Over the past few years, I have been House sitting a lot in many different countries and one of the questions my partner and I get asked the most, is how we get our amazing House sits or how to find a House sitter.
Over the years we have tried many House sitting websites and so we have put together this post which lists the best House sitting websites that we have used.
There are a few ways we contact Home owners or they get in touch with us. Some contact me through my Facebook page or I find some House sits in Facebook groups that I’ve joined.
Almost always, we are contacted through our profiles on the House sitting websites we have joined. It’s free for Home owners to join most of them and so we get a lot of requests through these House sitting websites, to house sit all around the world.
So that’s how we get to stay in amazing houses for free!
House sitting in New Zealand
The Best House Sitting Websites
All websites rated out of 5 by us – in Woof’s or Meow’s 🐶🐱
1. AUSSIE HOUSE SITTERS
Website: Aussie House Sitters
Membership Fee: $84 AUD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: Australia only
Features
- Custom House Sit email alerts
- Reasonable membership fee
- Largest range of Australian House Sits
Aussie House Sitters is the largest and most trusted Australian House Sitting and Pet Sitting website. It’s also our go-to website when we’re looking for House Sits in Australia as we find it has the biggest range of Australian House Sits available.
We find it a very user-friendly interface and simple platform to use and we love that you can set-up House Sit alerts, so that when House Sits come up in specific areas that you’d like, you get emailed the ad straightaway.
We think Aussie House Sitters is one of the best House Sitting websites for finding sits in Australia.
Because it’s free for Homeowners to join, sometimes they don’t place an ad, they just create a profile and browse all the House Sitters, so we get contacted a lot on here.
Aussie House Sitters
Total Woof Rating 5/5:
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2. KIWI HOUSE SITTERS
Website: Kiwi House Sitters
Membership Fee: $84 NZD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: New Zealand only
Features:
- Custom House Sit email alerts
- Reasonable membership fee
- Largest range of New Zealand House Sits
Kiwi House Sitters is the sister website of Aussie House Sitters and the largest New Zealand House Sitting website. We find this is one of the best House Sitting websites when we’re looking for sits in New Zealand, as we find it has the biggest range of New Zealand House Sits available.
Easy to use platform and like Aussie House Sitters, it has the House Sit alert feature.
New Zealanders seem to prefer this website to the international House Sitting websites and we get lots requests to house sit in New Zealand from this website, we often have multiple sit’s to choose from.
With the average hotel night in New Zealand costing around $150 NZD and even a double room in a hostel costing around $90-$100 NZD a night, House Sitting through Kiwi House Sitters in places like Mount Maunganui and Auckland for months, has literally saved us thousands of dollars.
Kiwi House Sitters
Total Meow Rating 5/5:
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3. MIND MY HOUSE
Website: Mind My House
Membership Fee: $20 USD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: International
Features:
- One of the original and most established sites
- Cheap membership fee
- Range of international House Sits
- Can be competitive for getting House Sits
Mind My House is a ‘mom and pop’ business and one of the original House Sitting websites. These guys have been going since 2005 and they started their business from a house in London, in the UK before moving to Island Bay, Wellington in New Zealand – I’ve been there, it’s a beaut of a place.
Mind My House offers the cheapest membership fee to House Sitters at only $20 USD and free for Homeowners. They show all their member statistics updated in real-time on the homepage, so you can see how many House Sits there actually are available.
Because Mind My House has been going a long time and is very well-known, this does mean there is a lot of competition between House Sitters when applying for House Sits, often there are more House Sitters available than there are houses to sit.
I love the friendly community section on their website where all members can share their stories, blog post and ask questions or get advice.
Mind My House
Total Woof Rating 4/5:
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4. NOMADOR
Website: Nomador
Membership Fee: $89 USD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: International
Features:
- One of the largest trusted House Sitting websites
- Large range of international House Sits
- Stopover community
- Free ‘Discovery’ Trial option
We find Nomador is one of the best House Sitting websites for finding House Sits anywhere in the world. Nomador founder Mariannig Ferrari setup Nomador when she personally came across the dilemma of finding someone to care for her pets whilst she was on holiday. On realising this was a problem faced by pet-owners all over the world, the idea of House and Pet Sitting was born and Nomador was established.
Nomador are a family-owned business with their own values of trust, integrity and authenticity. Their website features trust profiles, excellent security features and recommendations only from other Nomador users, to create a secure and trusting community.
Nomador is a passion project of a lifetime and this is what makes it different. The second feature that makes Nomador unique is its free option. Nomador offer Homeowners and House Sitters a free trial called the Discovery Option.
For a House Sitter just starting out, applying for house sits can be competitive, so this free trial option with Nomador is perfect for House Sitters that want to try before they buy. As a House Sitter, you can apply for three House Sit assignments free of charge.
Another feature I like about Nomador is that when your membership runs out, you can still access the website and keep in contact with your House Sit or Homeowner contacts.
Nomador also feature Nomador Stopovers Community which offer community members the option of a Stopover while travelling.
The sheer diversity of the house sit locations we’ve found on Nomador are amazing. We’ve looked at House Sits on French Polynesian islands, in Belize, in Morocco and in Bali.
It is however one of the more pricey membership fees, although the huge range of House Sits does justify it for us.
Nomador
Total Meow Rating 4/5:
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5. MIND A HOME
Website: Mind A Home
Membership Fee: $60 AUD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: Australia only
Features:
- Reasonable membership fee
- Excellent user-friendly website functionality
- Receive a daily email notification of new House Sit jobs in your selected States
- Receive a free copy of ‘Guide to House Sitting” eBook
Mind a Home are another Australian only House Sit website which we’ve found great House Sits on. You can browse all the House Sit ads for free and their website is one of the easiest we’ve used. Once you’ve joined, you’ll receive an email notification with a link to any new ad, that becomes available in your choice of states.
