Home insurance costs jumped 62% from 2022 to 2025, based on our analysis, and rising rates are expected to continue in 2026.

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

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Updated Dec. 24 It was 1991 when Hurricane Bob surged on the shores of Martha’s Vineyard, ravaging the landscape and damaging homes. But perhaps its most lasting impact was an increase in insurance ...

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Home insurance premiums in storm-battered Florida are at crisis proportions — with seniors growing increasingly anxious about whether they can hang onto their homes. Real estate agents and mortgage ...

LOS ANGELES — Last year, Francis Bischetti said he learned that the annual cost of the homeowners policy he buys from Farmers Insurance for his Pacific Palisades home was going to soar from $4,500 to ...