Home is where the heart is… not to mention all of your hard-earned furniture, technology, and reams of valuable personal possessions. Nothing could be more devastating than a bout of adverse weather flooding your house, causing devastating damage to both property and possessions. Yet a recent study by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has […]
Thinking of Airbnb – don’t ignore the insurance risk
Have you considered joining the ‘sharing economy’ and renting out your house or spare room on Airbnb? According to The Telegraph, nearly 80,000 UK homeowners are using this popular online rental marketplace to rent all or part of their home for additional income, a number which has almost doubled year on year. Airbnb is a […]
Meet Robert Turner
Meet Robert Turner, at the end of 2014 his home was devastated by a fire that left no room untouched. The repairs to Robert’s home are now complete, so Aviva visited him in the Isle of Wight and met many of the people involved in giving him back a beautiful home. Aviva Claims Story It’s […]
How Burglar-proof is Your Home?
We’ve seen a recent rise in theft claims both in our clients’ homes and businesses. It seems the burglars are getting ever more audacious in their attempts to steal; from breaking into one of our client’s property whilst they were asleep upstairs to spending 3 hours methodically going through a client’s business premises and even […]
Would your Country Estate Insurance cope with this level of devastation?
A recent devastating fire at a beautiful country estate in Hampshire gives a timely reminder of the need for an insurance cover that protects your country estate properly. The fire at Clandon Park, a Grade I-listed, National Trust mansion near Guildford, Surrey, on 29 April, gutted the house. Starting in the basement (possibly from an […]