When you buy or renew, you have the flexibility to pay annually or monthly at no extra cost.
Why choose Allianz Building Insurance?
Pay monthly at no extra cost3
Instant Certificate of Currency
Your proof of insurance – Certificate of Currency (COC) – will be emailed instantly after you purchase your policy.
You can make a claim online or call 13 10 13 for claims service 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Award-winning insurance
From Insurer of the Year to Excellence in Claims, we’re proud to have won numerous industry awards over the years.
Has your property or its contents been damaged? Making a claim with us is quick and simple. Find out what’s involved and what you’ll need to make a claim.
What our Building Insurance covers
Find out what is and isn’t covered under our Building Insurance, as well as some optional covers you can buy.
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What’s covered
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What’s not covered
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Optional cover
What's covered
We’ll cover your building for loss or damage caused by 11 insured events, including fire,4 storms,4 and theft. This is a limited summary only of some of the benefits. For further details, see the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS).
What's not covered
These are some of the things that our Building Insurance won’t cover:
- Wear and tear, including gradual deterioration or lack of maintenance.
- Existing building defects, damage or poor workmanship.
- Alterations, additions, demolition, repairs or decorations to your building worth more than $75,000 – unless agreed with us in writing.
- Pets or domestic animals, or birds, insects, or vermin.
- Storm surge, sea level rises, and king or high tides.
- Flooding – unless you’ve added optional Flood cover.
- Soil movement including erosion, landslide, mudslide, or subsidence, unless it’s directly caused by and occurs within 72 hours of an explosion, earthquake, tsunami, storm or flood (where your policy schedule shows you have optional cover for flood).
- Holiday letting or renting any of your buildings to tenants for money, such as a granny flat.
Optional cover
You can consider adding any of these optional covers to your policy at an additional cost.
This is a summary only of some of the features and benefits available on Allianz Home Insurance, as well as some of the exclusions. Before deciding on a policy, carefully consider the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Supplementary PDS (where applicable) which set out the standard terms, conditions, limits and exclusions.
Save up to 10% when you buy both Building and Contents cover and combine them on the one policy2,7
Conveniently combines Building and Contents cover on the one Home Insurance policy. Covers the cost of loss or damage to both your home building and home contents.
Events our Home Building Insurance covers
Our Home Building Insurance covers the cost of rebuilding or replacing your home building if you’ve experienced loss or damage caused by the following insured events^.
- Fire or smoke (including bushfires4 and grassfires4)
- Theft or burglary
- Storm and cyclone4, rainwater or run off (not including flood which, subject to eligibility, may be available under the optional Flood cover4)
- Lightning
- Water or other liquid damage
- Impact damage
- Earthquake or tsunami
- Accidental breakage of glass or ceramic items
- Vandalism or malicious damage
- Explosion
- Riots or civil commotion
^For a full list of events covered by Allianz Home Insurance, see the relevant PDS.
Home Insurance calculators
When you take out Home Building Insurance, it’s important the amount you’re insured for accurately reflects the cost to rebuild your home. This is because you might have to pay the difference out of your own pocket if you’re insured for less than the replacement value of your home.
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Frequently asked questions
Our Home Building Insurance is designed to help cover the cost of loss or damage to the insured physical structures that make up your home building. This includes everything from the house itself, to your garage, fences, and paved driveways, as well as fixtures like hot water systems, air conditioners and more.
Our Building Insurance covers fire4, storm, lightning, theft, and more. Flood cover4 may be available as an optional cover. In addition, it provides legal liability cover, which can cover you if you’re found liable to pay compensation to someone because you’ve accidently injured them or damaged their property during the period of insurance.
The amount you choose to insure your buildings for is called the 'building sum insured'.
The cost of your insurance is called a ‘premium’. Your premium will depend on a number of factors, and can change each year when you renew your policy. Your premium for each period of insurance will be shown on your policy schedule.
There are a number of factors that determine how your Allianz Home Insurance premium is calculated, including:
- Your risk profile. We work this out using a number of factors, such as:
- Where you live
- The type of property you’re insuring
- The amount and type of cover you require
- Any other people also insured under the policy
- The relevant claims history of the people being insured
- The likelihood of a claim being made on your policy
- Any discounts that may apply
- Any compulsory government charges such as Stamp Duty and GST
- Emergency Services Levies if they apply to the State or Territory where your home is located
- Any other charges we tell you of
- The excess you choose8
To find out the cost of insuring your home building through us, get a quick Home Insurance quote in minutes.
Your home building can be covered for flood-related damage if you take out optional Flood cover, subject to eligibility. Your building, under Flood cover, will be covered for:
Loss or damage caused by:
- Flood, flood water, combined with run-off and rainwater
As well as loss or damage caused by or arising from the following, if it’s caused directly by and occurs within 72 hours of a flood:
- Soil movement, including erosion
- Landslide
- Mudslide
- Subsidence
To find out if you’re eligible for Flood cover, get your quote online or call us on 13 1000.
If you currently hold a policy and would like to find out whether your Building insurance policy currently has Flood cover, you can log onto My Allianz to check your policy documentation or call us on 13 1000.
Note: 72-hour exclusion period may apply. We may not provide cover (where the type of cover you have under the policy provides it) for any loss of or damage to your property caused by cyclone, flood, grassfires and bushfires, during the first 72 hours after you first take out or increase the cover under the policy. For the standard terms, conditions and exclusions about our Home Insurance, refer to the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS).
With Allianz, you may be able to save on your home insurance premium by increasing your basic excess. Our policies come with flexible excess levels, giving you the option to increase your basic excess, within a given range, which could reduce your premium.8
You should tell us as soon as reasonably possible if during the period of insurance your building is in the course of construction or there are any alterations, additions, demolition, repairs to, or decorations of the building costing more than $75,000. If you don’t, we may refuse or reduce a claim under the policy to the extent we’re prejudiced by the delay or the non-disclosure.
