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What’s covered by landlord insurance?
Compare all benefits, features and claim limits
Terms, conditions, limits and exclusions apply.
For full details, please read the Product Disclosure Statement.
Note that, while we do not insure strata-title buildings, we do cover their contents.
Compare all benefits, features and claim limits
Terms, conditions, limits and exclusions apply.
For full details, please read the Product Disclosure Statement.
Note that, while we do not insure strata-title buildings, we do cover their contents.
Insured events
Budget Direct landlord insurance covers your investment property and any contents you own 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 landlord insurance by adding one or more of the following optional covers to your policy:
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 investment property and any contents you own 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 property and contents you wish to insure, at today’s prices.
Use these calculators to help you estimate the cost of replacing your property and contents
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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
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Use our Comparitron™ tool to compare home insurance savings reported by our customers.
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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.
How to make a claim
If your investment property and/or contents are lost, damaged or destroyed by an insured event and you need to make a claim, we’re here to help. Make a claim on your landlord insurance policy.
Award-Winning Australian home insurance
After comparing the cost and features of 72 policies, from 50 other insurers, Canstar presented us with the National award for Outstanding Value Home & Contents Insurance for the seventh year in a row in 2023.
We’ve also won Money magazine’s Insurer of the Year title seven years running (2017–2023); Best of the Best title for Home & Contents Insurance in 2022 & 2023; and Finder's 2023 Best Home Insurance - Value award.
Frequently asked questions
I'm a landlord — what am I covered for?
Budget Direct home insurance covers you for, among other things:
- loss or damage to your investment property
- loss or damage to floor coverings, internal window coverings, and light fittings — up to 5% of your home sum insured
- loss of net rental income for the period your property is unliveable due to an insured event — up to 10% of your sum insured.
You can also, for an additional premium, add one or both of these optional landlord covers to your insurance policy:
- Tenant default — in case your tenant fails to pay their rent or leaves unexpectedly
- Theft and malicious damage by tenants — covers theft or damage by your tenants and their visitors — When we insure your home, we will pay up to $150,000 and when we insure your contents, we will pay up to $20,000.
Does home insurance cover lost rental income?
Yes – you are covered for the loss of net rental income for the period your Budget Direct-insured property is unliveable due to an insured event – up to 10% of your home sum insured.
You can also, for an additional premium, add one of our optional landlord covers to your insurance policy. These covers include ‘Tenant Default’, in case your tenant fails to pay their rent or leaves unexpectedly. Upon acceptance of your claim, we will pay up to the amount stated on your Insurance Certificate, less the basic and additional excesses.
Does Budget Direct offer strata-title insurance?
We do not insure strata-title buildings, however we do provide personal and landlord contents cover for items within the insured premises, conditions apply to coverage of contents in common areas.
I'm a landlord – do I have to provide you with a copy of the rental agreement?
You won’t need to provide us with a copy of your rental agreement when you buy Budget Direct home and/or contents insurance.
However, because our acceptance of landlord claims is conditional on a rental agreement being in place, we’ll need to see a copy of the agreement if you lodge a claim.
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.
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§ The addition of Flood Cover to a policy is subject to our underwriting criteria.
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