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What’s Affecting Home Insurance Rates?

Inflationary pressures are contributing to the rising costs to repair and rebuild homes.
Here are some of the factors that may influence premiums going forward.

Material goods for new residential construction prices up 14.3% Oct ‘21–Oct ‘221

Asphalt roofing materials prices up 14.5% Oct ‘21–Oct ‘222

Prices for lumber and wood products up 6.2% Oct ‘21–Oct ‘223

15 separate $1B+ loss events from weather as of Oct 11, 20224

423,000 job openings in the construction industry as of Sept ‘225

 

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1 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index by Commodity: Inputs to Industries: Net Inputs to Residential Construction, Goods, October 2022; 2 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index by Commodity: Asphalt Felts and Coatings, October 2022; 3 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index by Commodity: Lumber and Wood Products, October 2022; 4 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, (2022), https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/; 5 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings: Construction, September 2022.

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