Landlord Insurance
Insure your investment property and landlord’s contents for insured events such as theft, fire7, storm7 and malicious damage.
A residential investment property needs to be appropriately insured.
Landlord Insurance can give you the confidence that your property will be covered should something go wrong. Ian Berry Landlord Insurance covers the property and/or the contents you provide for your tenant’s use from loss or damage by insured events.
To help you decide the cover you need, here’s a brief outline of the difference between buildings and contents cover.
Buildings
Designed to cover the physical structures that make up your property, like the house itself, garage, sheds, permanently installed swimming pools and decks.
Contents
Designed to cover items at your property – from furniture, white goods and removable domestic appliances which belong to you as the landlord and that you have provided for the use of your tenant. It also covers your carpets and window furnishings.
Cover for your investment property from insured events
Save up to 10% on your first year’s premium when you quote and buy a new landlord insurance policy online1,4
Pay by the month at no extra cost6
Features and benefits
The better you understand your policy, the easier it will be if you ever have to claim. Here is a limited summary of the benefits of a Landlord Insurance policy.
For full details of the standard terms, conditions, limits and exclusions that apply please read the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), any applicable supplementary PDS before making a decision to purchase the insurance.
The Landlord Buildings and Landlord Contents Key Fact Sheets (KFS) also set out some information about the cover.
Features and benefits
In the table below view the key features and benefits of Landlord Insurance.
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Rebuilding and professional fees - If you have buildings cover and need to rebuild your buildings after total loss or damage, Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will help pay the reasonable costs of architects, engineers, surveyors and solicitors up to $5,000. | |
Cover for the unexpected - Ian Berry Landlord Insurance offers cover for your investment property for out of the ordinary but devastating events such as fire7, storm7 and burglary. | |
Making your buildings environmentally friendly - If you have buildings cover and your buildings are totally destroyed and need to be rebuilt, in addition to your buildings sum insured, Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will pay up to $5,000 (after deduction of any government or council rebates) to help you make the new buildings more environmentally friendly. | |
Landlords Contents - Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will pay for repair or replacement of contents you own and provide for your tenant’s use as a result of an insured event. If you have buildings cover only, Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will pay up to the lesser of $10,000 or the remainder of the sum insured after payment of the buildings claim, for certain landlords contents under this additional benefit. | |
Rental costs after an insured event - If your buildings are damaged by an insured event and can’t be lived in by your tenant, or, access to or use of the buildings is not possible for at least 7 days after an insured event Allianz will pay for your loss of rent on the buildings for up to 12 months if you have buildings cover or if your building is part of a strata title development and you have contents cover only. | |
Debris removal - Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will cover up to 10% of the buildings and/or contents sum insured for removing debris from your insured address if your buildings are damaged or destroyed by an insured event. | |
Legal liability - Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will cover your legal liability up to $20 million for payment of compensation relating to death, bodily injury or illness, and/or physical loss of or damage to property caused by an accident (or series of accidents). If you have contents cover only, it does not cover any legal liability you may incur as owner of the buildings unless the buildings are defined as a lot. | |
24/7 online claims lodgement - When you need to make a claim Allianz are there for you with 24 hour claims lodgement available online, or you can call the claims line to commence the claims process over the phone. | |
Contents in the open air at the insured address - If you have contents cover, Ian Berry Landlord Insurance will cover contents in the open air (that you own and that you have provided for your tenants use) which have been lost or damaged by an insured event covered by your policy, up to a maximum amount of $1000. |
Optional Covers
Apply to add any of the optional covers in the table below for an additional premium and greater cover.
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Flood cover - Flood cover may be available as an optional cover to your buildings and/or contents. A 72 hour exclusion period applies.7 | |
Landlord workers’ compensation cover - Cover for the compensation amount you are liable to pay if you employ a domestic worker and they are injured while working for you at the insured address. Only available in ACT, WA and TAS. | |
Rent default and theft by tenant - Option to be covered for loss of rent due to specified rental defaults, up to $10,000 in total for all claims during the period of insurance. Cover for loss or damage to your insured buildings or contents caused by theft, burglary or housebreaking committed by your tenant or invitees of your tenant. |
Landlord Insurance Calculators
It’s up to you to decide the sums insured, and the type and level of cover that you want to take out. People generally want enough insurance to cover the property’s estimated replacement value. If you don’t have enough cover, you could end up having to cover some of the costs yourself. Remember, Allianz will only pay up to the amount of your loss or the sum insured, whichever is the lesser (subject to the policy terms and conditions) – so you should also be careful not to over insure. That’s why we’ve provided these calculators. They work as guides to help you estimate the replacement value of your landlord buildings and contents.
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Online discount
When you quote and buy a new Landlord Insurance policy online, a discount of up to 10% is applied to your first year’s premium including the following optional covers (if selected): Flood and Rent Default and Theft by Tenant. This discount isn’t applied on renewal.
Minimum premiums
If you are eligible for more than one discount, Allianz applies them in a predetermined order. This means any subsequent discount will be applied to the reduced premium amount after applying any prior discounts and the effect of the subsequent discount will be reduced. For example, the aggregate effect of applying two 10% discounts consecutively means that you will not see the full benefit of both these discounts.
Discounts do not apply to taxes or government charges.
Discounts do not apply to optional covers for Domestic Workers’ Compensation / Landlord Workers’ Compensation, and may not apply to other optional covers (if available and selected).
Any discounts/entitlements may be subject to rounding and may only apply to the extent that any minimum premium is not reached.
Instalment premiums
If you choose to pay your premium by instalments you do not pay us any more than if you pay your premium in one lump sum annually. The premiums payable by instalments may be subject to minor adjustments (upwards or downwards) due to rounding. Note: Your financial institution may apply transaction fees to instalment payments.
72 hour exclusion period
We may not provide cover for any loss of or damage to your property caused by cyclone, flood, grassfires and bushfires, during the first 72 hours after you first purchase a policy or increase your cover under an existing policy. Refer to PDS for when exclusion periods apply.