Wondering if anyone here has any advice. I'm British by birth, but live in the USA. I'm looking into a house swap with a UK family, and we want to swap cars as well as homes. We'll have no problem lending our cars to our house swap partners; our car insurance policy covers them automatically...

Does anybody have any experience of swapping houses ? We have found someone willing to swap, their house in France to our house in England. The prices are equal and no further cash adjustment is necessary. Besides the notaire fees and government taxes what other costs could be possible? There...