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Climate risk is rising. It calls for a rethinking of home insurance coverage

Housing Wire

It’s resulting in calls to reimagine the costs of homeowners insurance (Image generated by AI in Midjourney) As the planet warms and extreme weather intensifies, the rising cost of homeowners insurance is stopping real estate deals in their tracks. Some insurers say catastrophe risk is part of the business, part of the job.

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How do you put a price on the wildfire damage in LA?

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According to CoreLogic , the total damage cost estimate for the Los Angeles wildfires as it relates to insured properties is currently at $30 billion. Assuming all of those burnt, thats about a $30 billion insured loss event. That’s assuming every property within the perimeter is burnt to 100%, he explained.

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DataDigest: What happens when insurance carriers abandon America’s biggest housing markets

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We immediately reach out to an insurance agent to see the insurability of the house because it is becoming more and more of a problem,” Armstrong, a Compass agent in San Diego, told HousingWire’s Brooklee Han in a feature we published Tuesday. Insurance policies for homeowners are skyrocketing. The result?

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Insurance carrier exodus rattles California and Florida housing markets

Housing Wire

In late June, Susan Gregory received an estimate for a new homeowner’s insurance policy on her 120-year-old St. Augustine, Florida property, after her previous insurer, United Property and Casualty, went insolvent earlier in the year. This is one of the easiest parts of Florida to insure and costs have gone up over 40%.”

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Housing costs continue to burden American families: NAHB

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This calculation includes median home prices , assuming a 10% down payment, as well as taxes, homeowners insurance and private mortgage insurance. The NAHB/Wells Fargo CHI, a quarterly analysis of housing costs at both the national and metropolitan levels, measures the share of income needed to make a typical mortgage payment.

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Opinion: From Lehman to a digital housing platform

Housing Wire

The great financial crisis (GFC) revealed a defective supply chain, metrics unable to assess local risk and markets incapable of answering Ben Bernanke ’s defining question – “what’s this stuff worth?” Today is the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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Opinion: A merger to rewire the housing ecosystem

Housing Wire

Portals: These destinations become marketplaces that integrate the supply chain and allow consumers and their advisors to choose and close within minutes – not months. Audience assets will be valued based on transaction volumes and bundles of listings, lending, loan sales and servicing and trading content.