Pic: Directors Will Molland (left) and Danny Lillington (right) with FSQS Certificate

Rebuild Cost Assessment Ltd is now FSQS accredited, providing compliance assurance to our customers and their clients. 

FSQS (Financial Services Qualification System) is a community of financial institutions including banks, building societies, insurance companies and investment services who have all collaborated to agree a single standard for...

If there’s one thing there has been no shortage of this year for insurers and intermediaries alike, it has been some difficult client conversations!

Brokers and underwriters have told us that the hardening market coupled with major issues that have emerged around Covid-19 have meant, well a bit of explaining to do at times. 

Inaccurate sums insured can also be a tricky one. Brokers already know there is a careful line to walk he...

We’re delighted to announce that two of our next generation of property surveyors have succeeded in achieving a significant qualification, which will help them grow within our modernising profession.

Murray Bodek, 35 (left), and Adam Barrett, 23 (right), both completed the Diploma in Quantity Surveying Technology at the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), following two years of study. Not to be outdone by the other,...

As many as 79% of homes owned by hobbits would be underinsured (if they actually existed) according to research by building valuation experts RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com.

The findings mean that in the event of a claim most hobbits would be dangerously exposed to financial ruin, especially as on average their properties would be covered for less than half of what they should be.

While the scenario is of course fictional, the data i...

Dave has a lovely house, which he insured for £542,000 in 2013. Should he be confident that index-linking has kept him protected from under or over-insurance ever since?

View our latest animation and find out why index-linking is a good thing, but with a bit of a problem.   

I imagine many of you reading this will now find yourself (like me) working from home for who knows how long?

Things have suddenly changed, quite dramatically for all of us following the Coronavirus outbreak. I’m sure for insurance brokers this must be a truly daunting time, especially as I know how getting out and about, meeting clients and maintaining close relationships are so important to you. 

“Clients don’t really like dig...

Nigel Feast FCII, is one of Britain’s most highly respected property insurance professionals. He has been named as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential people in the residential leasehold sector and is Customer Relations Director at Deacon, a RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com Platinum broker.

For our latest short video, Nigel tells us why he believes brokers should work closely with clients to ensure building declared values (BDVs)...

A UK based insurance broker is facing a legal claim for damages of “at least £3.5 million” after a fire revealed one of its commercial clients had been significantly underinsured, according to reports.

Legal news source Law360 said a waste management company based in the South West of England had filed a claim in the High Court against a Lloyd’s of London broker after “its main processing facility, including its factory, machin...

RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com has released up-to-date high-level data around inaccurate building sums insured in the UK.

The figures, which come from an overall sample of 8,863 domestic and commercial properties over the past 12 months, have been summarised in an infographic below, which you can also download here. 

Director Will Molland BSc MCIOB AssocRICS, who is also one of RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com’s Quality Control Assessors co...

Brokers helping their clients get their building sums insured right doesn’t have to be time-consuming or difficult. 

Place an order with us online, anywhere, anytime. Find out how with our quick explainer video.

If you don’t already have an online account set-up with us, click here.