You can also contact us if you want to vary your policy during the period of insurance for any other reason, for example to increase your sums insured or to take our additional cover options that may be available.
When we receive this information, we may:
- Propose changes to the terms and conditions of your policy
- Propose to charge you a higher premium
- Cancel your policy if there’s a change and we can’t reach an agreement with you on altered terms and conditions or premium, or we’re no longer prepared to insure you because there has been a material change to the risk
- Decide not to offer to renew your policy
Note: It’s also important that you increase your home building sum insured to take into account any extensions or renovations to make sure you’re adequately covered in the event of a home insurance claim.
Home Insurance covers you against financial losses associated with the damage or loss of the property you own. Home insurance isn’t a legal requirement, but if you hold a mortgage over your property, most banks and mortgage lenders require you to take out Home Buildings insurance as security to safeguard themselves against financial risk due to unexpected damage or loss to your property.
Lenders may require you to list them as an interested party when purchasing insurance and may also request proof of insurance (Certificate of Currency) before the loan is finalised or for each year your mortgage is held with them.
To request a Certificate of Currency for your existing Allianz Home Insurance policy, call us on 13 1000 or log onto My Allianz.
If you take out Building Insurance here’s how your home buildings cover can work if the unexpected occurs:
- Your house burns down and you lose all your building structures. With adequate sums insured under Buildings cover, you could rebuild your home back to a similar standard it used to be.
- A fire damages your kitchen. You could repair or rebuild built-in damaged parts of your kitchen, such as benchtops and cabinets, with Buildings cover.
- A thief smashes your window, breaks the locks, but gets away without stealing any of your belongings. You can fix the window and replace your locks through your Buildings insurance.
You must tell us as soon as reasonably possible if, during the period of insurance:
- You start using any part of your home buildings for business, trade or professional purposes – except for a home office.
- You remove or stop using any security devices that were specifically required by us.
- You carry out any alterations, additions, demolition, repairs to, or decorations of your buildings costing more than $75,000.
- You start renting out your home to tenants.
- Your home building hasn’t been lived in, or won’t be lived in, for more than 60 consecutive days.
If you don’t provide this information as soon as reasonably possible, we may refuse or reduce a claim.
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To see some of the events covered and not covered by our Home Insurance, refer to our Key Fact Sheets (KFS).
*Conditions apply
- Up to 30% No Claim Bonus – Home
When you take out a new policy, we calculate your No Claim Bonus based on your home insurance claims history. To qualify for the maximum No Claim Bonus of 30%, Home Insurance customers must have had no Building or Contents insurance claims in the preceding five years. However, customers who have had claims may still qualify for a reduced No Claim Bonus.
After each claim-free year, the No Claim Bonus applied to your renewal premium will be increased by 10%, to a maximum of 30%. However, for every claim you make in a year, the No Claim Bonus applied to your renewal premium will be reduced by 10% to a minimum of 0%.
The No Claim Bonus is applied to some optional covers if available and selected; Motor Burnout and Accidental Damage, but not Flood, Domestic Workers Compensation or Portable Contents cover.
- Minimum premiums may apply
Any discounts may be subject to rounding and only apply to the extent that any minimum premium isn't reached. If you’re eligible for more than one discount, Allianz applies them in a predetermined order. This means the effect of applying any subsequent discount will be reduced. For example, the aggregate effect of applying two discounts consecutively means that you won't see the full benefit of both these discounts.
Discounts don't apply to taxes or government charges.
- Pay by instalments
Premiums payable by instalments may be subject to minor adjustments (upwards or downwards) due to rounding, and financial institution transaction fees may apply.
- 72-hour exclusion period may apply
We may not provide cover for any loss of or damage to your property caused by cyclone, flood, grassfires, and bushfires, during the first 72 hours after you first purchase a policy or increase your cover under an existing policy. For full details of conditions and exclusions please refer to the relevant PDS.
- Alternative accommodation
This is an extra benefit we pay in addition to your building sum insured. We don’t pay additional alternative accommodation costs under the buildings section, if we’ve paid it under the contents section. No excess applies to this benefit.
- Making your home building environmentally friendly
This is an extra benefit we pay in addition to your buildings sum insured. No excess applies to this benefit.
- Combined discounts
A discount of up to 10% is applied to your premium when you combine Buildings and Contents on one Home Insurance policy, including for the following optional covers if selected: Motor Burnout and Accidental Damage cover. The combined discount doesn't apply to Landlord policies, Flood, Portable Contents, or Domestic Workers Compensation optional covers (if available and selected).
- Option to change your excess
Not available with respect to any additional compulsory excess, imposed excess applied to the policy or to the Portable Contents excess. Any reduction in premium will not be applied to government taxes and charges, or to optional covers (if available and selected): Domestic Workers’ Compensation, Flood or Portable Contents. Minimum premiums apply.
Allianz acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work across Australia. We pay our respect to First Nations Elders past and present.
Any advice here does not take into account your individual objectives, financial situation or needs. Terms, conditions, limits, and exclusions apply. Before making a decision about this insurance, consider the relevant Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)/Policy Wording and Supplementary PDS (if applicable). Where applicable, the PDS/Policy Wording, Supplementary PDS and Target Market Determination (TMD) for this insurance are available on this website. We do not provide any form of advice if you call us to enquire about or purchase a product.
Allianz Australia Insurance Limited ABN 15 000 122 850 AFS Licence No. 234708 is the insurer of any general insurance products offered, and Allianz Australia Life Insurance Limited ABN 27 076 033 782 AFS Licence No. 296559 is the insurer of any life insurance products offered. Each entity is responsible for any statements and representations made about its products, on this website.