Month-to-month insurance for a residential buildings that comprise a dwelling residence. It may be your intention to sell the property and undertake some cosmetic enhancements, but as long as it’s capable and intended to be a domestic residence then this cover will work for you.
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A flip is a residential building that you’ve purchased with the intention of selling at some point in the future. They can be:
We provide cover for the residential home while you’re doing renovation works, but it’s important to know when we can’t cover your home.
Cover is provided while Cosmetic Renovations are being undertaken. This is work that does not involve structural alterations or changes to the house or work that does not require a building consent.
Cosmetic renovation examples
• Painting
• Installing new carpet
• Removing a non-load bearing wall
• Doing up a bathroom (e.g new hand-basin, shower)
We cannot provide cover to houses that are undertaking Structural or water tightness renovations, or where a building consent is required. You’ll most likely need a separate contract works insurance policy for that also includes cover for the existing structure.
Renovation examples we can’t cover
× Re-roofing, re-cladding or changing joinery
× Adding onto the property
× Removing a load bearing wall or beam
× Where a building consent is required
To get cover for a house undertaken the above you would usually require a contract works insurance policy, we’ve partnered with Builtin who offers this type of cover. Through Builtin you may also need to arrange cover for the existing structure as well as the building works. Like initio, BuiltIn are underwritten by IAG.
We cannot provide cover for buildings / houses that are not:
× Self contained or liveable (ie they do not have the necessities of day to day living such as cooking, sleeping, ablutions)
× Not intended by the owner to be a home (ie where the primary purpose is not to be domestic residence).
The standard policy excess is set at $5,000
If your house is fitted with an active monitored alarm or security system, the standard excess reduces to $1,000 for break-in or burglary.
It’s online and it’s easy. Purchase cover with month-to-month payments so you don’t need to fork out a full year’s premium up front.
When your house is sold, simply login and stop the cover.
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Cover up to your chosen Replacement Sum Insured.
All the important including like Fire, Earthquake and Floods
Staged furniture
Cover from $20,000 - $60,000
Malicious Fire & Explosion covered up to
the full replacement sum insured
Cover for break-in losses.
$5,000 excess, reducing to $1,000 if monitored alarm installed
$2 million of cover
Includes Bodily Injury and Defence Costs
Includes EQC Cover
Plus top up to the replacement sum insured
Included up to $25,000
What this cover is designed for.
Cover up to your chosen replacement sum insured
Go to our quote calculator, enter the details of your property and select the property description as a Trade Property
You’ll have a quote in just seconds, which you can insure in a few quick minutes.
You’ll need to choose a replacement sum insured that’s enough to fully demolish and rebuild your house to its existing size (using today’s building costs).
If you’re unsure what the rebuild costs would be, we recommend using the Cordell SumSure Calculator to help get an estimate.
See here for our full guide on choosing your sum insured.
For trade properties you will need to purchase a monthly policy on a debit or credit card.
We then automatically charge the card each month on the renewal date, and send you email confirmations each tome we do this.
Once the property is sold, you can log in to your initio dashboard and cancel the policy. A refund will be paid for the unused portion of the premium and the monthly payments will stop.
For more information on our monthly insurance payment method please see here.
Yes, the general rule of thumb is that there’s cover for cosmetic renovations. This is things like a kitchen refit, carpet replacement, painting, installing new bathrooms.
If you are doing major structural alterations that involve changes to the structural elements of the house you will not have cover. For construction related work a contract works insurance policy is required.
If you are unsure if the work you are doing is structural or cosmetic, please contact us.
The standard excess for Trade Property claims is $5,000.
For burglary, break-in or attempted break-in claims this excess will reduce to $1,000 if at the time of the incident you have a monitored, audible alarm operating at the property.
Yes, you automatically receive $20,000 of contents cover and this can include staged furniture if the property is being advertised for sale.
You can choose to increase this contents cover amount up to a maximum of $60,000.
Simply login to your initio dashboard and select the cancel cover option on the right hand side of the policy.
We will automatically pay you a proportionate refund for the remaining unused days of the policy cover. All future monthly payments are then stopped.
No. If your intent is to demolish the current buildings on the property, then we are unable to provide cover.