24 August 2026

Vacant Property Insurance UK: The Landlord’s 2026 Compliance Checklist for Empty Homes

An empty property can look peaceful. For an insurer, however, it may also look vulnerable. Whether your rental property is between tenancies, undergoing refurbishment, awaiting sale or temporarily unoccupied, vacant periods create additional risks. Escape of water, theft, vandalism, storm damage and undetected maintenance problems can all become more serious when nobody is living at the property. That is...