Insurance for your home and its contents
Home is where you and your loved ones live and where your most valued possessions are usually kept, so it’s important to consider protecting your home in case of damage or theft. Whether you live in a cottage, mansion, terraced house, or a suburban semi-detached, Intasure can tailor cover to help provide suitable insurance for your home and contents.
What is home insurance?
Home insurance, otherwise known as house insurance, helps to provide financial protection in the event of damage or loss caused by factors such as theft fire, storm, flooding, and malicious damage.
Why is home insurance important?
You love your home and cherish your belongings, so it’s natural to worry about the cost of major repairs or replacing precious possessions.
Suitable home insurance can help to take away those worries. The threat of fire, floods and storms, theft, or malicious damage won’t go away. But if something does happen, it can be reassuring to know you have cover in place should you need to make a claim.
Do I need home insurance?
There’s no legal obligation to have home insurance, but many people choose to have suitable protection in place. In some cases buildings cover is required by mortgage lenders as part of the terms of providing finance. The type of insurance you may want depends on the kind of resident you are:
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Exceptionally fast and efficient service from Nikki Hickmott. I was in a hurry to cover my house in France and it was sorted within the hour. Brilliant service.
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What types of home insurance can I get?
Our buildings insurance provides cover for the structure of the building itself plus permanent fixtures attached to the home. This includes baths and other bathroom fittings, fitted kitchens, and items that cannot reasonably be removed and taken to another home. Buildings insurance helps to protect your home against fire, lightning, explosion, and earthquake, as well as storm, flood, and damage caused weight of snow.
Contents insurance provides cover for your household goods, valuables, and personal belongings within the home. In rented accommodation, it can cover you, as the tenant, for damage to interior decorations and your home improvements. This cover can help protect you if there’s a break-in or if something is damaged. We even provide cover for the food in a freezer if it breaks down.
Combined home insurance
Combined home insurance is a single home insurance policy providing cover for both the building and its contents. Rather than paying for individual policies separately, you can combine everything you need into one policy. This could help you save money too.
Policy limits and exclusions may apply, please see our policy wording for full terms and conditions.
What does home insurance cover?
Intasure buildings and contents insurance includes the following as standard:
Optional extras
We can help tailor your home insurance further with a range of cover extensions at an additional price including:
Additional optional add on products are also available:
How much does home insurance cost?
Many different factors combine to determine the cost of home insurance. Before providing your personal quote, a number of factors are assessed, including:
What types of home insurance are available?
Standard home insurance isn’t always the appropriate choice. At Intasure, we offer cover for different types of homes. Please talk to our team and we’ll help you find a suitable policy.
Listed Home Insurance
This insurance takes into account the higher cost of repairs to properties of historical or cultural significance that are on the Listed Buildings register. You can find out if your property is on the Listed Buildings register with a simple online search.
Holiday home insurance
Protecting the property you use for holidays, whether in the UK or overseas, with a holiday home insurance policy from Intasure can be simple and offers peace of mind.
Second home insurance
If you own a second home, regular home insurance may not be suitable. The risks can differ and a second home insurance policy from Intasure takes account of this. If there’s a break-in, for example, a second home could be left unsecured for an extended period.
Flat insurance
Flat insurance can still offer buildings and contents cover, but it’s tailored specifically to the risks associated with owning or renting a flat, rather than a house. Speak to the Intasure team to help provide you with suitable cover, whether you’re a tenant or flat owner.
Specialist home insurance
If your home is out of the ordinary, talk to the Intasure team and we’ll look to tailor a home insurance policy to suit. It may be old or architecturally distinguished. It could be different in design, building materials, or location.
Expat home insurance
If you live overseas, you can still protect your property with our trusted team at Intasure. Our expat home insurance, covering both building and contents, is available in over 20 countries and territories in Europe and beyond.
Why choose Intasure for home emergency cover?
Our UK-based team is on hand to help you find home emergency cover for your property. If you need to make a claim, you can depend on our friendly in-house team to handle your request quickly and politely. Change your mind? It happens. That’s why we don’t add any admin fees in the event of a cancellation. It’s because of service like this that 95% of our customers recommend us on Reviews.co.uk.
Cover overseas
We provide cover in more than 20 countries and territories
UK teams
We have an in-house UK-based customer service team
English documents
We provide all policy documents and communications written in English
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We are rated ‘Excellent’ on Reviews.io, with 96% of reviewers recommending us*
*correct as at January 2024
What do you need to get a home insurance quote?
There is no one-size-fits-all quote, but at Intasure the process of getting a home insurance quote is simple. Get in touch and we’ll ask about you, your property, and the level of cover you want.
You can also fill in our online quote form if you already have the necessary details to hand. We’ll need you to tell us about your home and the level of cover you’re after, as well as some personal details about yourself.
FAQs
Please note that these frequently asked questions are not a substitute for the policy wording. For full terms and conditions, please see the policy documentation.
Our mission as second home insurance specialists
We comprise of an in-house team of sales, renewals, customer service, claims, and underwriting specialists. Our aim is to help you find property insurance that suits your needs.
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Specialist second home insurance from Intasure
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