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Contents Insurance

General Contents – The invisible problem

Many homeowners underestimate the value of everyday contents like furniture, carpets, and appliances, assuming their old valuations are still accurate. This article explores how rising costs, changing lifestyles, and overlooked items can leave homes underinsured, highlighting why an up-to-date valuation is essential.

Luxury or Lie? A Guide to Identifying Replica Watches

Luxury or Lie? A Guide to Identifying Replica Watches

Luxury or Lie? A Guide to Identifying Replica Watches” explores the rise of high-quality counterfeit timepieces, their sources, and the motivations behind buying them. It highlights the ethical and legal concerns and the challenges of spotting fakes in the luxury watch market.

Limited Edition Watches

Limited edition watches – when exclusive just isn’t exclusive enough…

Why do people buy luxury timepieces? It is a question that many people will ask, but nobody can truly reply with one answer.
Is it to tell the time? – highly unlikely.
Is it a status symbol? – possibly.
Is it to stand out from the crowd? Again, quite possibly.

Coining it in: How a routine valuation unearthed a six-figure valuation

Coining it in: How a Routine Valuation Unearthed a Six-Figure Treasure

A recent discovery by one of our experienced valuers, Alastair Meiklejon during a Walk-Through Valuation,  led to an exceptional financial opportunity for our client, highlighting the crucial importance of the need for everyone to have a valuation and greater understanding of their assets. The item, part of an inherited collection, had never been insured and [...]

Getting to the root of it – woods in furniture

Wood is one of the greatest resources that mother nature has ever given us, from buildings, ships, cars, paper, its uses are pretty much universal. There is nothing involved in our everyday lives that doesn’t involve wood, and that may well be a unique quality. In our world, and fairly low on the food chain […]