Guide to home insurance

Cheap Home Insurance

Cheap Home Insurance

Exploring cheap home insurance in Australia? This guide cuts through the complexity, helping you find a policy that’s both affordable and reliable. Whether you're trimming expenses or seeking essential coverage, we provide the key insights to help you compare home insurance policies effectively so you can get the best deal possible.

What is home insurance excess?

What is home insurance excess?

Home insurance excess is the amount you pay out-of-pocket whenever you make a claim. It applies whether you have home (building) insurance, contents insurance or a combined policy that covers both.

Understanding your product disclosure statement for home insurance

Understanding your product disclosure statement for home insurance

A product disclosure statement (PDS) is one of the most important documents you’ll come across when considering home insurance. It’s your single source of truth -  everything you need to know about your policy is packed into this document.

Understanding home insurance for natural disasters

Understanding home insurance for natural disasters

Natural disasters like bushfires, floods, cyclones, and hailstorms are a fact of life in Australia, with risks only intensifying as our climate changes. The tricky part? No two home insurance policies define or cover these events quite the same way, and the differences can be more unexpected than you’d think.

Holiday home insurance

Holiday home insurance

If you own a holiday home, your insurance options fall into two categories: one for renting the property out, and another for personal use only.

Renters insurance

Renters insurance

Starting life in a new rental often means unpacking boxes, finding the nearest coffee shop, and making the space your own. Insurance might not top your to-do list, but it probably should.

How to prepare your home for El Niño

How to prepare your home for El Niño

For the last three years, Australia has weathered one natural disaster after another. From the devastating Black Summer bushfires to three years of record-breaking floods, home insurance premiums have skyrocketed to compensate for the surge in claims, as highlighted in the 2022 Mozo insurance report.

Home & Contents Insurance Tips and Traps

Home & Contents Insurance Tips and Traps

Whether you’ve built it from scratch or picked it up at an auction, our home is the most expensive thing we own. So the last thing you want is to find out you’ve forgotten to add or misjudged something on your home and contents insurance policy, like underinsurance.

Home insurance news

Cyclone alfred home insurance claims

Cyclone Alfred catastrophe declared as home insurance claims surge

Australians are dealing with another major weather event as insurers respond to damage from Tropical Cyclone Alfred. The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared it an Insurance Catastrophe, with more than 44,000 claims already lodged across Queensland and New South Wales.

Flood defence fund insurance premiums

Insurance industry calls for $30 billion Flood Defence Fund

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) is calling for a major investment in flood defences to protect homes and businesses from rising risk, proposing a $30.15 billion Flood Defence Fund (FDF) over 10 years, shared between the Federal and state governments.

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