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ZOOPLA has revealed the top 10 most expensive streets in Britain and it got me thinking about the relationship between property price and Home Insurance. Take Kensington Palace Gardens in London, the most expensive street in Britain. The average house costs more than £38million. It is not nicknamed Billionaires Boulevard for no reason. The Boltons in London isn’t much cheaper…

CAN you buy Home Insurance with a price guarantee in the UK? The answer is yes, via The Home Insurer, a partner to The Property Insurer. There are many brokers and insurers competing for your home insurance policy in the UK but none of them are quite as plain in their offer as The Home Insurer with its price guarantee.…

I wrote a short article that basically said everyone should keep calm after the Brexit vote and little would happen to your Home Insurance. Here we are nearly two weeks later and if anything, things have got better and improved in some areas. It’s not all rosy though, so let’s start with the negatives. The Conservative Party is doing its…

THE UK has voted to leave the European Union, so what does that mean for your Home Insurance? In short, right now, it means very little. I would argue in the long run it will mean very little again. The EU and Home Insurance Your home insurance will remain in place. It will still offer the same cover and financial…

I HAVE just had my renewal quote for my home insurance come through from my broker and I will be buying a policy again in 2016. The renewal quote is for £109 for a full year’s cover. I’d need to be a mad man to bin that and hope that I don’t need to make a claim. If my house…

Will the EU referendum impact on the cost of your Home Insurance? Will staying in Europe be good or leaving Europe increase the price of insurance? These are my own thoughts on what will happen. UK remains in Europe In this case you can expect very little change to your home insurance in the short term. Effectively nothing will have…

MORE than 200 people per day became property millionaires in 2015 - that’s 76,000 new property millionaires in a year. And every one of those properties needs the best home insurance possible to protect it against financial loss. 2.2% of owners are property millionaires Most of these new property millionaires are in London or the South East of England where…

THE media reports that Portico, a London estate agent, is warning that a new property crash is on its way thanks to decreasing property sales in London. What does that mean for your home insurance? You can read all about the warning on Property Industry Eye. Basically it says that house sale transactions in Westminster are half than they were…

RISING property prices does not mean higher home insurance costs. In fact, using The Property Insurer, you are likely to save a load of cash on your home insurance regardless of how high your property rises in value. According to Rightmove the average asking price for new property is £292,572 which is up 6.2% on last year and paving the…

YESTERDAY’S announcement that interest rates in the UK are likely to remain low well into 2016 will be welcomed by home owners and landlords with mortgages, but will it have any effect on your Home Insurance costs? In the long term, which is where we now are with interest rates held at 0.5% since 2009, low interest rates will have…