Aviva home insurance

Whether it’s looking after the structure of your building or protecting your belongings against risks like fire, theft or flooding, award-winning Aviva can help.

Get started

Why choose Aviva home insurance?

With more than 320 years of helping people prepare for the unexpected, today over 625,000 customers have chosen Aviva home insurance.

Its home insurance has a five-star rating from Defaqto and Aviva is the first major insurer to receive the Ethical Company Award from the Good Shopping Guide for its responsible approach to business.

Aviva is also recognised by the Good Business Charter for its responsible business practices.

What’s more, it scores 4.6 out of five from more than 785 customer reviews on Trustpilot^.

Aviva home insurance

Aviva home insurance facts

Aviva protects your home inside and out by covering your building and belongings with its home insurance cover.

  • Choose from buildings, contents, or a combined home insurance policy
  • Tailor cover with add-ons like accidental damage, legal services and bicycle cover
  • Benefit from an unlimited sum insured for your contents and building
  • You can also buy contents insurance for tenants and home insurance for landlords
  • Contents will be replaced on a new for old basis
  • Cover up to a total of £10,000 for valuables like jewellery, watches and pieces of art

How do I get in touch with Aviva?

For general enquiries, you can use Aviva’s online chatbot or call its home insurance customer service on 0345 030 7078.

Lines are open:

  • Mon to Fri: 8am - 6pm
  • Sat: 9am - 3pm
  • Sunday and bank holidays: 10am - 2pm

What does Aviva contents insurance cover?

Aviva contents insurance protects your possessions while they’re in your house or garden and this cover also extends to money kept in your home, food in your freezer, and office equipment. It covers your belongings for damage and loss from events like theft, fire and flooding.

It includes:

  • Unlimited sum insured for homes with up to five bedrooms
  • A single-item limit of up to £2,000
  • Cover of up to £10,000 for valuables
  • Cover for contents in your home, outbuildings and garden
  • Cover for items temporarily taken outside your home or garden
  • Replacing your damaged or destroyed items with new ones
  • Helping to restore or repair items
  • Cover for cash kept in your home up to £750, including travel tickets and gift vouchers
  • Replacing spoiled frozen food if your freezer breaks down or is accidentally turned off

What does Aviva buildings insurance cover?

Covering your building for damage from unforeseen events like theft, fire and flooding, Aviva can help to make sure your home’s protected.

Its cover also includes permanent fixtures like fitted wardrobes, as well as driveways and patios.

Aviva buildings insurance includes cover for:

  • Damage to the structure of your home
  • Risks including subsidence, heave of land, and landslip
  • Damage to garages and outbuildings
  • Swimming pools, ponds and fountains, terraces and patios
  • Costs for alternative accommodation
  • Costs for replacing locks and keys, up to £1,000
  • Liability protection for injuries or property damage

What optional extras are available?

You can tailor your policy with Aviva’s add-ons to get extra cover for your home and belongings, these include:

  1. Protected no-claim discount

    If you haven’t made a claim on your home insurance for five years or more, you can use this cover to protect the no-claims discount on your policy.

  2. Legal services cover

    This will cover up to £100,000 of legal costs per claim for you and any family living with you. It can help to resolve a wide range of issues including personal injury and property disputes.

  3. Home emergency cover

    This will help to cover up to £1,000 in repair costs and up to £1,000 in hotel accommodation costs if there’s an emergency in your home - like a boiler breakdown or pest infestation.

  4. Personal belongings

    If you want your belongings to be protected outside the home, you can add this to your contents policy so that your personal items will be covered wherever you go in the world.

  5. Pedal cycles

    You can take out this cover if you want the bikes used by you and your family to be protected wherever you take them, whether it’s in the UK or worldwide.

How much does Aviva home insurance cost?

This will depend on the type of policy and any optional extras you choose. Sometimes a combined policy can work out cheaper than having two separate individual policies.

The cost of your insurance premiums will also depend on:

  • Your address and the type of property you live in
  • Whether you’ve made any claims in the past
  • The value of the contents and your buildings rebuild cost.

You’ll often get the best price for insurance premiums if you buy your cover about three weeks before you need it to start.

Who is Aviva?

Aviva is one of the UK’s largest insurance providers and it’s also one of the oldest, with its history tracing back to 1696.

Through various mergers and acquisitions over the years, Aviva has become a composite insurer made up of a number of different insurance companies.

These smaller units specialise in different types of insurance, helping Aviva to provide a wide range of products, including home insurance, car insurance and life insurance.

Frequently asked questions

There are times when you need to speak to someone to explain your situation or ask a specific question. If you need to do this with Aviva you can do the following:

For home emergencies, call Aviva’s 24/7 helpline on: 0345 030 6945.

For home insurance quotes call: 0800 015 4715 or for home insurance customer service call: 0345 030 7078.

Lines are open:

  • Mon to Fri: 8am - 6pm
  • Sat: 9am - 3pm
  • Sunday and bank holidays: 10am - 2pm

Aviva insurance is owned by holding company Aviva PLC.

As well as home insurance, Aviva’s size and range of specialist units mean it’s also able to offer other insurance products including:

  • Heating and boiler cover
  • Tenants and renters’ insurance
  • Landlord insurance
  • Insurance products for cars, vans, motorhomes and campervans
  • Life insurance
  • Income protection
  • Travel insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Business insurance
  • Personal accident

Compare home insurance quotes

Buy home insurance with us and we’ll refund your excess if you make a claim. Excludes accidental loss and damage claims^

Get quotes

^Up to £250 refunded after claim settled. Excludes accidental loss or damage claims. Full T&Cs apply.

Here are other companies providing home insurance

More home insurance providers

You may also be interested in

^Trustpilot data correct as of 7 December 2022.