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Name: Home Insurance
Rating: 2.78 (67 reviews)

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2.41

Based on 67 reviews, last reviewed 4th Mar 2025

200% increase in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

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36%

2 star

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Latest highest rating:

5

Excellent and responsive insurer. Excellent and responsive insurer. We had a massively leakage causing 1000s of pounds worth of damage. JL ensured the work was completed promptly and t... Read more Reviewed on: 4th March 2025

Latest lowest rating:

1

Shocking! The boiler “care” service is a disgrace and JL should cut all ties with their chosen 3rd party. To clarify JLP insist on partnering with a company cal... Read more Reviewed on: 21st June 2024

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Whether you’re looking to take out buildings insurance, contents insurance, or both, you want to be confident that the provider is reputable. Our John Lewis home insurance reviews can give you insight into what you can expect as a John Lewis policyholder.

With three levels of cover: Bronze, Silver and Gold, John Lewis has options to suit many. The provider even offers specialist policies to cover listed buildings, homes built before 1800 and high-value artwork and antiques. There are no additional fees for paying your premium monthly, and no admin fees if you need to modify your cover.

If John Lewis sounds like the perfect provider for your needs, read customer reviews to learn more. Our John Lewis home insurance reviews are written by genuine policyholders. Find out how satisfied they were with the level of cover they received. Learn about John Lewis’ customer service and whether policyholders would renew with the provider.

Have you had a home insurance policy with John Lewis? Share your experience with others. Did you take out buildings insurance, contents insurance, or both? Share what level of cover you chose, or whether you required a specialist policy. Did you take out any additional extras, and were they reasonably priced? Did you encounter any hidden fees? Did you need to make a claim on your policy, and if so, how well was it dealt with?

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so far so good...

This is in part a comment on 2 recent reviews. Mike's experience below is known as "price walking". They've all been doing it. I've had the exact same experience with Direct Line. Switched to John Lewis just today. Better policy for less than half the renewal quote. Let's hope that the FCA's long-awaited new rules stop penalising loyalty... As to Stefan Phillips's lament about the policy wording for theft - whoever you talked to didn't know what they were talking about. Nobody's home insurance works like that. Just to be sure, I asked the question today. It turns out that JL's theft coverage is just like everybody else's. They all specify that the house should not be unoccupied for more than x consecutive days. Typically 30 or 60 days. Unless your grocery shopping trips take longer than the x days, you should be fine. Reviewed on: 11th September 2021

Do not renew your home insurance with John Lewis

We have been with John Lewis home insurance for the past 4 years, we received our renewal quote of £722.04. This showed an increase on the previous year. We made an enquiry on a comparison site and received exactly the same cover with a lower excess figure for £298.32 this was with Nationwide Building Society. We then discovered the policy was underwritten by RSA which is the same company that under wrote the John Lewis policy. Moreover paying by monthly direct debit incurs zero interest with Nationwide and 21.1% interest with John Lewis. My summary is: A massive rip-off don't use John Lewis for home insurance. Reviewed on: 26th July 2021

Home insurance to avoid

I just purchased the gold cover for buildings and contents insurance from John Lewis. Everything seemed fine until after I paid and they sent the policy wording. The bottom line is that nothing is insured if I leave the house. I called the John Lewis representative and gave an example of the policy wording for Theft or attempted theft, here is states that you are not covered whilst your home is unoccupied. The example I gave was, so I go to do my grocery shopping and whilst I am out my home is Brocken into and I am burgled, John Lewis confirmed on the telephone that I would NOT be covered for any items stolen. What a scam. How many people can be short changed here is they do not carefully read the policy wording. I am left speechless with John Lewis that they provide this exceptionally deceitful and poor service. Reviewed on: 10th June 2021

Rip Off

Home insurance scam. Check the small print! you will find out you are not covered for half that you think. Unprofessional from the start, came out and broke all covid rules and guidelines, stated we would be covered if we could supply boundary information to confirm, when supplied made more excuses and demands to try and get out of settling the claim, even though we have been told we are not even covered for half of it as its in the small print! If you have a electric bike, you are not covered even if you pay extra for bike cover! Rip-off The customer service is awful we will certainly be looking for a new insurer. Reviewed on: 28th April 2021

Great customer service

No problem with the company. Have been with them for 8 years. Reviewed on: 13th July 2020

Friendly and approachable

Tt have always been helpful giving me the best deal for my circumstances. Reviewed on: 30th July 2019

easy

uncomplicated procedure to get a quote and instigate insurance. Enquiries were answered simply. Fair price with cash-back. Reviewed on: 6th July 2019

No problems

Never had any issues with the and they gave me the best deal Reviewed on: 4th July 2019

Great value

Great value for money and great support with any queries we may have Reviewed on: 2nd September 2018

Great service levels

Easy to get through and help work through quotes and renewals. When required for home emergency cover all handled very well. Reviewed on: 1st July 2018

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