Home Insurance Guide News
Brits lie to partners about true cost of purchases
Posted on 19/07/2007 at 09:24
Posted on 19/07/2007 at 09:24
A quarter of British adults (8.5 million) have chosen to 'Buy Now, Lie Later' in the last 12 months, hiding the real cost of purchases from their partners and family, according to a new survey from Halifax Home Insurance.
The home insurance provider found that these secret spenders played down the true cost of their purchases by an average of £772 over the last year. Altogether, this e...
Flooding and Insurance - Preparing for the Worst
Posted on 19/07/2007 at 02:51
Posted on 19/07/2007 at 02:51
According to the Association of British Insurers an estimated 27,500 homes were damaged in the floods which recently hit Yorkshire and parts of the Midlands, and the cost to insurers is expected to be in excess of £1.5 billion. It is a nightmare scenario to see your home devastated by flood waters but the misery is compounded if you are unin...
Neighbours costing homeowners millions in damages
Posted on 07/06/2007 at 16:09
Posted on 07/06/2007 at 16:09
Homeowners suffer more than £93.4 million of damages to their properties at the hands of their neighbours every year, according to the latest research from Abbey Home Insurance.
The insurance provider found that accident prone neighbours had caused £172 of damage on average to over 543,000 households, with one in twenty homeowners seeing more than £1,000 of damage inflicted on their pr...
One million holiday-makers return to disaster each year
Posted on 31/05/2007 at 10:11
Posted on 31/05/2007 at 10:11
Research conducted by Halifax Home Insurance has revealed that over one million British holidaymakers a year return home to find that disaster has struck, either in the form of burglary, vandalism or problems caused by the elements. The bill to put this right is expected to be £2.3 billion this year.
In the past ten years, 2.5 million of us have been burgled whilst away, costing around...
DIY costing Britons millions
Posted on 30/05/2007 at 09:47
Posted on 30/05/2007 at 09:47
So-called 'bodge it yourself' (BIY) Britons spend £670 million every year fixing home improvement disasters, according to the latest figures from Halifax Home Insurance.
With two bank holiday weekends falling in May this year, millions of Brits will have turned their hand to DIY this month. However the research from Halifax suggests that it is more a case of BIY than DIY for the 4.1 mi...