Florida homeowners have spent years paying some of the highest homeowner-insurance premiums in the nation. But the market is slowly stabilizing and there are concrete, immediate steps homeowners can take to shrink premiums — from simple paperwork to Florida’s “My Safe Florida Home” program — while shopping smarter for companies that combine strong service with […]
According to a recent report by The Zebra, the average homeowner is paying roughly $3,000 a year for homeowners insurance. Unfortunately, this is just the nationwide average, in many states premiums are dramatically higher for most homeowners. According to the Zebra report, the most expensive states for homeowners insurance are: Nebraska: $7,920 Oklahoma: $7,426 Kansas: […]
While states like Florida, California and Louisiana have seen climbing insurance costs for years due to severe weather, flooding and hurricanes, other states, Colorado and Illinois are good examples, are seeing climbing rates as well due to hailstorms and wildfires. As homeowner’s insurance premiums skyrocket, for some policyholders, the math no longer makes sense forcing […]
Owning a home is becoming harder to afford for many Americans, in many cases due to the high cost of homeowners insurance. A recent report found that energy companies are responsible for a large amount of the pollution that is leading to climate change and more extreme weather, wildfires and flooding. A report recently released […]
According to a recent Realtor.com article, homeowners in Florida, at least some of them, may finally seem some relief from higher homeowner insurance costs. Florida Peninsula Insurance which is one of the largest private party property insurers recently announced that it is hoping to significantly lower premiums for roughly 170,000 policyholders. Florida Peninsula has filed […]
According to a recent study by Insurify, homeowners in every state will be paying more for insurance coverage by the end of the year. The study found that climate change fueled natural disaster are the main cause of ever-increasing homeowner premiums. Wildfires out west, hailstorms in the Midwest and hurricanes and flooding in the South […]
According to a recent study that was reported on in the Houston Chronicle, almost half of all Texas homeowner insurance claims were closed without any payment to the homeowner. A company called Weiss Ratings was in charge of the study and they found that 47% of claims filed by Texas homeowners have been closed by […]
A homeowner in North Carolina was greeted with a nasty surprise this year, a 41% increase in his insurance premium. On average, homeowners in North Carolina saw a rate jump of 7.5% on June 1st due to a settlement reached by the North Carolina Department of Insurance but this certainly doesn’t explain a 41% increase. Doug Corkhill is […]
A recent report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies found that U.S. homebuying has dropped to its lowest levels since the mid-1990s. The report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2025 blames record high real estate prices combined with higher interests for the drop in home sales. While high home prices and elevated interest rates […]
Insurance rates are rising at unprecedented rates, causing millions of people to struggle with the new premiums. In the last three years, insurance rates have doubled in some areas. Homeowners fear for their houses while their representatives in Congress struggle to help. Insurers are pulling out of states like Florida as damaging hurricanes and powerful […]