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Terms, conditions, limits and exclusions apply.
For full details, please read the Product Disclosure Statement.
Choose your cover
You can get home or contents cover separately, or combine them.
Home & Contents Insurance
Protect your most valuable asset and your belongings by combining home and contents insurance.
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Home Insurance
Covers loss or damage to your house and outbuildings due to events like storms, fire and theft, including the costs of repairs or rebuilding and temporary accommodation.
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Contents Insurance
Covers loss or damage to your home contents due to events like storms, fire and theft, including new-for-old replacement of items that can’t be repaired.
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Landlords and renters
Budget Direct home and contents insurance is not only for homeowners, but landlords and renters too.
Landlord Insurance
Covers loss or damage to your investment property and any contents you provide for your tenant’s use; and loss of rental income while your property is uninhabitable.
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Renter's Insurance
Covers loss or damage to the household goods and personal effects you own or are legally responsible for.
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Which type of home and contents insurance do I need?
Compare our products and choose one that suits you.
Insured events
Budget Direct home and contents insurance covers your house and personal possessions against loss or damage caused by the following insured events:
- Storm and rainwater (flood cover is optional)
- Fire
- Lightning
- Theft (or attempted theft)
- Escape of liquid (e.g. burst pipe)
- Impact at home (e.g. fallen tree)
- Breakage of glass, ceramic and sanitary fixtures
- Malicious damage, vandalism, riot or civil commotion
- Explosion
- Earthquake or tsunami
Upgrade your cover
For an additional premium, you can customise your home and contents insurance policies by adding one or more of the following optional covers:
How do I add an optional cover to my policy?
You can add one or more of these optional covers when you get a quote and buy a policy or – if you’ve already bought a policy – by contacting us or logging into your online account and editing your policy.
How much cover do I need?
It’s up to you to determine how much it would cost to replace your home and contents if they were totally destroyed, for example, by fire – the ‘sums insured’.
These are the maximum amounts we’ll pay, so it’s important you’re comfortable the sums insured you nominate are sufficient to replace your home and contents you wish to insure, at today's prices.
Get a quote online and save!
Getting a Budget Direct home insurance quote takes just a few minutes.
| Get a quote online and you’ll receive the following discount on your first year's premium for a new policy | |
|---|---|
| Home and Contents Insurance | 30%^ |
| Home Insurance | 15%^ |
| Contents Insurance | 15%^ |
Compare home insurance savings
In comparison to their previous insurers' premiums, customers across Australia who switched to Budget Direct Combined Home and Contents Insurance told us they saved an average of
$###†
Use our Comparitron™ tool to compare home insurance savings reported by our customers.
Award-winning Australian home insurance
After comparing the cost and features of 127 policies offered by 52 insurers, Canstar presented us with the National award for Outstanding Value Home & Contents Insurance for the fifth year in a row in 2021.
We’ve also won Money magazine’s Insurer of the Year title five years running (2017-21); and a Mozo Experts Choice award for Exceptional Value Home & Contents Insurance (2019 and 2020).
Find out more
The information on this page is a summary only. For more details about Budget Direct home and contents insurance, including the terms, conditions, limits and exclusions that apply, please read the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
How to make a claim
If your home and/or contents are lost, damaged or destroyed by an insured event and you need to claim, we’re here to help. Make a claim on your home insurance policy.
Frequently asked questions
What does home insurance cover?
‘Home insurance’ is an umbrella term that encompasses three variations of cover:
- Home and contents insurance covers your house and other structures on your property as well as your belongings for loss or damage due to events like fire, theft and storms.
- Home insurance covers your house and other structures on your property, including your garden shed, fences, and in-ground swimming pool.
- Contents insurance covers the belongings inside your home, including furniture, whitegoods, electrical appliances, clothing, and more.
Terms, conditions, limits and exclusions apply to Budget Direct home insurance; for full details, please read the product disclosure statement.
How can I get cheaper home insurance?
There are a number of ways you can reduce your Budget Direct home and/or contents insurance premium, including:
- Select the right level of cover: Our range of optional benefits means you don’t have to pay for cover you may not need, e.g. flood cover.
- Buy your policy online: If you get a quote and buy a policy online, you’ll receive a 15% (home or contents) or 30% (home and contents) discount on your premium.
- Increase your excess: Choose an excess between $100 and $5,000; by increasing your excess, you could lower your premium.
- Pay your premium annually: By paying annually instead of in instalments (i.e. fortnightly or monthly), you’ll pay a smaller premium and avoid administration fees.
When should I get home insurance?
It’s not a legal requirement, however your lawyer or conveyancer will usually recommend you insure your home (or investment property) when you exchange signed copies of the purchase contract with the seller.
Also, most mortgage lenders require you to take out insurance before the loan becomes unconditional.
Does home insurance cover floods?
Your home and/or contents can be covered for floods if you take out Budget Direct’s optional ‘Flood Cover’.
This cover protects you against loss or damage caused by flooding rivers, creeks, lakes, dams and other bodies of water.
You can apply to add Flood Cover to your home and/or contents insurance policy when you get a quote and buy insurance or – if you’ve already bought cover – by calling us on 1800 182 310 or logging into your online account and editing your policy.
If you meet our underwriting criteria, we’ll approve your application.
Note that your Flood Cover will take effect 72 hours after you add it to your policy, unless the policy:
- commenced immediately after another policy covering the same risks expired, without a break in cover
- commenced on the same day you bought your home or moved to a new address.
This is designed to stop people taking out cover immediately before anticipated floods and then claiming. This in turn helps keep your premiums down.
Does home insurance cover valuables I take with me away from my home?
We offer Personal Effects cover as an optional extra to cover your portable contents. This can cover a wide range of categories of belongings, including:
- bicycles
- clothing
- jewellery/watches
- musical instruments
- photographic equipment
- sporting equipment
- medical aids.
To find out how much this coverage might cost, you can get a quote online.
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*Based on a survey of Budget Direct Home Insurance customers conducted between 10 February 2015 and 30 June 2021. Visit www.budgetdirectreviews.com.au for more details.
|| Benefit capped at 10% of sum insured when your home is unliveable due to an insured event. Terms and conditions apply.
§ The addition of Flood Cover to a policy is subject to our underwriting criteria.
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‡Flood data based on analysis conducted by Auto & General Insurance Company Ltd. Subject to underwriting terms and conditions, please see PDS for details.
