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Landlord Insurance
Protecting your investment and income is easy with our Landlord insurance. Your rental property is covered for everything from accidental damage to loss of rent. And if you have more than one policy with us, you’ll also receive a great discount.
Landlord Insurance Policy Benefits
Cover for retaining walls
We cover retaining walls up to $50,000.
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This is only a summary of key benefits. For full details, exclusions and limitations please read your policy document.
Application for cover is subject to underwriting acceptance. Limits, excesses, terms, conditions and exclusions apply to the insurance cover referred to. For full policy and benefit terms and conditions please go to aainsurance.co.nz/terms.
Latest Policy Document
Want to know more about our Landlord insurance? Read the full policy document online.
Frequently asked questions
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There are several ways to calculate the cost of rebuilding your home, including:
- Using an online calculator such as the Cordell Sum Sure Calculator*. The Cordell Online Calculator provides estimated typical building replacement costs for standard residential homes.
- Obtaining a valuation completed by a builder, architect, quantity surveyor or other building expert.
There are many details that need to be taken into account when assessing the rebuild cost of your home, and because no one knows your home better than you do it’s up to you to determine the rebuild value of your home and provide your Sum Insured. Each home is unique; made from a variety of different materials, to different qualities and sizes and it is important that the sum insured reflects this.
For a full description of what’s included as part of your home, please read the ‘Your home includes’ section of your AA Insurance Home Insurance policy document.
More FAQs around our Sum Insured Home Insurance policies can be found here — Sum Insured FAQs.
Replacement Cover will be applied to your policy automatically, when you purchase a new policy after 30 August 2016, or when your policy next renews after 26 September 2016.
In an event other than a natural disaster, we’ll use Replacement Cover to settle your claim, as long as you have taken 'reasonable steps' to give us an accurate size for your home and you have calculated an accurate Sum Insured.
Using a LIM report or some other council authorised document to calculate the accurate size of your home is considered reasonable steps. Guessing the size of the home or using a measuring tape to try and estimate it, are not considered reasonable steps.
Reasonable steps includes using tools we have provided such as the Cordell Sum Sure Calculator or getting a qualified professional to calculate an accurate Sum Insured. Taking a guess or relying on your property’s CV/market value are not reasonable steps.
Yes, your home is covered by natural disaster top-up cover if your claim is first accepted by the Earthquake Commission (EQC). Your Home Insurance premium includes an amount for natural disaster insurance, which is provided by the Earthquake Commission and is called EQCover.
If the unexpected happens and your home is damaged by a natural event, we’ll top up the EQCover, to your Sum Insured limit, to ensure you can get your life back to normal as quickly as possible.
Time will tell – understanding gradual damage
We’re often asked why some things are covered by insurance while others aren’t, like the damage caused from a leaky tap. So we thought we’d explain it here with a few examples.
Five landlord tips for rentals
There are more than 550,000* rental properties scattered throughout New Zealand, so it makes sense that as the market grows landlords better understand their rights and responsibilities. With this in mind, AA Insurance has put together a few tips to help make the property investment journey a smoother one.
Why choose AA Insurance?
NZ's most trusted insurer
Thanks for voting us New Zealand's Most Trusted General Insurance provider for eight years running. Earning your trust is one thing. But keeping it is everything.
We put you first
We put our customers' needs first and pride ourselves on working with them to eliminate stress and uncertainty. Just one reason why we have NZ's most satisfied customers.
Easy, stress-free claims
One of our Customer Managers will guide you through the entire process. They'll keep you fully informed, making sure things stay on track and hassle-free.
