Are you considering energy saving measures for your home or holiday home property? Installing extra insulation in your attic or cavity walls, maybe installing renewable energy gadgets such as solar panels for your heating? The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation that provides free and impartial advice on energy saving. If you are considering […]
If you are considering purchasing a second home in the UK to run as a holiday let business, you will find this informative article `Making the web work for you‘ in Holiday Villas And Cottages Magazine of interest. Read the full article here In order to protect your property and your guests, selecting the right holiday home […]
VisitEngland has launched the most comprehensive business case for accessible tourism in England. The booklet entitled `At Your Service‘ provides advice on a lucrative market worth over £2 billion. If you make adaptions to your holiday home to make them more accessible for people with disabilities, please consider increasing your buildings and contents sum insured on […]
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One benefit of our holiday home insurance policy is that the comprehensive cover provided to holiday home owners accommodates the use of Key Safes to make it more convenient for guest changeovers. All our underwriters ask is that you take sensible precautions such as those covered in our previous blog post, You, Your Holiday Home Insurance and Key Safes. As […]
On 30th June 2011 a piece of legislation comes into effect that will ensure that an Energy Performance Certificate or EPC is required on Holiday Lettings. This will bring Holiday Lets into line with other properties that need an EPC, such as those currently required on sales and rental basis. As of the 30th June […]
Time is running out for holiday cottage owners to upgrade their property while simultaneously cutting their tax bills. A £30m tax break, which cuts the cost of second homes for more than 65,000 families, is to be withdrawn next month because of EU laws. Read the full article here
Our lettest e-Newsletter for furnished holiday home owners “Tips For Safe Holiday Home Letting” is available by clicking here In this issue: Holiday home Maintenance Checklist – ensure your holiday home is safe to let and reduce the risk of holiday home insurance claims. Holiday Home Owners Warned – Increase In Theft Of Heating Oil! Is your holiday […]
Ensure your holiday home is safe to let and reduce the risk of holiday home insurance claims in 2011. We have compiled this holiday home pre-season maintenance checklist as an aide memoire, it is not an exhaustive list so feel free to leave your own comments and suggestions below. Your holiday home Do you have GAS APPLIANCES? If […]
Holiday Home Insurance Specialist, Boshers Ltd has received the 2010 All Star Award from Constant Contact®, Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than 400,000 small organizations worldwide. Boshers is one of Constant Contact’s 2010 top performers and most prolific user of its email marketing tools. Boshers Marketing Director, Mark Lavington, commented; “We’re happy to be recognized […]
The cost of heating oil has increased significantly recently and this has resulted in more thefts of oil from holiday homes and elsewhere. The first indication that a theft has taken place is usually when a holiday home’s heating system fails to work. The assumption is often made that the boiler is at fault, but […]
UK Holiday home owners may find our latest email news bulletin of interest: Seven Tips For Safe Holiday Home Letting
Boshers advises UK holiday home owners to use quieter periods, such as the Winter months to carry out essential maintenance checks so their properties are protected from inclement weather and in tip top order for the following letting season. Mark Lavington, says: “Many weather related insurance claims could be avoided if holiday home owners were […]
Last chance for holiday home owners to comment on new holiday let rules. New rules on furnished holiday lets will make it more difficult to let certain properties, reduce the number available and act as a barrier to new entrants to the industry. That is the verdict of a Westcountry expert on holiday lettings who is […]
Holiday Home Insurance Top Ten Blogs From 2010. Listed below are our top ten holiday home insurance blogs from 2010. Full of informative holiday home insurance tips and hints for furnished holiday let owners in the UK. Holiday Home Owners Are Warned To Be Prepared For The Thaw Electrical Safety Advice For Furnished Holiday Let Owners Holiday Home Insurance […]
Boshers commerical insurance and holiday home insurance teams have settled into our new office without too many hitches. Our phones have been busy with both new enquiries and a flurry of claims as a result of the very cold weather experienced across the UK recently. Details of our new location and a link to our google […]
Holiday Home Owners Are Warned To Be Prepared For The Thaw. Winter 2010-11 already shows signs of being an unusually cold one throughout the UK. The Met Office forecasters are suggesting that the cold spell which began in November could persist well into January. After a decade or more of relatively mild conditions the sub-zero temperatures […]
Home Owner – Winter hints and tips. Ecclesiastical Insurance have produced a useful aid for home owners titled Winter hints and tips. Download your copy here and keep your homes safe from the worst of the weather.
Flood Advice. As you may be aware a number of areas in Cornwall are currently affected by flooding. The Environment Agency has now issued a number of flood warnings in the South West & Wales. Ecclesiastical have issued guidance to those affected by todays flooding. For further information click here
We are pleased to announce that we will be moving to newly refurbished purpose built offices on Monday the 22nd November 2010. Our new offices have extensive IT and phone sytems to further improve our efficiency and service standards. That said, it is possible that our phone systems will be down for a time between 3:00pm and […]
Second Home Revival. A recent report by Knight Frank examines the growing demand for new-build holiday homes in the UK. The report highlights some interesting statistics such as in the three years up until the beginning of 2010, the growth in nights spent in self-catering apartments grew by 67% to 9.2m and the number of nights […]
Electrical safety is a serious business – unsafe electrical installations cause around 31 deaths, over 8,000 house fires and 1,150 serious injuries each year*. What’s more, most accidents can be prevented. In this post we explore the importance of electrical safety advice for furnished holiday let owners. Statistically, rented properties such as furnished holiday lets are […]
HM Treasury in conjuction with HM Revenue & Customs have published a consultation document on proposed changes to the special tax rules for furnished holiday lettings. FHL Consultation The consultaion is on proposals to ensure the tax rules for furnished holiday lettings are fully compliant with EU law and are better targeted at holiday letting businesses […]
When taking out holiday home insurance buildings cover you will be asked for your holiday home’s rebuild cost and this amount will decide how much you need to insure the property for. There are two main ways to find your home’s rebuild cost; hire a surveyor or or use a rebuild calculator. Read more here: Is Your Holiday […]
Holiday Home Owners are considered as Landlords under HSE legislation and therefore have specific legal responsibilities to their guests (tenants) when it comes to gas safety. In order to comply with the legislation all furnished holiday let owners should have all the gas appliances and gas boilers in their holiday homes serviced in accordance with the manufacturers guidelines […]
Owners improving their holiday home WOW FACTOR should consider their holiday home insurance! In a competitive domestic self-catering holiday market, holiday home owners are increasingly turning to property improvements to increase the WOW FACTOR and appeal of their holiday homes, cottages and apartments. When planning to undertake major improvements which go beyond new decor, owners are reminded to contact their holiday […]
Furnished Holiday Letting rules with us a little longer. We are always looking for interesting snippets of relevant information to bring to our holiday home insurance clients. This extract is from our own accountants, Stevens & Willey and featured in their Summer 2010 newsletter. The favourable Furnished Holiday Lettings tax rules are to be with us until […]
Holiday Home Insurance | Holiday Home Owners Require Liability Cover – Why? As a responsible holiday home owner you will always ensure that your holiday home is as safe an environment as possible for your guests and employee’s to frequent. However, it is often the unforeseen that will cause accidents leading to compensation claims which can […]
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