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Your guide to home insurance

Home is where the heart is. It’s also where we keep a lot of valuable things – and if you’re a homeowner, there’s nothing more valuable (in financial terms!) than your home itself.

Here’s a quick guide to home insurance, to answer some of the questions you probably have about it.

There are two basic kinds of [...]

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What is Included in Home Insurance Cover?

An Advertising Feature

Home insurance cover is a product which we all feel obligated to invest in. Offering us protection against damage and theft to our property and the personal possessions held within them, home insurance cover is essential for all households. The type of cover which is provided, however, will vary from policy to policy [...]

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A thatched roof can be a serious fire risk

NFU Mutual is the largest provider of rural insurance in the country and it has warned those people who have thatched roof houses to be sure they are safe. The announcement by the company has come after several chimneys have caused fires as people are beginning to use their fireplaces as the weather cools. Checking [...]

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Safety in student digs

Safety in student digs

Due to the large fees rises that are scheduled for next year, a record number of students are joining universities in the UK this autumn. Hundreds of thousands of students will be sharing rented houses and flats, and some of these will have older gas appliances that are potentially dangerous.

The Heating [...]

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Comparing Home Insurance – How to do it?

Home insurance falls into two main categories; contents and building. The former is for those who rent their property and only need to worry about what’s inside the house. Both types are bought by homeowners, as they have to make sure their actual house is covered against all eventualities as well [...]

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Make sure you have home insurance cover

Claims made against home insurance policies are relatively rare, and the chances of ever having to make a claim are very small.  In fact, the claim rate equates to around 0.01% of the total population of homeowners.  This accounts for the relatively low cost of home insurance policies, indeed, in comparison to car insurance.  A [...]

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Added VAT will add to insurance values

Those who have faced trouble in the past making a home contents insurance claim after facing fire, flood, or theft in their home will be glad to hear that Parago Home launched a new home contents management tool on their website today to make it easier to complete the claims process.

Since the tool guide’s homeowners [...]

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Insurance for new property owners

After choosing a mortgage lender, the second hardest part of being a new home buyer is choosing a mortgage home insurance policy.  Even though the market opening up has helped increase the competition among home insurance providers lowering the rates for cover substantially, it has also made choosing a good policy a little more complicated.

Given [...]

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Home Insurance for non-standard customers

A revolutionary and award-winning new home insurance service has been launched – the first to offer immediate, online cover to people, no matter what their circumstances.

homeprotect (www.homeprotect.co.uk) is the first insurance provider to cater online for people typically shunned by mainstream rivals – estimated to be 15% of the overall home insurance market.  This includes [...]

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