Home Insurance Price Comparison Ireland
If your home insurance policy is up for renewal - you should always do a comparison with quotes from other insurers before you renew with your current insurer – you could save yourself some money.
We did an online comparison of house insurance prices for a bungalow in County Mayo with rebuilding costs of €250k and contents cover of €40k. Cover for accidental damage is included, house has no burglar alarm , 2 smoke alarms and the policy has a €125 excess. The quotes used in the comparison were obtained online from insurance providers and brokers websites on August 17th 2009
123.ie €345.62 was the lowest quote.
Quotedevil.ie €354.25
Getcover.com €374.62
Allianz Direct €376.69
Pibasure €382.95
Insure.ie €385 – but with 250 excess
Zurich €405.40
Ulster Bank – the renewal quote €416.62
FBD Insurance €409.97
Chill.ie quoted €438 for a matching policy
QuoteMe €472 was the cheapest they could find- and ithad a 250 excess
Hibernian Aviva €490.57 was the most expensive quote.
Overall – the difference between the most expensive and the cheapest quote was €145 Euro not an insignificant amount for an hours effort.
We did try some other insurance web sites to compare but there were some problems.
One Direct – their online quote wouldn’t work – just got an error message.
Quinn Direct – the site froze our computer (Using Firefox)
Bestquote.ie – came up with an error message “failed to contact mail server”
Simply Mortgages – no online home quote was possible
Axa – no online quote possible
Tesco Ireland don’t do House Insurance.