{"id":540765,"date":"2026-04-20T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:07:07","slug":"period-homes-cost-double-to-insure-and-it-could-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540765\/","title":{"rendered":"Period homes cost double to insure \u2013 and it could get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather damage claims that year totalled \u00a31.4 billion, with storm-related damage up 32% and the average flood payout rising 60% to \u00a330,000. Deloitte estimates that weather-related claims for 2025 likely reached \u00a31.6 billion in total, more than double annual levels seen between 2017 and 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/uk\/companies\/wtw\/29859\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTW<\/a> warns that one in five UK properties currently faces flood risk, a figure it expects to rise to one in four by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weather damage claims that year totalled \u00a31.4 billion, with storm-related damage up 32% and the average flood payout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42338,59,57,58,98858,50,186474,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-compare-the-market","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-home-insurance","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-period-homes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}