Covers you for the professional fees incurred if your business’s financial or tax affairs are audited by an authorised authority.
Building Insurance
What is Building Insurance?
Building Insurance can help cover the loss or damage to your insured building, if it’s caused by insured events like storms, burglaries and fire. It doesn't cover contents inside your home, but it can cover permanently attached fixtures, like, garages and solar panels. Get a building insurance quote today!
Building Insurance
what's included?
what's optional?
What am I covered for?
What's covered by Building Insurance?
There are two categories of coverage type with your Building Insurance quote — your standard coverage, included by default, and Optional Covers. Brush up on both and consider what type of coverage you may need.
Your Coverage
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Cover for damage to the building
Also includes outbuildings like garages and sheds, and other permanent fixtures like fences, decks and solar panels.
Cover for third party liability
Up to $20 million legal liability cover can help you take care of legal and other costs if a visitor suffers injury, death or property damage at your home.
Temporary accommodation
If your home is damaged and your policy offers cover for a repair or rebuild, we’ll cover accommodation costs for as long as that takes (up to 52 weeks). Our maximum payout for any one incident is 10% of the building sum insured — unless you have optional Complete Replacement Cover, in which case we’ll pay reasonable & necessary costs.
Motor burnout cover
If the motor in one of your fixed appliances burns out or fuses and that motor is less than 7 years old, we'll help you take care of repair or replacement.
Optional Covers
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Accidental Damage at Home
If you accidentally drop, knock, spill or otherwise damage something at home, this optional cover can help. It can apply to your house itself, your contents, or both, depending on your policy.
Excess-Free Glass
There’s not much more annoying than fixing broken glass. Whether it’s a shower screen, window, fixed mirror or skylight, it can be expensive and time consuming to sort out. Luckily, with this optional cover, AAMI can help.
AAMI Home Assist
AAMI Home Assist can offer you help from a plumber, electrician, locksmith or carpenter in the event of a home emergency. So if you’ve had AAMI Home Assist on your policy for 24 hours or more and you come home to something unexpected like a burst pipe or blown fuse, we can help get it sorted ASAP.
Complete Replacement Cover
This Optional Cover gives you peace of mind that if your building is damaged or destroyed by an insured event, we'll repair or rebuild your house as it was, or pay you the amount of the assessed quote to repair or rebuild it.
Insured Events
These are the events that you can make a claim for, if they cause loss or damage to your home or contents (or both, of course, if you have a combined policy). There are limits, conditions and exclusions which apply, so check out the policy documents to make sure you’re up to speed.
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Flood
Including water overflowing from things like lakes, rivers, or dams.
Storm
That's rain, wind, thunder, that sort of thing. FYI, storm damage is one of our most common claims, so this is a biggie.
Storm surge
That's a rush of water pushed from the sea onto the land caused by very strong winds. It doesn't include actions or movements of the sea. The loss or damage caused by storm surge must happen at the same time as other insured damage caused by storm.
Lightning
Including power surges caused by lightning, will be covered providing a qualified repairer confirms lightning as the cause of loss or damage.
Fire
Loss or damage caused by fire (includes bushfire) and heat, ash, soot and smoke that is the direct result of a fire within 100 metres of the insured address.
Earthquake & Tsunami
These may not be likely, depending on where you live, but you'll be covered just in case.
Theft or burglary
This also includes attempted theft, if nothing is stolen but the attempt causes damage that needs repairing.
Escape of liquid
This refers to liquid leaking, overflowing or bursting from things like appliances, fixed pipes, drains, and waterbeds
Impact
This refers to damage caused by impact from falling tree branches, power poles or TV antennas.
Damage by an animal
Not your pets, though. This refers to damage caused by animals (not insects, vermin or rodents) who aren’t supposed to be there.
Explosion
We cover the loss or damage caused by an explosion but we don’t cover the cost of replacing or repairing the tank or container that exploded.
Riot, civil commotion or public disturbance
An example would be damage caused by a violent crowd moving down your street.
Malicious acts and vandalism
This includes things like vandals damaging your letterbox or tagging the building with graffiti.
Insured Events listed above apply to AAMI Home Insurance products, excluding Fire & Theft Contents Insurance which is limited to loss or damage by Fire, Theft or Burglary. We don't insure you for bushfire, storm, storm surge, flood or tsunami for the first 72 hours of your policy. Very limited exceptions apply. Read the PDS for more detail.
Assessing your property
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Home Building Calculator
Estimate the cost to rebuild
This calculator can help you work out the estimated rebuild cost of your home to help you choose your sum insured.
On a shared block?
Strata Insurance
If you’re on a shared block, or your home shares walls with another, you may need Strata Insurance.
Take control with My Account
Jump online any time to make a claim, update your policy, check your docs and more.
AAMI Home Building Insurance
Frequently asked questions
We can’t presume to tell you what you need, but what we can do is let you know more about the benefits of our insurance products. Building Insurance — as the name suggests — will cover any damage caused to the physical structure that makes up your home, including garages and sheds, in an insured event such as burglary, theft or weather events.
If you require coverage for the things inside your home, adding Contents Insurance to your policy or simply taking out our combined Home and Contents Insurance might be worth considering.
Carpets are considered part of your contents and therefore not covered by AAMI’s Building Insurance. To make sure your carpets are covered in an insured event, you’ll need to take out Home and Contents Insurance (Building and Contents Insurance combined) or Contents Insurance.
With AAMI’s home insurance policies, you can choose to cover your home for a ‘sum insured’ amount (which is an amount based on how much it would cost to rebuild your home) or to add on Complete Replacement Cover as an optional cover. You can choose to add Complete Replacement Cover to your policy when you take it out or renew it.
Opting for Complete Replacement Cover means you don’t have to set a sum insured limit, so if your house is damaged or destroyed by an insured we will offer to repair or rebuild your house as it was, or pay you the amount of the assessed quote to repair or rebuild it. It’s important to note that Complete Replacement Cover includes the insured building only and not your contents. To ensure your belongings are covered, make sure you review your contents policy regularly and update it with any new purchases that aren’t automatically covered to their replacement value. For details on specified and unspecified limits, consult your PDS.
Your building is covered for damage by insured events including fire, storm, impact and malicious damage. You can also cover the building for accidental loss or damage by taking out our Optional Accidental Damage cover.
You can also cover accidental damage to your portable items by taking out our optional portable valuables cover.
Tax Probe
Back in Business
Covers you for a reduction in your business revenue as a result of damage to your property by an insured event.
Theft
Covers you for the loss of your business contents and stock from theft, attempted theft, armed hold up or an actual/threatened assault.
Property Damage
Covers you for physical loss or damage to your property (ie. your business contents, stock or specified items at the premises) from insured events such as fire, lightning and explosion.
Public and Products Liability
Covers you for the cost of compensation if your business is responsible for personal injury or property damage.
Home & Contents including Legal Liability
Home & Contents covers a range of insured events, such as fire, theft or attempted theft, storms, flood and lightning.
Legal liability covers your liability to pay compensation for death or injury to other people, or loss of or damage to their property, if it results from an incident that’s connected with you owning or living in the home at the insured address. Legal liability on contents covers your liability to pay compensation for an incident which causes death or bodily injury to other people, if it occurs anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.
Damage to other people and their property
Up to $20 million cover for your legal liability for an incident at your rental property connected to you owning the property.
Loss of rent
Up to 10% of the building sum insured and the longest period that can be claimed for is 52 weeks, for unit owners if their unit is damaged and their tenant can't live in it as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Loss of rent
The longest period we will pay for one incident is 52 weeks and the most we will pay in total is up to $25,000 if your property cannot be lived in as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Contents damage or loss
Only those contents which are owned by the landlord but kept within the property are covered.
Third party cover
You’ll have cover, for up to $20 million, for your legal liability if a third party is injured or has their property damaged in an incident at your house.
