AUSTIN – Farmers Insurance agreed Monday to scale back a double-digit rate hike for homeowners coverage in Texas.

People who experience a burst pipe this winter are likely to need to put in a significant claim, Virgin Money Home Insurance has revealed.

The Texas Department of Insurance, the Office of Public Insurance Counsel and Farmers Insurance Company have reached a settlement in a dispute over a homeowners insurance rate increase filed by Farmers in June 2009.

You might be tired of hearing about the big freeze and fed up with the icy conditions outside, but protecting your home against the cold should still be top of the checklist. Insurer Halifax is advising home owners to take the severe weather warnings seriously, as the Met Office is predicting more snow over the next 10 days.

Authorities said the man ran inside the house three times to try and save his son, but was overcome by the smoke and had to be pulled out by a neighbor.

Many homeowners dusted off their homeowners insurance policy in the aftermath of last month’s arson fires.

Some things are out of our hands – and extreme weather is one of them – so whilst Blighty shivers in the snow, sunny Floridians live day to day with the threat of hurricanes – and home insurance premiums are soaring through the roof as a result – so just where in the USA is insuring your home the most costly and is there anything you can do about it?…

An important measure of future home sales fell far more sharply in November than economists had expected. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) index on pending home sales—contracts agreed upon but not finalized—dropped by 16 percent in November…

LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) – Help has arrived for Lufkin tornado victims. The Small Business Administration has set up shop at Lufkin City Hall. Applicants could be eligible for low-interest loans to get back on their feet.

Mortgage Lenders and Brokers Required to Provide Good Faith Estimates on Home Loans