www.switchingrooms.ie is a new online start-up that provides a solution to the housing shortage and escalating rents.

switchingrooms allows users to advertise the room they are leaving behind on its database, Switching Rooms will search for a suitable match in the required destination and users can do a direct swap thus eliminating the need to pay any rent in their new room.

It allows users to swap their home rooms, cutting out huge rental costs. Members may also agree terms and provide food, Wifi, cleaning facilities and transport to save on living expenses”

This will allow students or any person seeking accommodation to source suitable accommodation, from their own home.

Parents worrying about the cost involved in sending students to third level can look at the option of hosting a switching rooms member and eliminate rental cost for the college term.

Professionals accepting a contact away from home may directly swap thus avoiding the need to pay two rents or Mortgages!

Students reluctant to choose a course in another city are no longer prohibited by costs. The website functionality allows parents and students to agree terms ahead of a swap to facilitate each others needs.

International students or those planning to do the Erasmus programme may successfully swap rooms for thus avoiding paying rent.

Sometimes the simple ideas are the best. In a world where living expenses and rents are stratospheric and the zeitgeist moves from owning to sharing. Switching rooms finds itself in a smart place.

This Irish startup that connects students looking for accommodation with each other could prove to be a winner.

The sharing economy is growing in popularity worldwide and switching rooms ticks all the boxes.

Switching Rooms plans on expanding worldwide connecting international students with each other. The future looks promising.