Property insurance which can cover second homes such as weekend or weekday homes.
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If you have any questions about our policy or if you need to make a change, our friendly customer service team is available Mon - Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat 9am - 1 pm.
Our friendly and helpful claims team are available 5 days a week, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Add cover for home emergencies to your policy.
We specialise in providing cover where other insurance providers may not.
This policy provides contents cover up to £100,000. You must lock all of your doors and windows when you leave the home for this cover to remain valid.
Our policy recognises the most common claims and therefore includes malicious damage as standard.
We include escape of water cover as standard on our policies.
As you may not be at your second home all the time, they can be common targets for thieves. We include cover for theft or attempted theft as standard on our policies subject to security conditions being met.
When you need to make a claim, we'll guide you through the process and get your claim settled as quickly as possible.
We have a policy specifically for those who have lodgers in their home. That way you can be covered for the additional risks associated with having a lodger in your home. You can contact our team in Colchester for Lodger Insurance.
Yes, you can add cover for home emergencies to your property insurance policy.
Please talk to your Towergate adviser for details.
We specialise in providing cover where other insurance providers may not. If you've had previous claims, we will still consider your case whether or not you've been rejected by other insurers. This is also handled by our Colchester team and details can be found on our contact page. In all cases, the more information you are able to provide regarding your previous claims, the better.
Homes which are at risk of flood are often a little trickier to insure. We have policies which will cater for flood in some of the harder to cover areas and can often refer cases to our insurers to try and find you a policy. You can read more on insurance, provided by our team in Colchester, for flood risk areas here.
Running a business from your home often means you have slightly different need to a standard home. See our home business insurance webpage for more details.
Property owners liability is related to one’s legal responsibility to properly maintain property they own so it is not a danger to others. If a form of negligence connected to the property causes a third party to be injured or their property to be damaged, they may seek compensation from the property owner. Subsequently, it’s important to have insurance in place to cover this, most home insurance policies including our own, include this as standard.
If you would prefer to spread the cost of your RIB insurance policy, you have the option of setting up a Direct Debit to pay your premium bimonthly instalments through our preferred provider, Premium Credit Limited (PCL).
To find out more about PCL and direct debit payments, select Direct Debit.
To understand more about how PCL work together with Towergate, please read our Regulatory Information.
We have provided a summary of the key features of the policy, above. For details of the terms and conditions applicable, please refer to the insurance product information document and policy wording, which are available during the quotation process.
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