquiries in less than 48 hours, and would like members to do the same where possible. We are happy to make phone enquiries.
5. If we do not have a member in the location you would like to visit, let us know and we will put every effort into finding a suitable property owner who would like to become a member.
6. We will do our best to make sure the information given to us by members is as accurate as possible. We take 2 references, preferably from a guest who has stayed at the property as an exchange or rental, who we will contact.
7. We will send send reminders to leave feedback after a trade to both host and guest after an exchange, and will keep records of these. This will be available to other members.
8. Although we cannot take responsibility for things going wrong, we will take any complaints very seriously and investigate as thoroughly as possible. Any members that have given false or misleading information about their property could end up losing credits and/or lose their membership.
9. All members agree to be responsible for any damages that they might incur during their stay in a property, and any member failing to honour this commitment in a manner satisfactory to all concerned will lose their membership. Members will need to agree to our Terms and Conditions, which covers all of the requirements above.
10. We will expect every property to have a comprehensive "guide" to the property as well as instruction books for appliances and emergency contact numbers.
11. If the property is not a rental property, we will need some proof of the rental value, either from a rental agency or we will try to find a website address with a comparable property in the same area.
12. We will expect honesty, as misleading information will come out in the feedback forms.

We hope the above has answered most of your questions, if you have any that we haven't covered please e-mail us or fill in our online form.

To apply for Membership go to our Join page .