On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:49:20 +0100, Hugh - in either England or Spain
wrote:

On 10/11/2012 19:20, Tim+ wrote:
Simon Cee wrote:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:43:56 +0100, Hugh - in either England or Spain
wrote:


b. Home insurance for the UK house which is unoccupied for up to 3
months at a time

While trying to sell a house of a deceased relative a few years ago,
after much searching, found nobody would cover if empty for more than
5 [?] weeks. Nobody.

When we went to sell my wife's 99 year old aunt's house after she went into
a home, we were warned about insurance problems if it was empty for too
long. As it had *never* been insured, it was hard to lose too much sleep
over it.

Tim


Thanks for the various replies so far.
The house is checked most weeks. the heating is on low, burglar alarm
functioning, varous lights on random switching etc.
I used to work in the insurance industry and didn't think it would be
easy. I will have to ask some of the other part time ex-pats out here
what they have arranged or whether they just chance it.

If you used to work in the insurance industry you'll already have a
view on 'chancing it.'

Just a thought - your mention of expats triggered it. You might find
some advice on one of the British Expats forums.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7 is general chat

and

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=75 for Spain.

Nick