Legal liability
We cover your legal liability to pay compensation for death of or bodily injury to other people, or loss or damage to their property, resulting from an incident which happens anywhere in Australia or New Zealand during the period of insurance:
which is unrelated to your ownership of the building, unit or land at the insured address, unless you are living in a unit and/or own the unit and your legal liability is not covered under a building policy which covers that unit; or
if it results from fixtures and fittings attached to the insured address and that you are legally responsible for under a rental agreement.
We also cover you for associated legal costs to defend a claim against you that is covered. We need to first agree to pay the legal costs before they are covered.
Legal liability
We cover your legal liability to pay compensation for death or bodily injury to other people, or loss or damage to their property, resulting from an incident which happens during the period of cover:
in connection with you owning or living in the building; and
at the insured address.
We will also pay the associated legal costs which we have agreed in writing to pay. The most we will pay for all claims from any one incident under building legal liability cover is $20 million, including all associated legal costs.
Lifetime guarantee on building repairs
When we repair or rebuild the building, we guarantee the quality of workmanship of that work for the lifetime of the building if we:
- authorise;
- arrange; and
- pay the builder or repairer directly for this work.
For full details, see the PDS.
Portable valuables
Extra cover for mobile phones, laptops, bicycles, handbags and a range of other items that you're likely to take outside your home.
Specified contents at home
If you've got a few especially valuable items, like jewellery or artworks, you can specify them on your policy to ensure they're covered up to their full value.
Temporary Accommodation
Temporary accommodation for unit owners if their unit is damaged and can’t be lived in, up to 10% of the building sum insured and the longest period that can be claimed for is 52 weeks, as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Temporary Accommodation
Temporary accommodation for unit owners if their unit is damaged and can’t be lived in, up to 10% of the building sum insured and the longest period that can be claimed for is 52 weeks, as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Temporary Accommodation
If your home is damaged and your policy offers cover for a repair or rebuild, we’ll cover accommodation costs for as long as that takes (up to 52 weeks). Our maximum payout for any one incident is 10% of the building sum insured — unless you have optional Complete Replacement Cover, in which case we’ll pay reasonable & necessary costs.
Temporary Accommodation
If your home is damaged and your policy offers cover for a repair or rebuild, we’ll cover accommodation costs for as long as that takes (up to 52 weeks). Our maximum payout for any one incident is 10% of the building sum insured — unless you have optional Complete Replacement Cover, in which case we’ll pay reasonable & necessary costs.
Eligible Policies
Eligible policies include AAMI Motor (excluding SA and ACT CTP) and Home Insurance policies purchased between 12th July 2019 and 9th September 2019.
Tenant Protection
Extra cover to protect you against the costs of unpaid rent, theft or malicious damage by your tenant and their guests.
Cover for spoiled food and medication
If an insured event causes food or medicine to spoil—for example, if a storm knocks out power to your fridge - we'll cover the cost, up to $400.
Cover for motor burnout
If the motor in one of your fixed appliances burns out or fuses and that motor is less than 7 years old, we'll help you take care of repair or replacement.
Home Building Calculator
This calculator has some questions included that you may not find in other calculators, which will impact the estimate that is calculated.
24/7 AAMI Home Assist
Available 24 hours after adding the option to your policy.
General maintenance
AAMI Home Assist does not cover general maintenance, such as the provision or replacement of windows, doors, glass, tiles, carpets and of fittings and fixtures. Other exclusions apply - please read the Home Assist Terms & Conditions.
Preventative services
AAMI Home Assist does not cover preventative services, such as the removal of property, rubbish or debris. Read the Home Assist Terms & Conditions.
Disaster response
AAMI Home Assist is not an emergency rescue or disaster response service. Read the Home Assist Terms & Conditions to find out more.
Where an emergency situation poses a risk to your personal safety or property, or the personal safety and property of any other person, contact the appropriate emergency or rescue services.
