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...Underwriting profitability in 2022 among UK home insurers was at its worst in at least three decades, consultancy EY calculated....
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...closing costs and the mortgage insurance, they had the first year’s mortgage payments in cash....
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...The former City minister said returning to a free market for flood insurance by 2039 would depend on that extra money and action by homeowners to improve the resilience of their properties....
...left any of our existing customers without insurance cover”....
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...A recent analysis by the Centre for Public Data, a non-profit organisation, suggested that the number of residential properties in England and Wales registered to individuals based overseas jumped from under...
...He has called on the FCA, which identified concerns over insurance commission rates in residential property as early as 2014, to present its plan for reforms by this summer....
...In the US, every state apart from Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Mississippi have introduced such laws, according to The Repair Association....
...Then an insurance company decided the tree’s roots were undermining the foundations of a nearby house....
..., when more than 20,000 properties were affected....
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...Stories of rental properties snapped up days after they go on the market add to his foreboding....
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