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Our residential policy covers your most important asset: your home.
Nothing beats the feeling of owning your own home. As well as the biggest asset you’ll probably ever own, it’s often the result of many years of saving and planning.
With Vero Home Cover, we make it easy to insure your prized possession. You can choose from two levels of cover – Maxi or Flexi – and tailor your insurance to a Sum Insured value specified by you.
Document PDF House Insurance policy wording
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Cover for Replacement
If you have Maxi House cover and your home is irreparably damaged, we can replace it, as new, up to the sum insured.
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We protect more than just your house
Other things that are within your residential boundary are protected too – like driveways, swimming pools and retaining walls.
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We’ll help you with alternative accommodation
If your home becomes unliveable, we’ll cover the cost of temporary accommodation for up to 12 months.
10% Extra cover for no extra cost
With our Maxi House cover, you may qualify for SumExtra. This gives you up to 10% more cover than your sum insured value in a natural disaster (e.g. earthquake, tsunami), and full repair or replacement for other insured events (e.g. flood, fire).
Up to 10% off by combining house and contents
When insuring your most valuable assets, it's worth getting expert advice from an insurance broker or adviser. They will work with you closely to understand your needs, identify risks that are specific to you and advise you on the right cover.
Just as contents policies have always specified a maximum amount of total cover, now home insurance policies do too. It’s called Sum Insured.
Of course, you’ll need to know an accurate figure for your home to make sure you have enough cover if you need to repair or rebuild it. An accurate Sum Insured also means that you only pay for the cover you actually need.
You can calculate your Sum Insured online yourself, or ask a professional to help.
The Cordell Calculator helps you crunch the numbers for your home insurance online. Based on typical rebuild costs, it will help you calculate the Sum Insured.
It’s independent, easy to use, and only takes five minutes online.
Qualifying for SumExtra
By updating your Sum Insured based on a professional estimate or Cordell calculation, you may also qualify for SumExtra. That means your insurance cover goes even further, with 10% more cover for natural disasters and full replacement cover for damage caused by events like fire, storm or flood.
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Special savings for clubs, organisation & groups
Vero Consumer Insurance Specialists (CIS) offers great savings and deals for affiliated clubs, organisations and groups and their members.
Was your house built before 1945?
If your property was built before 1945 it might not be automatically covered, so it’s really important you give us all the information we need so we can let you know.
Unless customers have been advised otherwise, this new Vero Residential Home policy wording applies to new Home policies where cover commences from 1 July 2019 or existing Home policies that renew from 1 July 2019. For Vero customers, a summary of key changes from your previous Residential Home Policy can be found here:
Document PDFVero Personal Insurance policy change summary
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We understand rural life too
With our Agriplan policy, you can cover all risks from your home and boat through to livestock, equipment, buildings, and even business interruption.
Excesses, terms, conditions, limits and exclusions apply to these policies. Please check the policy wording for details of cover. The provision of cover is subject to the underwriting criteria that apply at the time.
Our website provides general information about our products and services to help you make choices when it comes to protecting the things in life and business that really matter. The information doesn’t take into account your personal circumstances, needs or goals and is not intended to be financial advice. We recommend that before you purchase insurance, you get professional advice from a broker or adviser who’s registered under the Financial Advisers Act 2008.
