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Our Knowledge Base is full of helpful blog articles, guides and checklists to help you through your property insurance journey. There are also in-depth guides to key categories, including unoccupied house insurance.
The updated Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act – how will...
Landlords have seen an increasingly tight regime of laws and regulations in the last few years – and 2019 looks as though it is unlikely to be any different. The…
Crack down on rogue landlords
The government is showing that it’s prepared to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to rogue landlords, according to an official press release on the 14th of January…
Thinking of Selling Your Buy to Let Property?
As many as one in five buy to let landlords are thinking of selling up, said a report in the Express newspaper on the 2nd of September 2018. So, if you are…
Minimising escape of water claims in flats
It’s a nightmare to wake up or come home to find that an escape of water – from a burst pipe or some other plumbing failure – has flooded your…
What Insurance Do I Need for My Mobile Holiday Home?
It might be called a mobile holiday home, but mobility is probably one of the last things on your mind. Once the static caravan you have chosen as your holiday…
Guide To Subsidence And Subsidence Insurance
GUIDE TO SUBSIDENCE AND SUBSIDENCE INSURANCE Contents Introduction What is subsidence? What properties are affected? Types of subsidence Spotting subsidence Subsidence insurance Summary Guide to subsidence and subsidence insurance Introduction…
Latest Mortgage Figures Reveal A Soft Market
The latest Mortgage Trends Update from UK Finance reveals that the mortgage market is softening, with a decrease in the number of completed mortgages in September 2018 across the first…
HMO landlords be prepared
Landlords of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) faced tougher new restrictions on the standards of their let properties from the beginning of this month. The 1st October 2018 marked the…
More HMOs To Require Licences
More than 170,000 Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are to be drawn into the licensing regime operated by local authority housing departments, the Residential Landlords’ Association has estimated. Until now, only HMOs…
Students – are your belongings insured?
You’ve finally lived the dream and arrived at college or university. Freshers’ week is an uncomfortably dim and distant memory. And now it’s time to get down to some of…
The New Ppi Scandal – Leaseholds
The Guardian newspaper on the 20th of July 2018 described it as a “murky” yet “lucrative” corner of the residential property market in the UK – the leasehold system. Other press reports have…
Jobs to get done around your property this autumn
Don’t let the glorious summer we’ve just had lull you into a false sense of security. The coming winter is just as likely to throw its usual quota of storms,…
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