Landlord Insurance

Know your property is covered against a range of devastating events, including extreme weather, malicious tenant damage and loss of rent.

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Overview

What is Landlord Insurance?

Landlord Insurance covers an investment property, its contents, or both, if an insured event causes loss or damage. Insured events include weather events like storm or fire, as well as things like malicious damage by tenants and loss of rent due to tenants defaulting.

What’s covered

  • Loss and damage caused by events like flood, storm and fire.
  • Theft, vandalism and malicious damage by tenants or guests.
  • Accidental glass breakage, including glass in windows, doors and skylights, as well as fixtures like mirrors (when you have Property cover).
  • Up to $20 million legal liability for injury or property damage to third parties.
  • New for old replacement.

Examples of what’s not covered

  • Loss of, or damage to, contents that belong to tenants.
  • General wear and tear.
  • Mould or mildew, unless it was directly caused by an insured event and there’s proof it wasn’t there before.

This is not an exhaustive list. Limits, conditions and exclusions apply. For more detail, please refer to the PDS.

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Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)

Landlord Property Insurance

Safety Net Protection

This provides a buffer if the cost of repairing or rebuilding exceeds the amount you insured your property for, for example due to an unexpected building price surge, up to a further 25% of the property sum insured.

For example:

  • If your home sum insured is $400,000, we’ll provide up to a further $100,000 towards the repair or rebuilding of your home, or $500,000 in total where a claim for loss or damage to the property is covered.

Loss of rent - property

If the property can't be lived in after an insured event, we'll pay the weekly rental amount for the time it should take to repair or rebuild the property so it can be lived in again. For up to 52 weeks and up to 10% of your property sum insured (the amount you insured your property for).

Tenant default

This covers loss of rent if your tenant leaves the property without notice or stops paying the rent while in the property. It provides cover up to $5,000 for up to 14 weeks, if you have a written rental agreement on a fixed term basis, or 2 weeks if you have a written rental agreement on a periodic basis.

Covers the building and permanent fixtures and fittings.

Comes with Safety Net Property Protection and cover for loss of rent. Also includes cover for tenant default, up to $5,000.

Landlord Contents Insurance

Loss of rent - property

If the property can't be lived in after an insured event, we'll pay the weekly rental amount for the time it should take to repair or rebuild the property so it can be lived in again. For up to 52 weeks and up to 10% of your property sum insured (the amount you insured your property for).

Tenant default

This covers loss of rent if your tenant leaves the property without notice or stops paying the rent while in the property. It provides cover up to $5,000 for up to 14 weeks, if you have a written rental agreement on a fixed term basis, or 2 weeks if you have a written rental agreement on a periodic basis.

Unit fittings

If contents are insured in a unit we cover the fittings that aren’t legally part of the building according to the relevant state or territory law such as lino, floating wooden floors, air conditioners for the sole use of your tenants and wall paint and paper in New South Wales.

Covers the property's unfixed household goods and furnishings that are owned by the landlord, including carpets and blinds.

Is your property a unit?Contents Insurance also covers loss of rent, tenant default, contents on common property (up to $1,000), and certain unit fittings.

Landlord Property & Contents Insurance

Includes all the features and benefits of Landlord Property Insurance and Landlord Contents Insurance in one bundle.

Combine them and receive a discount of up to 15%.

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Optional cover

Feel better protected with our range of optional covers which can be added at any time.

Motor burnout

Covers electric motors in household equipment and appliances equal to or less than 10 years old when they burnout or fuse. This includes things like the motor in your fridge, air conditioning unit or swimming pool pump (depending on whether you have property or contents cover, or both).

Accidental damage at the property

This covers losing, breaking or damaging something by accident at your property, for example by dropping, knocking over or spilling something without intent.

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*If you’re eligible for more than one discount, we apply them in a pre-set order to the discounted premium, before government taxes and charges.
^Discount not applicable to GIO Roadside Assist, GIO Home Assist, Excess-free Glass or Domestic Workers Compensation optional covers.

Looking for more detail? Information provided is general advice only and doesn't take into account your particular objectives, financial situation or needs, so you should consider whether it is appropriate for you before acting on it. Conditions, exclusions and limits apply. Read the Product Disclosure Statement before making a decision about this insurance. The Target Market Determination is also available.

Safety Net Protection

This provides a buffer if the cost of repairing or rebuilding exceeds the amount you insured your property for, for example due to an unexpected building price surge, up to a further 25% of the property sum insured.

For example:

  • If your home sum insured is $400,000, we’ll provide up to a further $100,000 towards the repair or rebuilding of your home, or $500,000 in total where a claim for loss or damage to the property is covered.

Loss of rent - property

If the property can't be lived in after an insured event, we'll pay the weekly rental amount for the time it should take to repair or rebuild the property so it can be lived in again. For up to 52 weeks and up to 10% of your property sum insured (the amount you insured your property for).

Tenant default

This covers loss of rent if your tenant leaves the property without notice or stops paying the rent while in the property. It provides cover up to $5,000 for up to 14 weeks, if you have a written rental agreement on a fixed term basis, or 2 weeks if you have a written rental agreement on a periodic basis.

Unit fittings

If contents are insured in a unit we cover the fittings that aren’t legally part of the building according to the relevant state or territory law such as lino, floating wooden floors, air conditioners for the sole use of your tenants and wall paint and paper in New South Wales.

Accidental damage at the property

This covers losing, breaking or damaging something by accident at your property, for example by dropping, knocking over or spilling something without intent.

Motor burnout

Covers electric motors in household equipment and appliances equal to or less than 10 years old when they burnout or fuse. This includes things like the motor in your fridge, air conditioning unit or swimming pool pump (depending on whether you have property or contents cover, or both).

10% multi-policy discount*^

You may be eligible for a 10% multi-policy discount if you hold three or more eligible policies with us. These include Home Building, Contents, Landlord, Car, Motorcycle, Caravan or Boat Insurance. A GIO NSW CTP Insurance policy or GIO ACT MAI Insurance policy will count as an eligible policy, but the premium for these policies cannot be discounted. Taxes and charges are not discounted. View T&Cs

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You’re in control of how much you pay or save when you buy or renew your insurance premium. With a range of excess options to choose from, the more you increase your excess the lower your premium will be.

Up to 15% Home and Contents combined discount^

Save up to 15% on your policy when you combine your home insurance and your contents insurance into one policy with us. Includes Landlord and Strata policies.