Today, March 15 2012 HomeExchange.com gleefully celebrates 20 years of helping travelers from around the globe make themselves at home anywhere in the world! Can you believe we started with nothing more than a phone directory? Today we stand at 42,000 plus listings and we are growing everyday. We could have never made it this far on our remarkable journey without our adventurous and loyal members–and for that–we thank you.
Here’s a few of our company highlights.
1992 – Creator, owner and President, Ed Kushins launched Home Exchange predecessor “Trading Home International” Pre- internet as a printed directory.
1995 – Online Launch of Tradinghomes.com
2002 – TradingHomes.com Consolidates as HomeExchange.com TM 2005 – First International site launches www.trocmaison.com(France)
2006 – Launch of: www.scambiocasa.com (Italy)
www.intercambiocasas.com (Spain) www.huizenruil.com (The Netherlands) www.trocacasa.com (Portugal) www.haustauschferien.com (Germany)
Release of Sony Pictures film “The Holiday”
2008 – Launch of: HomeExchangeGold.com
www.hembyte.nu (Sweden) www.hjembytte.dk (Denmark)
2009 – Launch of: www.boligbytte.com (Norway)
www.kodinvaihtoloma.com(Finland) 30,000th Listing – Making us the largest Home Exchange club in the world.
2010 – Launch of: www.csereotthon.com (Hungary)
www.evdegistokusu.com(Turkey) 主页交流 (China)
New Site debuted Fall of 2010
2011-40,000th Listing
Launch of HomeExchangeGreece and MijenjamVikendicu.com (Croatia)
The HomeExchange Blog was introduced in December 2011We look forward to excitement of many years to come. We hope you’ll continue with us on this exciting adventure as we say bon voyage to the past 20 years and hello to a undoubtedly bright future.