Difficulty finding home insurance for house over 100 years old

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I have received a lot of PMs on the question of insurance for Buildings with more than 100years (basically the vast majority of Central Dublin within the canals and even beyond). It is unbelievable in this day and age that there is no Irish central repository for landlords or property owner for insurance. The IPOA only provides one reference of the insurance company of its boss :angel:
Other website for Irish landlords is only providing pay for play
As usual the Irish landlord is left battling on his own. In any case last year I was really pi..ed off by the continous increases of my previous insurer and I spent a few weeks investigating who was providing insurance for old/protected buildings in Ireland and I found 7 brokers which all refer to 4 separate underwriters (all non-Irish clearly).
My problem is always time, but I have half an idea to build a site which would put the Irish landlord one and the IPOA one to shame, maintenance would be a serious time issue however.

My house is over 100 years and the only companies quoting for me were Allianz and Kidd. I went with Allianz as Kidd were asking for lots of stuff and I was in a rush at the time. I've only been with them for 2 years and so far the price hasn't changed

Last year I couldn't get a quote directly either online or over the phone. I then contacted a broker who got me a very competitive policy within a day or two.

I have two issues getting insured, house is 100+ years old and close to a river although no history of flooding.

And a belated addition to this thread. I just got a renewal quote via Chill for our Victorian Redbrick. They identified Plum Insurance as willing to take on a house aged more than 100 years but the quote was kind of eye-watering and nearly 50% higher than the previous year. I shopped around online but most of the online quote tools stopped me as soon as I entered the age of the house. One of those belonged to Zurich's website but I thought I'd give them a ring anyway. And, lo and behold, they were willing to give me a quote. Key issues appeared to be whether the roof had been redone (it was - about five years ago) and whether the electrics and plumbing were in good working order (they are: everything was ripped out when we moved in about 20 years back and reinstalled from scratch: literally no part of the house is as it was when we purchased it). To all intents and purposes then it is a new(ish) house. It's even structurally sound: we had an attic conversion in 2018 which required a ground up survey. So if your house meets those criteria, a quote will be forthcoming from Zurich.

Furthermore: a like-for-like quote from Zurich was less than half of what Chill quoted us.

Just resurrecting this old thread. Does anyone know of a broker who insures older properties. Plumbing and electrics all upgraded but the roof is the original 150 year old slate roof not suddenly going to break down now.

123.ie have a "built before 1850" option.