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Building Insurance

Our Residential Building Insurance policy covers you for unexpected events that damage your building, such as fire, storm and flood, as well as loss or damage caused by tenants or unknown persons.

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What's Covered

Damage from unexpected events

Protects your property against loss or damage caused by:

  • Fire (including bushfire) or explosion
  • Storm or rainwater
  • Flood
  • Escape of Liquid
  • Lightning
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  • We do not insure you for bushfire, storm, flood or tsunami in the first 72 hours of your policy. Very limited exceptions apply. Read the PDS for more detail.

Damage caused by tenants, visitors or unknown persons

Protects your property against:

  • Accidental loss or damage
  • Tenant damage
  • Break-in vandalism or theft

Loss of rental income

Up to 52 weeks

If your building is damaged by an insured event and becomes untenantable for more than 7 days, we’ll cover your loss of rent for up to 52 weeks (and no more than $50,000 per year for holiday rental properties).

Also covers

We cover your legal liability for an occurrence that causes death or bodily injury to other people, or damage to other people’s property, up to the limit of $20 million.

This content applies to new policies and renewal policies commenced or renewed on or after 29 March 2021.

For full details of our policies we recommend you read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement.
The Target Market Determination is also available.

Details of what's covered

Building

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Choose cover between $100,000 and $2,000,000

Insured Events
Sub-limit
Fire (including bushfire) or explosion
Storm or rainwater
Flood
Escape of Liquid
Lightning
Earthquake or tsunami
Impact
Accidental glass breakage
Riot, civil commotion or public disturbance
Oil leakage from any heater
Electric motor burnout
Up to $2,000 per claim
Accidental loss or damage
Tenant damage
Break-in vandalism or thefts

Loss of Rental Income

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Insured Events
Limit
Untenantable
Up to 52 weeks loss of rent (and no more than $50,000 per year for holiday rental properties)

Other

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Insured Events
Limit
Legal Liability
Up to $20million in legal liability

Building

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Choose cover between $100,000 and $2,000,000

Insured Events
Limit
Fire (including bushfire) or explosion
Storm or rainwater
Flood
Escape of Liquid
Lightning
Earthquake or tsunami
Impact
Accidental glass breakage
Riot, civil commotion or public disturbance
Oil leakage from any heater
Electric motor burnout
Up to $2,000 per claim
Accidental loss or damage
Tenant damage
Break-in vandalism or theft

Loss of Rental Income

Show Detail
Insured Events
Limit
Untenable
Up to 52 weeks loss of rent (and no more than $50,000 per year for holiday let properties)

Other

Show Detail
Insured Events
Limit
Legal Liability
Up to $20million in legal liability

This content applies to new policies and renewal policies commenced or renewed on or after 29 March 2021.

For full details of our policies we recommend you read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement.
The Target Market Determination is also available.

Why Building Insurance is important

You can’t control the weather or other unexpected events like theft or accidents. But you can protect yourself against the loss and damage they cause. Our Residential Building Insurance policy provides cover for the cost to repair damage, as well as the loss of rent you incur whilst the repairs are being undertaken.

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Building Insurance is rated 4.7 out of 5 by 195.
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Building Insurance Easy to navigate website, quick and very competitively priced.
Date published: 2020-01-07
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Date published: 2019-12-10
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Date published: 2019-11-16
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Date published: 2019-11-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Landlord Building Insurance Good price (much better than the company I have been with for many years who put the annual premium up $200 in one year despite no claims ever) and the new cover was easy to complete online.
Date published: 2019-11-09
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Fast and easy to obtain quote and purchase online Just went on to their website and was able to easily obtain a quote and purchase there and then. Cover is comparable to all the major insurers and comes with a discount when bundled with our landlord insurance.
Date published: 2019-10-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Good Product Choice for Landlords Website was easy to navigate to find the appropriate product/choice of insurance.
Date published: 2019-10-04
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Date published: 2019-09-11
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Date published: 2019-08-25
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Date published: 2019-08-21
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Date published: 2019-07-28
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Date published: 2019-07-27
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Landlord insurance Simple and straight forward you don,t have jump through a thousand hoops! I have not yet made a claim so that is why I put 4 stars. As they say the proof is in the pudding. ..
Date published: 2019-07-24
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Date published: 2019-07-18
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Date published: 2019-07-17
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Best value for money I changed my policy from another provider and i wish i could of done it earlier.
Date published: 2019-06-27
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Building insurance Have just completed purchasing my building insurance to combine with my landlord insurance
Date published: 2019-06-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Happy with the service provided The product provided more than I required for a very reasonable price
Date published: 2019-06-12
Rated 3 out of 5 by from Easy to understand Policy is well explained, easy to understand. Content policy is less flexible in choosing amount to be insured. Minimum $60,000 is too high for me and it doesn’t allow to choose different excess amount.
Date published: 2019-05-25
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Date published: 2019-05-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great insurance product Good price. Website easy to use.Will be using for my other properties.
Date published: 2019-05-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great price great insurance After comparing price and inclusions this seems like good value.
Date published: 2019-05-06
Rated 4 out of 5 by from straightforward. should have bought the combined insurance outright
Date published: 2019-04-16
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Date published: 2019-03-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Good policy Easy to use straight forward policy. The consultant was most helpful and attentive.
Date published: 2019-03-04
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Good value building insurance Bought this insurance for my investment property because it represented the best value for the coverage obtained over all the major insurance players.
Date published: 2019-02-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great website, products and process Used the website to get a quote then visited some others and came straight back. Cheapest quote, best cover, least painful process.
Date published: 2019-02-18
Rated 4 out of 5 by from Great product I used Terri Scheer for my first Apartment and am using them again for the second property.
Date published: 2019-02-04
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Date published: 2018-11-30
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Date published: 2018-11-29
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