This calculator has some questions included that you may not find in other calculators, which will impact the estimate that is calculated.
How much Home Insurance cover do I need?
When taking out a new Home Insurance policy, you’ll need to choose a sum insured — that is, the amount listed on your policy as the most we’ll pay to repair, replace or rebuild your home and/or contents in the event of a claim. A home building calculator and contents calculator can help you choose the right figure.
HOME BUILDING CALCULATOR
Estimate how much you’d need to rebuild your home from scratch.
Just pop in your address, and the home building calculator will retrieve info about your home — saving you time. Of course, you need to review the info and adjust it if necessary. Once you’re happy with it, the calculator will give you an estimated rebuild cost, and the option of downloading a report.
Contents Calculator
Estimate how much you’d need to replace all your stuff.
Just pop in a few details about your home and its occupants, along with any special items — like fancy jewellery or collectables — that you’d like covered, and the calculator will give you an estimate for your contents sum insured. Easy!
When do I need to set my sum insured?
- If you’re taking out a new policy, you can specify your sum insured — within a given range — as you get your quote.
- If you’re renewing your policy, you can set a new sum insured before you pay your renewal.
- If you’re partway through your policy period, you can adjust your sum insured online. Doing so will probably affect your premium.
How to choose the right Home Insurance
AAMI offers a few different Home Insurance options, making it easy to find one that suits your home.
Home & Contents
Suitable for
Home Owner Occupiers
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Building Only
Suitable for
Home Owner Occupiers
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Contents Only
Suitable for
Home Owner Occupiers Renters Duplexes Townhouses Units/flats
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Fire & Theft Only
Suitable for
Home Owner Occupiers Renters Duplexes Townhouses Units/flats
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Landlord Building & Contents
Suitable for
Landlords
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Landlord Building
Suitable for
Landlords
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Landlord Contents
Suitable for
Landlords Duplexes Townhouses Units/flats
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Strata
Suitable for
Landlords Duplexes Townhouses Units/flats
Get a quote
Call 13 22 44
What's included?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Business@Home
Suitable for
Business
What’s optional?
Policy document downloads
Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
Optional cover
Complete Replacement Cover
Accurately estimating your sum insured is important, but it’s not a guarantee that you’ll be totally covered if you need to rebuild. Spikes in material costs or unexpected events can increase building costs. Taking out Complete Replacement Cover — optional with AAMI Home Insurance — means we’ll pay what your home costs to rebuild, or pay you the amount of the assessed quote to repair or rebuild it without you having to set a sum insured.
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Frequently asked questions
Are home building and contents calculators accurate?
The more info you can enter into the calculator, and the more accurate that info is, the more accurate your estimate will be. That said, it is just that — an estimate. Building and material costs can fluctuate, and there are unique features of every home that can influence how much it will cost to rebuild.
What if the amount I insure my house for is too low?
Having a sum insured that isn’t quite enough to cover the cost of rebuilding your home means you may be out of pocket if you ever need to rebuild. You would either have to settle for building a home that doesn’t have the same features or quality as your previous home, or spend additional money of your own on top of what we pay you to cover the gap.
If you’re worried about underinsurance, you could consider Complete Replacement Cover. Taking out this optional cover means we’ll pay you what it costs to rebuild your home, or pay you the amount of the assessed quote to repair or rebuild it, without you having to set a specific sum insured.
Will Home Insurance cover keep up with rising costs?
Your sum insured may not automatically increase year-on-year. If you’re worried about rising building costs leaving you underinsured, consider taking each annual policy renewal as an opportunity to review your sum insured. Revisiting the home building and contents calculators before you renew may give you an idea of whether your sum insured remains sufficient.
AAMI Home Building and Home Contents Insurance, Landlord Insurance, Strata Insurance, Car Insurance, Motorcycle Insurance, NSW and SA CTP Insurance, ACT MAI Insurance, Caravan Insurance, Business Insurance and Travel Insurance are issued by AAI Limited ABN 48 005 297 807 AFSL 230859 (AAI) trading as AAMI.
Any advice has been prepared without taking into account your particular objectives, financial situation or needs, so you should consider whether it is appropriate for you before acting on it. Please read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement before you make any decision regarding this product. The Target Market Determination is also available.
Home Building Calculator
Update policy
Need to update your policy before you pay? Or don't have your Payment Reference Number handy? With My Account you can:
* limit of $5,000 for online payments.
