Landlord Insurance

Tools to Help Your Business Prepare for the Bushfire Season

There are many useful and official resources to help businesses prepare for summer bushfire season and other risks.

Let's look at some of the resources you can access to help manage your natural disaster risks and why you might need them.

Misconceptions about Landlord Insurance Debunked

Landlord insurance isn’t set and forget. Many landlords assume their policy covers them if the property is untenanted, for pet damage, short-term rentals, and that it matches the tenancy period.

5 Top Tips about Landlord Insurance

Having landlord insurance isn’t a set-and-forget policy for property investors to protect their investment. Here are five tips to overcome common misconceptions about what landlord insurance actually covers.

Know your Obligations as a Commercial Property Owner

Leasing your commercial property can deliver higher yields, but comes with a range of responsibilities, including regulatory and legal ones. Here are the top four responsibilities explained.

Are you aware of the biggest commercial landlord risks?

While commercial landlords enjoy a return of up to 12% on their investment, the risks are higher than for residential property. Find out how to manage the biggest risks of owning a commercial property.

Get up to speed on commercial property insurance

You may know it as commercial building or business property insurance. Common among those titles is that it’s for non-residential properties – factories, warehouses, shopping centres, and whole unit and apartment blocks.

Your guide to landlord rights and regs around Australia in 2021

About one in ten of us are landlords, compared with one in 15 about two decades ago. And, the latest Census shows about a third of Australian households (2.6 million, to be specific) rent.

Landlord insurance demystified in under 3 minutes

Has COVID-19 made you unsure about managing the risks of owning an investment property? This article will update you on what landlord insurance will and won't cover in light of COVID-19. And, a forewarning, there are a lot of grey areas.

Landlord insurance is shorthand for building, contents or rental cover, or a mix of these for a property you rent out. The 'contents' in the property you rent out are the fixtures such as carpet and floor coverings, light fittings, appliances and window coverings. This doesn't cover your tenants' possessions.

Landlord Insurance at a glance

Like home insurance, landlord insurance can cover your rental property and its contents against risks like storms, floods, and fire. It can also cover the damage that tenants can cause to your contents - and even loss of rental income. 

Commercial Landlord Insurance - don't rely on a tenant to protect your assets

It’s common in commercial real estate leasing for a tenant to pay various outgoings related to the building and its use for the term of their tenancy. But is it a good idea to leave the responsibility of insurance coverage to them as well?