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Broker Code Changes Keep Insurance Transparency in Focus
Broker Code Changes Keep Insurance Transparency in Focus
02 Sep 2026: Paige Estritori
Australia’s insurance broking sector is continuing to sharpen its focus on transparency, service standards and conflict management as work progresses on an updated Insurance Brokers Code of Practice. For real estate agencies, this is more than an industry governance issue. It goes directly to how agency owners understand their cover, compare options, assess exclusions and respond when a claim needs to be lodged quickly. - read more
Stronger Insurance Code Signals Better Claims Expectations
Stronger Insurance Code Signals Better Claims Expectations
26 Aug 2026: Paige Estritori
The latest stage of Australia’s general insurance code debate is not just a matter for insurers. For real estate agencies, it is an extension of an ongoing story about how policies are sold, explained and tested when something goes wrong. - read more
Emergency Services Levy Reform: What Agencies Should Watch
Emergency Services Levy Reform: What Agencies Should Watch
19 Aug 2026: Paige Estritori
New South Wales’ move to shift emergency services funding away from insurance premiums and towards a broader property-based model is more than a state tax story. For real estate agencies, it is a timely reminder that insurance pricing is influenced by several moving parts, some visible on a renewal notice and others buried in the background. - read more
Severe Weather Claims Are a Timely Reminder for Real Estate Agencies
Severe Weather Claims Are a Timely Reminder for Real Estate Agencies
12 Aug 2026: Paige Estritori
Australia's latest run of severe weather insurance claims is another practical warning for real estate agencies: disaster risk is not limited to landlords, strata committees or homeowners. Agencies themselves can be exposed through damaged offices, flooded fit-outs, lost keys and access devices, interrupted trading, damaged vehicles and disputes that arise when client service is disrupted at the worst possible time. - read more
Insurance Complaints Put Policy Clarity Back on the Agenda
Insurance Complaints Put Policy Clarity Back on the Agenda
04 Aug 2026: Paige Estritori
Australia’s insurance complaints environment remains a useful warning sign for real estate agencies, particularly those relying on multiple policies across professional indemnity, public liability, cyber, office contents, business interruption and commercial motor cover. Recent dispute trends reported through the financial complaints system continue to show that customers are most likely to become frustrated when claims are delayed, declined, poorly explained or affected by policy exclusions they did not fully understand at the outset. - read more

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