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Most buildings find out at the claim.

Check whether your building is properly insured, get the valuation right, and go to market with numbers instead of guesses.

Where is your building?

The job is the same everywhere. The rules, the words and the money are not. Pick your state or territory and we will show you the version that actually applies.

New South Wales

NSW

Strata Schemes Management Act 2015

New South Wales sets out the insurance obligation directly: an owners corporation must hold building insurance and public liability cover of at least $10 million, and it must insure for...

Read the NSW guide

Victoria

VIC

Owners Corporations Act 2006

Victorian owners corporations must hold reinstatement and replacement insurance for the building and public liability cover, and the state has a particular exposure right now: a large...

Read the VIC guide

Queensland

QLD

Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997

Queensland bodies corporate must insure the building for full replacement value and hold public liability cover, and the state has the hardest strata insurance market in the country....

Read the QLD guide

Western Australia

WA

Strata Titles Act 1985

A Western Australian strata company must insure the buildings on the scheme for their full replacement value and hold public liability cover, and the 2020 reforms tightened what the...

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South Australia

SA

Strata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996

Insurance is compulsory for South Australian strata and community corporations — building insurance for replacement value and public liability cover — and because South Australia leaves...

Read the SA guide

Tasmania

TAS

Strata Titles Act 1998

A Tasmanian body corporate must insure the building for replacement value and hold public liability cover. Because most Tasmanian schemes are small and self-managed, the practical risk is...

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Australian Capital Territory

ACT

Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011

ACT owners corporations must hold building and public liability insurance under the Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011. Canberra's advantage is that the Act's sinking fund plan obligation...

Read the ACT guide

Northern Territory

NT

Unit Titles Act 1975 and Unit Titles Schemes Act 2009

In the Northern Territory insurance is not an administrative task, it is the central financial question a body corporate faces. Cyclone exposure has made Territory strata premiums among...

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Why the renewal is worth more attention than it gets

The premium is one of the largest single lines in most buildings' budgets, and it is the one most often accepted without a question. Two questions — is the sum insured right, and what are we actually covered for — change the answer more than shopping around does.

Underinsurance is silent until it isn't
A policy short of replacement cost pays a proportion, not the shortfall. Owners discover the gap when they are already dealing with a fire.
Build costs moved and valuations often didn't
Construction costs rose steeply from 2020. A sum insured indexed by a default percentage each year has almost certainly fallen behind the real cost of rebuilding.
The excess is a budget decision, not an insurer's decision
A higher excess buys a lower premium. Whether that trade is right depends on your maintenance fund balance — which is something the committee knows and the broker does not.
The exclusions matter more than the price
Water ingress, flood, defects, and the treatment of common versus lot property. The cheapest policy is frequently cheapest because of what it leaves out.

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