Insurances

  • What can be insured and for how much?
    • You can get quotes from insurance websites pretty quickly
  • Flooding
  • Other natural disasters like fires
  • Broken pipes
  • Theft and damages
  • Building failure

  • Home and contents
    • Contents has minimum 10,000 usually
    • Certain unique situations may mean insurers won’t touch you
      • Flooding detected somewhere on the property
        • A certain Carseldine property intersects with the flood map in the corner
      • Freehold townhouses
    • They care about security as well like grates on windows, deadlocks and alarms
  • If you are part of a body corporate there would be insurance across the entire place
  • You are liable for insurance a day after signing the offer not on settlement
    • Luckily if the offer falls through there is a 14 day cooling off period so you can cancel the insurance and get a full refund