Tips and guides

If you want great cover at a great price, shopping around for home insurance quotes is always a good idea – whether you’re looking for buildings insurance, contents insurance, or both. Here are our top tips to help you pay less for your home insurance next time you’re due to renew.

As a car owner, you have the freedom of the open road, but there are some costs involved that you can’t escape. We’re talking car insurance, car tax, fuel costs, the yearly MOT, breakdown cover and repairs. They all add up and, if you’re over 60 and trying to top up your pension pot, you may be wondering if there’s a way you can reduce your car insurance.

No one likes the thought of a thief rifling through their belongings and stealing anything they can lay their hands on. If you have a garage that’s full of tools, lawnmowers, bikes and other valuables, you’ll want to make sure that you have garage insurance. This will ensure that, if your garage is broken into, you won’t lose out financially.

Mishaps can happen in your home, whether it’s a glass of red wine spilt on a carpet or a broken window. The consequences can be expensive, though, so it helps if you have accidental damage insurance. In this guide, we’ll explain everything you need to know about accidental damage cover.

When it comes to owning a car, there are some costs that you can’t avoid paying, with car insurance at the top of the list. With car insurance, you have three options: comprehensive, third party, and third party fire and theft cover. Comprehensive insurance offers the highest level of cover, with third party offering the lowest.

There are over 200,000 homes in the UK that have been empty for at least six months. There are many reasons these homes may be standing empty, but just because a house is unoccupied, it doesn't mean you don’t need insurance. In this guide, we explain how unoccupied house insurance works.