Mortgage Protection Quotes

Mortgage Protection in its simplest type of life insurance policy designed to pay off your mortgage in the event of your death, before your mortgage is fully repaid.

If you are looking to take out a mortgage on your principal private residence, you will typically need a mortgage protection policy in place before you can draw down your mortgage loan.

If you have no health issues, you can have your policy documents within 24 hours from your signed application return (subject to volumes). You can choose to apply and hold for a later start date and hold your quote for up to 3 months, or your next birthday, whichever comes sooner.

Your bank will provide you with a Deed and Notice of Assignment in your loan pack, which is sent to your solicitor. Once you receive your Mortgage Protection policy schedule, you simply use the detail to complete your Notice of Assignment and return both to your bank.

Your bank will then contact the insurer to complete the process.

A standard term life insurance policy is more expensive than a mortgage protection policy because the cover remains level. This is only needed for interest only mortgage loans, but can be considered by those who want the additional balance of cover.

With Mortgage protection the cover is designed to reduce in line with the outstanding mortgage balance, thereby keeping its cost down in comparison with level cover.

When seeking best value mortgage protection, you want to ensure the cheapest price fixed for your full policy term (not just some short term offer), but also to ensure, that your policy includes the most important complimentary benefits and policy features.

Complimentary Benefits & Features

In order of importance and based on the most useful added features:

1. The First Month Free:

This applies to everyone in terms of savings and can be particularly useful if you’re switching policies in terms of timing payments.

2. Dual Coverage:

Dual coverage unlike joint pays out on both people not just on the first claim. Most insurers offer this now with no added cost compared to joint coverage.

3. Guaranteed Insurability:

Health-related underwriting can delay some policies, and for new mortgages down the line, a change in health may also affect the future premium, unless the increase in cover required falls within the guaranteed insurability limit.

4. Missed Payment Reinstatement:

Anyone can change their bank account or miss a debit on occasion, so this feature is worth looking out for, with Royal London granting the best terms.

5. Second Medical Opinion:  

Can prove a useful resource for some and is offered only through Aviva and Royal London.

6. Children’s Life Cover:

A grim topic to say the least, but most insurers include a level of free children’s life cover, on average up to 5,000 except for Zurich Life, who doesn’t provide it.

7. Accidental Death Benefit/Advance Life Cover:

Offered by all insurers this feature provides life cover, even before health underwriting is completed i.e. between application return and policy release. Most insurers include this feature, but interesting Royal London will provide higher coverage, which also includes any cause of death (outside a pre-existing known condition) whereas others only cover an accident as the cause.

8. Waiver of Premium

This sounds like a great benefit, but it’s important to understand, that it covers your mortgage protection (life insurance) repayments and not your mortgage loan repayments.  Also, you must be continuously ill and unable to work for 3 months, before it kicks in. Only provided by Zurich, but the claim level is low.

9. Terminal Illness Benefit

This feature is included with all market policies, to advance the payment of life cover on the diagnosis of a terminal illness. What’s important to note is that this should be confused with specified Serious Illness cover, which is an added optional coverage, that can be included on all insurance company policies, but which seriously adds to the cost.

10. Digital GP

A super additional benefit, made available only through Aviva, but the problem is that you pay for it, as Aviva allows no price matching nor discount on their premiums versus the market, so for the same quote, you end up paying a lot more. (Tip if you already have VHI, make sure to check out if your policy already includes this).

We compare all the leading mortgage protection providers in Ireland to ensure that you always obtain the most appropriate and comprehensive policy at the cheapest fixed price. This includes comparing mortgage protection policies provided by: Aviva, Irish Life, New Ireland, Royal London and Zurich.

As long as you’re sure that you’re happy with all the automatic added benefits and features, and that you have also considered any optional policy benefits.

Keeping the cost down can actually save you in the thousands over the term of your policy.

One Quote can offer you any insurer policy you require but has also already compared all insurers and as so, always quotes the best policy coverage at lowest fixed price.

No, it is very rare that the life insurance company would ask for a medical, this only happens for very large cover amounts, and for older applicants on occasion. Sometimes a GP report can be requested if you disclose certain health conditions, but typically and especially if you’re young, fit, and healthy there is no additional health-related requirements post application return.

Dual Life mortgage covers 2 people but pays out separately on each. So, if a death claim occurs the mortgage gets paid off, but the policy can still be maintained on the second person. In the tragic event that both people died together, the policy would pay out double the life cover level.

The answer is that’s up to you as your mortgage lender can only insist on a policy with life cover, but we would recommend considering this additional protection if affordable and especially if you don’t have any other Serious Illness cover already in place.

Under a standard policy, you can decrease the cover level if for example you’ve pay off part of your mortgage early, but you can’t reduce or extend the policy term. If you have increased your mortgage loan, most policies will however allow you to increase the cover level within certain limits specified within your policy, known as guaranteed insurability limits.

Alternatively, if you opt for a Convertible Mortgage Protection Policy, you can also extend the policy term, or even turn your cover in a level cover policy, crucially without any need to answer fresh medical questions, so in affect this option future proofs your original health status.

The premium quoted on a mortgage protection policy already accounts for the fact that the cover is designed to reduce in line with a capital and interest reducing loan balance. If the cover stayed level for the policy term, a much more expensive level term premium would apply. Should you wish to see the difference in cost, run a level term life insurance quote with the same quote details.