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Saga: Home insurance reviews

Name: Home insurance
Rating: 4.81 (2634 reviews)

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4.65

Based on 2,634 reviews, last reviewed 5th Mar 2025

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Latest highest rating:

5

GREAT DISCOUNT. I CONTACTED SAGA WHEN MY RENEWAL WAS DUE AND THEY GAVE ME £30 OFF THEIR RENEWAL PRICE Reviewed on: 6th October 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Woefully poor emergency claims experience We are in the middle of an ongoing and still unresolved EMERGENCY PLUMBING CLAIM after four and a half weeks. The Claims team don’t understand about b... Read more Reviewed on: 5th March 2025

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About this product

Saga provide home insurance policies that can cover buildings only, contents only or both combined.

Saga offers two levels of cover, Saga Plus and Saga Select. With Saga Plus, you can expect to pay the same price for 3 years if there are no changes, even after most types of claim. If you cancel during the year, you won't be charged a cancellation fee.

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Saga Home insurance reviews (2634)

Review of the Saga, Home insurance:

Rip off price hikes for loyal customers!

After being a loyal customer for over a decade with home and car insurance, this year I’m completely disgusted by the way they have hiked up their cost from £140 to £324! When speaking to an agent he said that the underwriters thought that this was due to some risks ie; area, claims. I’ve had no claims and everything is the same as before. They advised me to increase the amount to pay out for any claims from £100 to £700, that’s just nuts! Went online and insurance is coming up at £170 for the exact same policy that I had with Saga. Phoned to cancel and the woman was really snooty and tried to speak down to me. I’ll definitely be changing companies when my car insurance renewal comes up. The wait to speak to someone is shocking too, it said 15 minutes and had to wait for 30 minutes. This company has changed for the worse. Reviewed on: 20th January 2024

Frustrating

They made you waiting hours, with music. The claims does not want to give what the write in the contract. Imposible to get in coctat with the company. Always making mistakes. I will never make any insurence with them. Naither trips. They ignore you. Reviewed on: 6th December 2023

Exorbitant Renewal Quote

£134 year one-Year 2 quote £371. Ludicrous. Many providers quoting same as first year price. absolute joke. Reviewed on: 6th December 2023

Awful customer service

tried 9 times to cancel my fathers home insurance due to the huge increase in premium, could never get through. They sent a letter saying they couldnt take premium due to outdated bank details then took it anyway!! as the bank allowed them to do so. Kept trying to contact them still couldnt get through so raised a complaint and it has currently taken nearly 2 months to get anywhere close to getting a refund and now they are demanding further details. They use confusing and bullying systems and there is no way my father, who has dementia, would be able to negotiate his way through them. Utter disgrace Reviewed on: 16th November 2023

Absolutely rubbish when making a claim

Absolutely rubbish when making a claim. I phoned 3rd October 23, to make a claim about a leak as I had the accidental cover, a plumber came round and said he will order the parts and fix it the following week. Almost 4 weeks have gone by and many calls later to complain about the service and no fix. They sent a plumber in 26/10/23 and "stated its a new job and not authorised to fix it! What is going on with Saga!! need help please- totally rubbish service for the over 50's!! Reviewed on: 26th October 2023

Unjustified increase in premium

Renewal premium more than double. Rang and said I have just one question. The call handler clearly knew what I was about to say. Could not give me and reasonable answer about such a massive increase. Found it cheaper elsewhere BUT the real joke was that they used the same insurer as Saga! This was for landlord insurance and early this year Saga did the same with my car renewal! Reviewed on: 26th October 2023

Day three of Home Emergency and still not fixed.

My kitchen sink was blocked and I phoned Saga Home Emergency. I got through to the number listed but was then put on hold for ages to report problem. Within six hours a plumber arrived, but despite working on the sink for 3 hours, he could not resolve the problem. Day 2: hearing nothing from Saga, phoned, 45 mns wait to speak to someone. They said they would send plumber back and asked me to hold on whilst they checked something. Call cut off. I phoned back three hours later: 54 mns on hold. Told earlier call not logged. Then that as original plumber had sought extra payment, and had not quoted for follow up they had to wait for that to be done. I made a formal complaint. Day 3: Nothing until 4 p.m. when I got a text telling me my case had been resolved. Now on hold trying to speak to an actual person. Result: Stress and frustration. If SAGA cannot perform this basic emergency service, why are they offering it? Reviewed on: 25th October 2023

Incompetent

Horrendous increase + 3 times increase. Customer service - polite but less than helpful. I paid outright but they still set up a renewed DD. ( fuming). Cancelled. But dubious they have implemented the cancellation! I do NOT recommend Saga! Reviewed on: 18th October 2023

Massively overpriced

Renewal 64% increase to £1200 . ‘Compare the market’ had several quotes of around £200 for similar cover levels. Customer for 13 years and have clearly allowed myself to be ripped off by not changing insurer Reviewed on: 14th October 2023

Appalling service

We had a burst pipe in the roof space 15 December 2022. We told driers needed before any repair work. . No driers installed until 15 March. No plasterers or decorators were able to come until 25 May, after that it 6 weeks before light fittings replaced. Arranged to get carpet quote ourselves and saga to reimburse us 15 July. Work all finished August. Total of 50 phone calls, numerous emails, many unreturned phone calls. Had a letter of apology from Saga for long delay, and overall lack of communication. Was sent a bouquet of flowers plus £350 compensation. However had still to pay total of £550 excess and renewal of insurance had gone up £100. Haven't a good thing to say about my dealings with Saga house insurance. Reviewed on: 11th October 2023

Cover laid out easy to read

Good cover easily laid out,full cover shown Reviewed on: 11th October 2023

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