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Home insurance news and articles

Youi’s home insurance articles that help you maintain your house as well as the valuable and loveable contents within your home.

Be prepared, not scared, and learn to look after your home in case of a flood, bushfire, or severe weather.

They say home is where the heart is, so we want to do all we can to help you protect the things dearest to you. Youi’s home insurance articles provide you with helpful home maintenance tips as well as effective ways to prepare your home for all that the Australian climate can throw at you.

A woman sitting on her laptop in the sun, researching whether she needs home insurance if she already has body corporate insurance

Do I Need Home Insurance if I Have Body Corporate Insurance?

If you live in a property managed by a body corporate, such as an apartment or a townhouse, you may be unsure how insurance works.
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Guarantor Home Loans: Buying a Home with Help from Your Parents

Rising property prices, high interest rates and saving enough for a house deposit are common challenges faced by first home buyers.
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Cheat Sheet for First Home Buyer Loans

Buying your first home is an exciting milestone in so many ways.
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Home Fire Safety – Your Room-by-Room Guide to House Fire Prevention

Take home fire safety seriously.
A man on the phone to his insurer to make a claim after a kitchen fire.

How to Claim Insurance on a Kitchen Fire

More than 17,000 house fires break out in Australia every year1 and, it turns out, the kitchen is a bit of a fire hotspot.
A man fixing a water leak under the bathroom sink.

Help! I Have a Burst Water Pipe. What Should I Do?

Burst water pipes can be a dramatic and destructive household emergency.
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