Mind a Home have worked to create an excellent user-friendly website, with the simplest search and navigation functionality around.
They also leverage the power of Google Maps on their website – giving you the ability to see all listings Australia wide or by state.
They have a great reputation and Mindahome is regularly on TV and in the media.
Mind a Home Australia
Total Woof Rating 4/5:
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6. HOUSE SIT MATCH
Website: House Sit Match
Membership Fee: £49 for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: International/Worldwide
Features:
- One of the largest House Sitting websites
- Reasonable membership fee
- Verified police check option available
The owner and founder of House Sit Match, Lamia Walker, nurtured a desire to see more of the world from a young age. This was inevitably fuelled by her family’s wanderlust who moved from Sudan to England, in search of a new and more stable life in London. Together they would explore Britain and Europe; sometimes renting, sometimes house-sitting for friends of her parents.
This love of travel and an idealistic nature led her to form House Sit Match, now a trusted and established global platform who connect House Sitters and Homeowners.
House Sit Match have a great looking and user-friendly website with House Sits available all over the world. We’ve seen some great House Sits in the UK on here and there are always a lot of sits in Europe, with fewer of the Australian or New Zealand sits.
House Sit Match run ID checks on all members on registration, there is no extra cost for this to the member, it is included in the price of the plan you sign up to.
So that House Sitters can increase their chance of securing a House Sit, House Sit Match offer an online background and police checking service from their partner ONFIDO. Verified members will then display a tick against their profile, so Homeowners can see the House Sitter has also been police checked.
This will give the House Sitter a great advantage when applying for popular House Sits.
House Sit Match
Total Meow Rating 4/5:
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7. HOUSE CARERS
Website: House Carers
Membership Fee: $40 USD for House Sitters – Free for Homeowners
Countries covered: International/Worldwide
Features:
- The first worldwide House Sitting website
- Reasonable membership fee
- Free limited membership to start
- Great range of global House Sits available
House Carers may not be the largest worldwide House Sitting website but they were the first worldwide House Sitting site. Some House Sitters tell House Carers, they have had better success on their website as there is much less competition for House Sits, compared to other large, corporate House Sitting websites.
We’ve found some great House Sits on this website and what I love about House Carers is that there is an even amount of House Sits spread all over the world. Although they are international, because they’re based in Australia, they have a lot of Australian House Sits available.
They also feature some really interesting real-life stories from regular House Sitters that use House Carers, on their blog.
To make sure you get to see the very latest House Sit ad’s, sign up for House Carers email notifications for free and (hot tip), all of their House Sits get posted hourly to Twitter – so you can get them earlier on their Twitter account here.
House Carers
Total Woof Rating 5/5:
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8. TRUSTED HOUSE SITTERS
Website: Trusted House Sitters
Membership Fee: £89.00 GBP (or $119 USD) for House Sitters – £89.00 GBP (or $119 USD) for Homeowners
Countries covered: International/Worldwide
Features:
- The largest and most trusted House Sitting website
- Excellent reputation and winner of many awards
- Ability to build an extensive and great looking profile
- Free House Sit alert email notification option
- House Sitters get free access to 24/7 Vet Helpline
- Biggest range of House Sits available worldwide
- Beautiful and user-friendly website
I’ve saved the best for last, Trusted House Sitters is the best House Sitting website and our personal favourite.
There are more House Sits on the Trusted House Sitters website, than on all the other global House Sitting websites combined, so you will always find something you want on here.
We can usually find a House Sit anywhere in the world we want to go, on this House Sitting website. And we’ve had some amazing offers, we werre offered a month in Bali, three weeks on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand and a month in the beautiful Bay of Plenty in New Zealand.
(It almost made me cry having to turn down some of these because we were already booked! 😢).
Trusted House Sitters are one of the most popular and well-known House Sitting websites who have quickly grown into an incredible worldwide community of pet lovers. They help connect thousands of home and pet owners with caring and amazing House Sitters, who will happily take care of their home and pets in exchange for a place to stay.
As a House Sitter on Trusted House Sitters, you can build an excellent profile with the options of adding many photos, an extensive ‘About Me’ section, external references and you can even add an intro video to your profile. All of these features can really make your sitter profile stand out.
All House Sitters can have detailed reviews left for them by the Homeowner after they’ve completed a House Sit assignment through Trusted House Sitters. They can also upload their own external references to help build their profile.
All members have one of two standards of verification on their profile, Standard or Enhanced Verification.
Standard Verification is given when your Email address, Phone number, External references and Identity documents are checked and verified.
Enhanced Verification is given when all of the above are verified plus a Criminal Background Check. This gives Homeowners peace of mind when looking for a House Sitter and it also give House Sitters that extra edge when applying for popular House Sits.
House Sitters also get free access to a 24/7 Vet Helpline, live chat with a Trusted House Sitters team member and access to lots of free resources pre-house sit, during and post house-sit to ensure you have everything you need to make the House Sit a smooth experience.
The great thing about Trusted House Sitters is both House Sitters AND Homeowners have to pay the membership fee on this website, which isn’t usually done on other websites. This means the Homeowners are much less likely to cancel their House Sit assignment and both Homeowners and House Sitters are more likely to be committed to the arrangement from the get-go.
As a member I love being able to get all the new House Sits emailed to me, a whole day before they’re published on the website, so I can have a chance to apply before others do.
Trusted House Sitters membership is more pricey than some of the other House Sitting websites but for value for money, it’s more than worth it.
Trusted House Sitters
Total Woof Rating 5/5:
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