Home Insurance

Ways to Get Home Insurance Quotes

Posted by on March 18, 2011 at 7:09 am

Home insurance can be costly, but there are a few things you can do to ensure you get the best deal.  Knowing where to look is the key to finding the most competitive home insurance deals.  You can search in whatever way you are comfortable doing, but record your findings so you can make a [...]

Home Insurance Quotes for High Risk Properties

Posted by on March 4, 2011 at 10:36 am

You may have a particular situation that creates a special risk to the insurance companies.  There are certain factors that increase their liability, which will result in a higher premium or they may decide against insuring you at all.  It is up to the individual insurer to decide whether they are prepared to accept the [...]

Premium Insurance – Is It Worth It?

Posted by on February 18, 2011 at 5:50 am

One of the country’s top insurers has recently launched what they call a premium insurance service, and other insurance companies are likely to follow this new trend.  But what does premium insurance provide, and is it worth the additional money? Premium insurance has a couple of advantages over standard house insurance.  These premium policies may [...]

Flood Zones and House Insurance

Posted by on February 4, 2011 at 6:50 am

Regardless of where you live, having building and contents insurance should be on the minds of all. When disaster strikes, your home insurance will be there for you when you need it most.  Repairing a damaged building after a nasty storm or to rebuild a house entirely after a fire is the purpose of home [...]

House Insurance – A Postcode Lottery

Posted by on January 18, 2011 at 11:21 am

Insurers split residential areas into different classes depending on the risk they undertake when they insure a property.  Risks include theft, fire and flooding and insurers use advanced statistical techniques to determine what degree of risk a property in a specific postcode exposes the insurer to. For homeowners this may sometimes feel unfair.  Just because [...]

Finding the Best Contents Insurance Policy

Posted by on January 4, 2011 at 10:43 am

There are a wide variety of comparison websites that will help you find the best contents insurance policy.  If you are a tenant or student, it is vital that you find a contents insurance policy that will provide exactly the level of cover you need for your possessions. You can use comparison websites to compare [...]

Contents Insurance Quotes

Posted by on December 29, 2010 at 4:39 am

Comparing contents insurance companies and their rates will give you the chance to find a policy that is just right for you.  You can use comparison websites to gather and compare contents insurance quotes in order to get an idea of how much the level of cover you require will cost and which policy best [...]

Taking Out Buildings and Contents Insurance

Posted by on December 8, 2010 at 10:54 am

When you take out a mortgage, one of the conditions will be that you purchase buildings insurance, although you do not have to accept the buildings insurance recommended by the lender.  Buildings insurance is there to cover you for the cost of rebuilding your home should it be destroyed or made uninhabitable because of fire [...]

Explaining Home Insurance Jargon

Posted by on November 29, 2010 at 5:47 am

Here we present some information highlighting and explaining some of the more confusing terms used by the home insurance industry.  As it’s very important to read the small print in any insurance document, this should help you make head and tail of it. Proposer – This is simply another expression to describe you as the [...]

Tips to lower your house insurance

Posted by on November 8, 2010 at 9:35 am

There are lots of tips that can help you protect your home, and possibly even lower your house insurance quote, some of them obvious and some of them not so obvious. Here are just a few. Locks    Changing the locks when you move into a new house is always a good idea, as you never know [...]