The Random Question of the Day Thread...

[Troopy_03]

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[Fizzie]

Just in the process of renewing H&C Ins.

Ing put their renewal up by ~$600 (or a tidy 24%!!! ) & when I rang them to ask if anything could be done as I've been with them for 7 years, basically couldn't give two hoots , so looks like time to move on!

Currently looking at Budget Direct & need to set a building value.

Anybody got a current $ / m² figure to work with?

[Rowlie]

Just in the process of renewing H&C Ins.

Ing put their renewal up by ~$600 (or a tidy 24%!!! ) & when I rang them to ask if anything could be done as I've been with them for 7 years, basically couldn't give two hoots , so looks like time to move on!

Currently looking at Budget Direct & need to set a building value.

Anybody got a current $ / m² figure to work with?

Fizzie,

When I played in the insurance space we relied on Cordells valuation tools. I just visited the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) website and low and behold there is an online tool that serves your purpose and guess what - it is Cordells.

For my money -do your homework and check the PDS against the premium before you reach your ultimate decision. There are vast differences between policies.

Rowlie

[GeoffA]

Just in the process of renewing H&C Ins.

Ing put their renewal up by ~$600 (or a tidy 24%!!! ) & when I rang them to ask if anything could be done as I've been with them for 7 years, basically couldn't give two hoots , so looks like time to move on!

Currently looking at Budget Direct & need to set a building value.

Anybody got a current $ / m² figure to work with?

Recently went through this process.

Budget Direct seemed cheaper on first look, but by the time it was like-for-like the price was much the same as our current insurer.

I found that the premium for building insurance could be reduced quite a bit by increasing the excess.
I wouldn't claim for relatively minor incidents anyway, so no issue.

The same approach didn't make much difference to the contents insurance premium, so left the excess as it was.

Good luck with it....

 

[Fizzie]

Thanks Geoff

Yeah, Budget had a 30% discount for new online accounts so took advantage of that, but their normal price would have only been <$100 from ING.

But as you say, increasing the excess had quite an effect - going from $1000 to $5000 dropped the premium by ~$500!, then contents from $500 to $750 was another $50

Oh, while I think, my original question seems to work out at ~$3000/m²!