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Insurance can help alleviate the financial and emotional stress associated with the loss of assets. Canstar reviews Trade Me's levels of cover.

Outstanding Value Winner

Trade Me Insurance is a winner of one of Canstar's 2025 Outstanding Value Home & Contents Insurance Awards. Trade Me Insurance earns Canstar's accolade due to the great levels of cover offered by its home and contents insurance products and their competitive pricing. Click here for more information.

Canstar 2025 Outstanding Value Home & Contents Insurance Award

What’s on offer from Trade Me Insurance?

Trade Me offers competitive premiums across all its insurance products, including a 15% discount for Trade Me members.

It has one home policy and one contents policy.

What's on offer from Trade Me Insurance's home insurance?

Trade Me's home insurance includes:

  • Liability protection up to $20m
  • Sum insured plus 20% if home destroyed by fire
  • $15,000 sustainability upgrade
  • Cover of $25,000 for temporary accommodation
  • One event, one excess
  • $25,000 cover for retaining walls
  • $20,000 house under minor alterations cover
  • $2000 gradual damage cover

What's on offer from Trade Me Insurance's contents insurance?

Trade Me's contents insurance includes:

  • Accidental loss or damage
  • New for old replacement or repair your contents, up to policy limits and sum insured
  • Accidental damage anywhere in NZ
  • Cover for contents while moving home
  • $1000 for mobile phones
  • Jewellery up to $2500 per item
  • Prescription glasses/contacts $5000 (reduced excess)
  • Credit card/debit fraud: $1000
  • Fatal injury: $5000
  • Bodily injury: $100,000
  • Home office: $5000
  • $20m liability protection
  • Cover of $25,000 for temporary accommodation
  • One event, one excess
  • Student cover: $5000

About Trade Me Insurance

Trade Me Insurance, launched in 2015, is the insurance arm of Trade Me. All of Trade Me's insurance policies are underwritten by Tower.

Bruce Pitchers is Canstar's NZ Editor. An experienced finance reporter, he has three decades’ experience as a journalist and has worked for major media companies in Australia, the UK and NZ, including ACP, Are Media, Bauer Media Group, Fairfax, Pacific Magazines, News Corp and TVNZ. As a freelancer, he has worked for The Australian Financial Review, the NZ Financial Markets Authority and major banks and investment companies on both sides of the Tasman.
In his role at Canstar, he has been a regular commentator in the NZ media, including on the DrivenStuff and One Roof websites, the NZ Herald, Radio NZ, and Newstalk ZB.
Away from Canstar, Bruce creates puzzles for magazines including Woman’s Day and New Idea. He is also the co-author of the murder-mystery puzzle book 5 Minute Murder.