Tag: Home Insurance

Home Maintenance Checklist – Are you Winter-ready?

Aviva has urged homeowners to get prepared with a winter-ready checklist with seventy percent of homeowners admit to ignoring property problems because they’d rather spend their time and money on other things! The recent study of 2,000 homeowners shows property maintenance is way down many people’s priority lists. Aviva found: •More than a quarter of… Read more »

Anyone Home?

With many shoppers awash with bargain purchases from Black Friday and the festive season now upon us, our local police force, Leicestershire Police, have issued a timely guide as to how to protect your home and belongings from burglars. Keep doors and windows locked at all times- even if you pop outside to the garden… Read more »

Avoiding a Wardobe Malfunction

Allianz’s research into the nation’s wardrobe contents highlights just how important home insurance can be for you. The contents of your wardrobes are worth an eye-watering £38.5 billion according to the insurer’s ‘Britain’s cost of a wardrobe’ report. The report looked at the nation’s shopping habits and found that the average wardrobe is worth £769…. Read more »

Save Money through Risk Prevention

AXA research has revealed that investing in preventative measures to mitigate risks to people’s homes and cars could save UK households £209 a year – an aggregate total of £5.6 billion. Collectively motorists can save £4.96 billion and home owners £620.20 million per year by investing in risk prevention to further protect their vehicles and… Read more »

Aviva reveals Most Iconic Gadgets from the last Thirty Years

One of P F Spare Insurance Brokers’ panel insurers, Aviva, has taken a trip down memory lane to reveal some of the most iconic inventions of the last few decades. A nostalgic poll of 2,000 UK adults reveals the most iconic gadget of the 80s as the personal stereo, while the laptop takes the title… Read more »

Do you have a home office, wine fridge or children’s play room?

Does your home have an AGA cooker or Belfast sink in the kitchen, a rainforest shower in the wet room or an extensive vinyl collection in the drawing room? Chances are you’re one of the growing numbers of ‘mid-net-worth’ households, according to LV= Home Insurance. Research by the home insurer has found that the doubling… Read more »

LV= Broker ABC Home Cover Enhanced

LV= Broker is enhancing its ABC Home buildings and contents product, available through P F Spare, to provide clients with increased benefits and flexibility – all under one policy. Under its ABC contents product, the insurer is offering increased enhancements for customers who take out contents cover over the £75,000 threshold. LV= Broker has also… Read more »

AXA to publish Claims Statistics

AXA, one of the insurers on behalf of whome we arrange personal and commercial insurance policies, has today announced that, with immediate effect, it will be publishing statistics which confirm a high proportion of claims are paid for all its motor, home and travel customers. The statistics will be supported by information to help customers… Read more »

Weather Warning for the Weekend of 5 and 6 December

Ageas, an insurer which provides home insurance for brokers such as P F Spare Insurance Brokers, have released the followng announcement which we felt it important to share with our customers. South westerly gales are expected to affect much of the country during Saturday, easing during the first part of Sunday. This may result in… Read more »

Home Buying: The £6,500 Gap

The average first-time buyer under-budgets by £6,481 when buying a first house, according to new research from home insurer, Aviva. Almost three quarters of the 2,000 home-owners surveyed under-estimated the costs needed to buy a first home, with most of those saying they had only planned for the deposit. First-time buyers typically take nearly four… Read more »