Home Insurance Discussion

Ningaloo

Used Quidco and the moneysaving guide to bring my insurance down from a renewal quote of £345 down to £245 for more cover with an additional saving of £35 cash-back. quite happy with that and looking forward to next year when I hope to get it even cheaper.

pigpen

I've just had my monthly premium increased by 5times through home protect too!!! Despicable.. I hate insurance quote finding!!

pigpen

I just rang home protect to tell them to strategically place their renewal quote in a place devoid of sunlight.. they are totally overrun with calls and cannot get through to their renewal team. I ended up getting through to the general customer service operative and cancelled without any argument or begging or anything.. I think they may have done this on purpose to downsize the company knowing with hiked fees there would be a huge number of people shopping elsewhere!


anyway.. £22 a month is way better than the £249!

dizzyblonderach

Hi,

I'm not sure if anyone can help with this, but I'm hoping to take advantage of Age Concern's £30 cashback on contents insurance. My insurance isn't due for renewal until mid-May, but I'm wondering whether if I purchase this today, I'll still get the £30 voucher? Thanks

dacouch

The best solution would be to give them a quick ring and ask them, I suspect they will agree to do it.

If they do take a note of the person's name and the date and time in case there is a query about it at a later date

Wolfsbane2k

Really annoyed - GoCompare highlighted Policy Expert's Home Select as a good price, reviewed the details etc, and it's good cover for £190.

Come back to MSE, use the £80 M&S link, and they refuse to quote.

That's just not playing ball - I'd of happily gone up the extra £20 for "Home Plus" if the £80 M&S credit was included

Next best is £244, with no chance of cashback

wolf12

Our home insurance is up for renewal soon. We are currently with Churchill and this will be the first time that I've shopped around to find a cheaper deal somewhere else (I know, I should have done it years ago, I'm new to MSE).

Just started a quote via GoCompare and Policy Expert have come back the cheapest - does anyone have any experience with them? I'm a bit reluctant about taking out insurance with someone who I haven't heard of before.

We are in flood risk area so there isn't alot of insurers who are willing to give us a quote.

Wolfsbane2k

Wolfsbane2k wrote: »

Really annoyed - GoCompare highlighted Policy Expert's Home Select as a good price, reviewed the details etc, and it's good cover for £190.

Come back to MSE, use the £80 M&S link, and they refuse to quote.

That's just not playing ball - I'd of happily gone up the extra £20 for "Home Plus" if the £80 M&S credit was included

Next best is £244, with no chance of cashback

Hahah.. just got a new quote with them as my other half, and despite identical setup, got a quote for £330 via the MSE link vs the original £190 via go-compare.

Definatley not playing ball!

rising_from_the_ashes

Kite2010 wrote: »

Home insurance renewal time, AA wanted ~ £164 to insure for another year. 2 minutes later via Go Compare (going via Topcashback for the extra £2) highlighted a couple companies high on the list.

Going via Topcashback deals with the entries high up, and the cheapest after cashback is LV @ £84, with better cover, and ~ £20 cashback.

Thanks - just got my renewal from Direct Line and it'd gone up to £275:mad: .... been with them several years but thought it was maybe time to do a couple of comparisons - OMG what a surprise I got!

Several quotes well over £100 cheaper :eek: and like for like quote* with LV was £121 :money:

*DL used to include home emergency but have decided we've to pay extra for that this year :mad:

Phone DL and they instantly took £70 off the price (which made me even madder - why shouldn't this have been the price of the renewal!)


Result - I've added Home Emergency cover to the LV quote - and I've still saved over £100! :T :money:

elle_may

Home renewal from Direct Line £119.98. Cheaper than last year. AA 100.29 plus free 12ths road recovery, hopefully £40 with cashback. This is with B/C cover, accidental damage, personal possessions worldwide. So i may only pay £60 all told, not bad for a few clicks and 5mins work.

Rang DL and said did not want to renew and without asking put renewal down to £108 if i wanted to come back to them. So please everybody don't be loyal to any company. Car insurance due next month, hope that's as fun too.