Buying your first home is a major milestone. However, it comes with major financial responsibilities, including protecting your home with homeowners insurance. While many first-time buyers focus on ...

When you were planning to buy your home, every blog post you read, each podcast you listened to, and every expert you consulted told you not to forget about home insurance. But do you even know what ...

Even if you’re doing DIY renovations and not hiring any outside help, you may need to tweak your home insurance during and after renovations to reflect the update. In some cases, your home insurance ...

With extreme weather events increasing in recent years, homeowners insurance companies have raised premiums or stopped offering coverage completely. Many of the policyholders hit with nonrenewal or ...

To get adequate homeowners insurance coverage, know which questions to ask. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of NerdWallet, but this does not influence ...

Having an understanding of your home insurance policy is important as you prepare for a hurricane — or any other catastrophic event for that matter. We’ve outlined seven necessary steps to ...

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 ...