This doesn’t cover damage caused by:
- Wear and tear
- The gradual deterioration of something with age
- Deliberate acts
- Defective workmanship
Limits and exclusions
This Optional Cover is for fixed glass only. Refer to the PDS for more information.
Contents damage or loss
Covers loss of, or damage to, the things in your home, garage and/or shed after an insured event. This can include electronics, furniture, clothing and more. You can also add Portable Valuables Cover for items you often take outside the home, such as a laptop computer.
Building damage or loss
Covers loss of, and damage to, buildings, if caused by an insured event such as fire, break-ins and weather events (like storm, flood and bushfire). Buildings covered include your home, along with garages and sheds.
Legal liability
Offers up to $20 million cover for your legal liability caused by an incident at your home address, if that incident is connected to you owning or living at that property.
Complete Replacement Cover
This Optional Cover gives you peace of mind that if your building is damaged or destroyed by an insured event, we'll repair or rebuild your house as it was, or pay you the amount of the assessed quote to repair or rebuild it.
Specified valuable items
If you've got a few especially valuable items, like jewellery or artworks, you can specify them on your policy to ensure they're covered up to their full value.
Portable valuables
Extra cover for mobile phones, laptops, bicycles, handbags and a range of other items that you're likely to take outside your home.
Loss of rent
Up to 10% of the building sum insured and the longest period that can be claimed for is 52 weeks, for unit owners if their unit is damaged and their tenant can't live in it as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Loss of rent
The longest period we will pay for one incident is 52 weeks and the most we will pay in total is up to $25,000 if your property cannot be lived in as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Contents damage or loss up to your chosen amount
Covers loss of, or damage to, the things in your home, garage and/or shed after an insured event. This can include electronics, furniture, clothing and more. You can also add Portable Valuables Cover for items you often take outside the home, such as a laptop computer.
Contents damage or loss
Up to $25,000 for damage to, or loss of, the contents of your home caused by fire or break-ins.
Temporary accommodation
Temporary accommodation for unit owners if their unit is damaged and can’t be lived in, up to 10% of the building sum insured and the longest period that can be claimed for is 52 weeks, as a result of an incident covered by the policy.
Temporary accommodation
If your home is damaged by an insured event and you can’t live there while it’s being repaired or rebuilt, we’ll cover the time it should take to repair or rebuild, up to 52 weeks for temporary accommodation. The most we will pay for any one incident is up to 10% of the building sum insured, unless your certificate of insurance shows that you have Complete Replacement Cover® option, in which case we pay the reasonable and necessary costs.
Office bearer’s liability
Covers up to $1 million for office bearers or committee members if a claim is made against them for a wrongful act.
Back in Business
Offers cover for contents shared between multiples strata properties, such as washing machines, gardening equipment and shared gym equipment that doesn't belong to a unit owner or tenant, covered up to a chosen Sum Insured.
Glass & signs
This provides cover for loss of, or damage to, glass windows, signs and showcases at your business premises.
Public Liability
Public Liability offers cover for your costs if you are found to be legally responsible for personal injury to a third party, or damage to their property.
Tenant Protection
Extra cover to protect you against the costs of unpaid rent, theft or malicious damage by your tenant and their guests.
Tax Probe
Also known as Tax Audit, this provides cover for the professional and accountant’s fees incurred by you in connection with an audit of your business’ financial or tax affairs by the ATO, or by a Commonwealth, State or Territory department, body or agency.
Available to 95% of Aussie homes
Some geographic limitations apply.
How AAMI Home Assist works
If you’ve selected AAMI Home Assist as an optional cover on your AAMI Home Insurance policy and you’ve had it for 24 hours or more:
For assistance in a home emergency - ie, a sudden and unforeseen incident at your home which requires urgent attention - call 13 22 44.
We can connect you with a plumber, electrician, locksmith or carpenter.
Home Building Calculator
This calculator has some questions included that you may not find in other calculators, which will impact the estimate that is calculated.