So I wanted to try Neos after meeting a Zoopla exec who said they had invested.
But when the premium came out at over 4x my existing renewal quote I became less enthused.
And then I saw the Excess Charge (for making a claim) was £1,000 vs the £250 norm, I ran away to the nearest comparison site to find vanilla home insurance.
I think the conversion process might need looking at to make the benefits less nakedly focused on cost.
Give us another go in a few weeks - our initial trials we were partnered with Hiscox, and were bound to only their (really expensive) policies.
We're now in the final stages of rolling out our own policies which are much more competitive - quoting on my own house has our policies coming out cheaper than my current home insurance policy, with much better service.
Unmortgage started with a simple idea: Don't get a mortgage, get a crowd.
As of this week this idea became something that is genuinely helping people realise their homeowning dreams.
I'm excited and am hoping to share this journey with people equally passionate about changing the world for the better.
We're super lean and very early stage - http://unmortgage.com - yes, we release early and ugly to validate.
Looking for a full stack developer who wants to use data to change the way people make decisions about their single largest purchase: starting with automating conveyancing.
We exist to help those no-one else is helping.
This principle guides us so that we focus on genuinely changing people's lives, rather than incremental value add.
I'm on ray@unmortgage.com - or call me on 077 95 27 35 52 for an informal chat.
Unmortgage | London, UK | ONSITE | FULL-TIME Designer - Producer of Pretty
We're fixing the broken housing ladder with DIY Shared Ownership.
Unmortgage offers a completely new way for people to get on the housing ladder without needing to take out a mortgage.
Occupiers get capital to buy a home worth up to ten times their income with only a 5% deposit.
It also opens up owner-occupied residential property as an asset class for pension funds, who earn inflation-linked rent on the portion the occupier doesn't own.
Wigwamm | Back-end Dev | London, UK – Full Time – ONSITE
We're building the best property finding app in the world, which means building the best property database in the world.
We have track record of building beautiful products [0]. We're hiring for a back-end dev to turbo charge this new app and help people find property properly [1].
Market-rate salary, freedom to be creative, no hassle work environment.
If what is relayed in this story is factual (most intent to purchase a book, discovery, happens offline), then surely bookshops still have a lot of power a should refuse to stock books distributed on Amazon.
It's not realistic, but would be an interesting controlled experiment.
I carry two Bic biros (one black, one blue) everywhere. I can lose them and there's no problem. They write consistently and state that I'm not all prissy about accessories.
But when the premium came out at over 4x my existing renewal quote I became less enthused.
And then I saw the Excess Charge (for making a claim) was £1,000 vs the £250 norm, I ran away to the nearest comparison site to find vanilla home insurance.
I think the conversion process might need looking at to make the benefits less nakedly focused on cost.