David Moskowitz's Blog – March 2009 Archive (3)

I was watching Fox news Sunday night while eating dinner. Around 7:30 PM, my attention was suddenly jostled away from my frozen dinner (dieting…), by an advert for the upcoming Huckabee (as in Mike Huckabee, former presidential candidate) which will feature a segment on house swapping. While I did watch the Simpsons during the 8PM hour, I recorded Huckabee and watched it later on (since I hadn’t been approached for the show, which usually means expect some onlinehousetrading… Continue

Nice front page piece (at least online) in the Christian Science Monitor.



A bit short for the amount of research I know went into the story, but at least they tracked down Jerry and Sherry again.



Also, we finally have a statistic regarding how many swaps are taking place:



"But such deals are gaining momentum. Some 8,000 swaps take place every month, estimates Danielle Babb, a real estate analyst and dean of business at Andrew Jackson University in… Continue

It seems like every time I turn on my computer this month, I receive notice of some other new feature on house swapping. And many of these are high profile pieces (ex. Time, CBS Evening News, MSBNBC.com). Is the growth of swapping finally going exponential?



While Domuswap has not been the main feature of any of these recent articles, I can watch the additional traffic that these, nevertheless, generate. The statistics seem to imply that the growth is still linear, and tends to slow… Continue