House Sitting Magazine: Issue 33 October 2020

IS HOUSE SITTING CHANGING FOR FULLTIME SITTERS?

by Vanessa Anderson As full time house sitters approach the winter months in the northern hemisphere, we are all perhaps a little nervous of what the future holds for the travel and house sitting communities.

Many of us spent the spring months in lock-down, emerging cautiously in July to tip-toe back to the world of house sitting - mostly domestic sits and within local government guidelines.

Staycations became all the rage, and the prices of campervans and motorhomes sky-rocketed.

The more adventurous holiday makers threw caution to the wind and flew off to experience summer as normally as possible, throughout Europe, in countries keen to give their failing tourist businesses a much needed boost.

Other house sitters found themselves permanently stationed in countries away from home, competing for the few sits that popped up from second home owners, intrepid travellers, and homeowners who themselves hadn’t made it back to their permanent homes.

So to some it may look like house sitting has returned to a more normal state.