Guide to home insurance

Not to be confused with a PDF, a PDS (product disclosure statement) contains all the vital information you will need to make a decision about a finance product.

While every variant of home and contents insurance provides security for homeowners, there are extra elements to consider when you’re not occupying those four walls yourself. 

When you first move into a rental property, one of the first questions you may ask yourself as a tenant is ‘do I need renters insurance?’ 

There's no doubt about it, home and contents insurance policy writers love their mumbo jumbo. If you're struggling to get your head around some of the home insurance lingo (and really who wouldn't) our jargon buster is here to help.

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.  

If you’re like most people, your home is probably not only one of the most expensive things you’ll ever own, but also one of the most important to you. You most likely put a lot of thought into finding the right one and a lot of effort into saving up and choosing a home loan to afford it.

For many 2020 has been the year of discovering and embracing new hobbies, from cooking up a storm to learning how to sew. Inside homes across the world, people have been doing workouts, practising musical instruments and, of course, baking banana bread.

The year of 2020 has really shaken up the work-lifestyle mix. Many Australians transitioned from office spaces to living room work stations, alongside a raft of other restrictions and changes to workflow (we’re looking at you, Slack calls and Google Hangouts). 

Qantas Insurance has today announced that it will be expanding its product portfolio with Qantas Home Insurance. And yes you guessed it, there are Qantas Points on the table with this new offering. As much as 40,000 to be precise.

From one extreme weather event to the next. Last summer Australia experienced devastating bushfires, while this year the Bureau of Meteorology has warned that extreme wet weather events will be on the cards as a result of La Niña.