1 FYI, if the premium payment for your policy is overdue, you won’t be able to edit it before paying.
Update policy
Need to update your policy before you pay? Or don't have your Payment Reference Number handy? With My Account you can:
Quick renewal
Just need to renew your policy, without updating any policy info? No worries! You can do it in just a few moments, with no login required — all you need is:
If the payment is successful, the premium will be debited from your payment card. You should see your account updated within 2 business days.
Quick payment
Just need to pay your excess, without updating any policy info? No worries! You can do it in just a few moments, with no login required — all you need is:
If the payment is successful, the premium will be debited from your payment card. You should see your account updated within 2 business days.
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Manage your policy
Want to make payments while on the go? With the AAMI App you can:
AAMI App
Manage your policy
Want to make payments while on the go? With the AAMI App you can:
Check amount covered
In most cases, the replacement value of cars decrease over time, but in recent years, due to increased costs and constrained supply, we have seen some cars increase in value. As such, your amount covered will be automatically changed to reflect this.
You can increase or decrease your amount covered, within a specified range, and your premium will change accordingly.
You can also choose to insure your vehicle for Market Value. This will change your premium.
Refer to the PDS for details.
Kilometres driven
When you took out your policy, you would've given us an estimate of how much you drive your car in a year, and that figure informs your premium price. Usually, a higher estimate results in a higher premium, since your'e at greater risk of an incident. If you find yourself driving a lot less then you estimated, maybe because you're working from home or walking to the shops rather than driving, you can log in and adjust this figure. Doing so may reduce your premium a little.
Review listed drivers
Listing additional drivers on your policy can alter your premium, depending on their details and claims history. For example, if you have a teenager who used your car when they started driving but has since bought their own, they may no longer need to be listed. If you decide to remove them, your premium might be reduced.
Your address
If you've moved, make sure your address is updated on your policy. Your location can affect your premium, based on that location's level of risk, so your address being updated can result in your payments being adjusted. Fair warning; that adjustment can reduce your premium, or it may result in an increase. Either way, you'll ensure you're not at risk of having a claim denied or reduced due to incorrect address details.
Eligible policies
Eligible policies include Comprehensive Car Insurance.
Your excess
With AAMI Flexi-Premiums®, you can choose to lower your premium by increasing your excess This'll mean that, while your monthly or yearly premium is cheaper, you'll face more out-of-pocket costs if you make a claim where you're liable to pay an excess. Whether that trade-off is worth it is totally up to you, but it's worth considering.
Updating your details
You may need to update your address, or record a change of car ownership. If so, just get in touch with Service NSW online or call 13 77 88.
To update vehicle driver details or driving history, give AAMI a call on 13 22 44.
Mon–Fri, 8am–6pm NSW time
Sat & Sun, 8am–4pm NSW time
PRN
You can find your Payment Reference Number on your AAMI Renewal Notice.
Payment Reference Number
This can be found in the payment slip of the insurance notice or correspondence you received from us.
Email address
Please enter a valid email address. This is where we’ll send your payment receipt.
BPay Help
How was I provided the BPay infomation?
Your policy renewal was sent via email or post depending on which option you selected when you purchased the policy, or modified in your online settings. You can change your account settings – including how you receive your renewal – by logging in.
Where is the BPay information located?
I still need assistance?
If you cannot locate the payment reference number please call our contact centre for assistance.
13 22 44
24 hours / 7 days a week
Business Insurance Biller Code
Note that the AAMI Business Insurance biller code is different to AAMI Personal Insurance, e.g. Car and Home Insurance.
How was I provided the BPay infomation?
Your policy renewal was sent via email or post depending on which option you selected when you purchased the policy, or modified in your online settings. You can change your account settings – including how you receive your renewal – by logging in.
Where is the BPay information located?
I still need assistance?
If you cannot locate the payment reference number please call our contact centre for assistance.
13 22 44
24 hours / 7 days a week
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Quick renewal
Just need to renew your policy, without updating any policy info? No worries! You can do it in just a few moments, with no login required — all you need is:
If the payment is successful, the premium will be debited from your payment card. You should see your account updated within 2 business days.
Online Discount Terms & Conditions
Any subsequent discounts are applied to the already discounted premium, before government taxes and charges.
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.
Tax Probe
Covers you for the professional fees incurred if your business’s financial or tax affairs are audited by an authorised authority.
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.