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A_Lert
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I'm supporting a family member through their first house purchase, which is being paid for outright (no mortgage).
The information I have is she should have buildings insurance in place when contracts are exchanged, but I'm feeling clueless about the process of doing this. We don't yet know the date for exchange. Do we need to know this before getting quotes? What happens if the exchange is delayed? Is there anything else I need to be aware of that would differ from getting a "regular" quote for insuring a house I already own?
I've had a Google and didn't find much useful.
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She can shop around in advance without needing an exact date. Her solicitor will tell her when exchange is going to happen, she doesn't need much advance notice to put the policy in place.0
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I exchanged a week ago. I went on to comparison sites a few weeks before using a guestimated date to get quotes. Once my solicitor told me when we going to exchange I bought my chosen policy.
Leave purchasing the policy until you are as sure as can be that exchange is definitely going to happen.
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Google, insurance comparison, buy insurance. Complete1
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I got caught out by accepting the very cheapest quote from a comparison site. When I had to claim I realised they were very cheap for a reason.
If you do use a comparison website and have a few choices of company to insure with, I would recommend looking at their 'one star' reviews on Trustpilot - normally from people having difficulty with claims.£216 saved 24 October 20140 -
youth_leader said:I got caught out by accepting the very cheapest quote from a comparison site. When I had to claim I realised they were very cheap for a reason.
If you do use a comparison website and have a few choices of company to insure with, I would recommend looking at their 'one star' reviews on Trustpilot - normally from people having difficulty with claims.0 -
Thanks all. Sounds like I was overthinking it a bit then.
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Make sure you don't under insure the property ?
Are you getting a survey ?
What does it say about rebuilding costs ?
Consider NFU insurance0 -
When I last bought, my lender, the Nationwide, offered cover from exchange to completion if I insured with 'em. So I did, for the 1st year; then bailed out back to AVIVA. Cos although Nationwide have been a fantastic lender over my 30+ years with them (great rates, flexibility, porting and latterly, lifetime loans that aren't rip off Equity Release deals), AVIVA have been an equally fantastic insurer0
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