• Home Insurance
• Property Prices
• Market Growth
• Cost of goods
• Risks
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• Home Insurance
also known as building insurance, which covers the building structure of a home against accidental loss or damage caused by fire, theft, or other natural disasters.
Let’s take a look on how to do this correctly so you can save some money. 👇🏽
• Property prices
Where do prices go from here?
⬇️ or ⬆️
My guess would be ⬇️
Property prices come down while the costs to build escalate upwards
Costs associated with materials could easily rise from here, especially with supply chain issues
Why is this even important?
Glad you asked,
What this means is that there will be a gap between the price of the property and the cost to build the property (rebuild it)
This is why insuring your property at the correct value is prudent
Let’s dive deeper for you homeowners. 👇🏽
• Market Value Vs Replacement
Insuring it at M/V puts you at risk of not being fully covered, especially if property prices decline.
What you should do, is insure your property at replacement value rather than market value.
Protects against rising costs; ⬇️ house prices.
• Building insurance
covers you for everything except for the land.
Calculate your home insurance value by what it would cost to rebuild your property, and not on the value of the property (price)
A key mistake many make, because of two reasons. 👇🏽
• Identical properties
One inland
One on the coast
Usually the one in the coast will fetch more in price because of the location.(Coast)
Now, if you insuring at market value then you could be paying extra for location rather than replacement cost - do your calculations.
• Building costs.
Homeowners are under the assumption that property prices only increase. No, No, No. - it’s not the case.
Building materials sometimes rise faster than property prices - if you insure at market value you won’t be covered correctly.
• Unlocking value
Bring down insurance costs by Installing:
• Alarms
• Electric fences
• Beams
• Smoke detectors
Let me explain the difference between RSA Retail Savings Bonds and tradable South African bonds.
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 🔻
** Glossary **
𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱:
A bond is a debt security. You can think of it as an I-O-U.
You lend money to someone, and then they promise to pay that money back to you + interest.
𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆:
Refers to the date on which the bond issuer (debtor) pays back everything they owe to bondholders ( creditor ).
1/ Introduction
When it comes to bonds there are two markets one can opt to participate in:
🟠 The Primary Market
🟠 The Secondary Market
The primary market is where you 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 but then cannot sell it to someone else because there is no secondary market for it.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 and this is what makes them different from tradable government bonds.
𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁,
Tradable government bonds have a secondary market where they can be traded or held to maturity.
This means you can sell it when you want to, but it also means you can potentially lose money if the bond price has fallen lower than your original purchase price.
With tradable government bonds, you are 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸.