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 ...

If you think your budget has been tight lately, you might look at your insurance bill. A 45.8% increase in regulator-approved home insurance rates is one that's severely impacting housing ...

Homeonwners insurance costs have been on the rise in the last several years. The average annual premium jumped 24% between 2021 and 2024, according to a December survey of American adults conducted by ...

Rate increases over the past few years have been hitting homeowners hard, thanks to increasingly volatile weather, inflation, and other factors. 2026 should see stabilization in the home insurance ...

In late 2025, Insure.com surveyed more than 2,000 insurance consumers through an independent research firm, Dynata. Customers named their insurer and rated it on satisfaction, ease of service, policy ...

Home insurance rates have risen faster than inflation in 44 states and the District of Columbia over the past five years, according to a new report by LendingTree trying to quantify the burden that ...