Condo insurance coverage

Help protect one of your biggest investments with State Farm® condominium1 insurance.

What does a condo insurance policy cover?2

Whether it’s building property, personal property, loss assessment, personal liability or medical payments to others, we’re here to help.

Standard condo unitowners coverage

Building property

Helps insure your items of real property, including building additions, alterations and installations which are part of your unit and are your insurance responsibility according to the governing rules of the condominium association.3

Personal property

Helps protect personal property in your condo like clothes or furniture. It can also help provide protection for the personal property you take with you while away from home.

Loss of use

If a fire, explosion, tornado or other insured loss causes your unit to be uninhabitable, you might need somewhere else to stay. How does this coverage work?

  • Additional living expenses helps cover the reasonable and necessary increase in cost to maintain your normal standard of living during the period of repair. Coverage may be limited to a dollar value or up to a specified period of time.
  • Fair rental value helps cover the rental income if that portion of your condominium unit that is rented to others or held for rental becomes uninhabitable due to a covered loss. Coverage may be limited to a dollar value or up to a specified period of time.
Loss assessment

Recognizes the potential for condominium associations to assess unitowners for certain kinds of losses. What type of circumstances might require the condominium association to assess all unit owners?

  • Someone is seriously injured on common property (like a swimming pool) and the courts award a judgment that's higher than the amount of liability coverage provided by the condominium association’s policy.
  • Major damage occurs to commonly owned buildings and it is not fully covered by the condominium association’s policy.

For covered losses, loss assessment coverage would pay your unitowner share, up to the limit of coverage you select. You should review the need for this coverage with your agent and buy an appropriate amount of coverage.

Personal liability

Helps protect you if others make a claim or bring suit against you for bodily injury or property damage for which you or a covered resident of your household are responsible, either in your home or elsewhere and to which coverage applies.

In addition to settlement costs, this coverage may pay defense costs and court costs, even if a suit brought against you is groundless.

It is essential that you select liability limits high enough to protect your assets. If you need more protection than your regular policy limits, consider a personal liability umbrella policy. It helps add an extra layer of personal liability protection for exposures you may have from your car policy, your boat policy (if you have one) and your condominium unitowners (homeowners) policy.

Medical payments to others

This coverage helps pay medical expenses for covered claims up to the limits in the policy for people who are on your premises with your permission and are accidentally injured. The coverage also extends to people accidentally injured by your activities. However, the coverage does not pay for medical expenses for you, your family members or other individuals that regularly reside with you or on your insured location.

Additional coverages provided

Collapse

May cover damage to covered property resulting from a building collapse caused by certain perils.

Credit card, bank fund transfer cards, forgery, and counterfeit money

Helps cover certain losses up to $1,000 in relation to theft or unauthorized use, forgery or alteration, and acceptance of counterfeit currency.

Damage to the property of others

Helps provide payment for damage to property of others accidentally caused by an insured with some limitations.

Debris removal

Helps cover reasonable expenses incurred to remove the debris of covered property that has been damaged by a covered loss.

Fire department service charge

Pays up to $500. Higher limits may be purchased in states where available.

First-aid expenses

Helps pay expenses you incur for first aid to others for bodily injury covered by the policy.

Inflation

Automatically increases the amount of your insurance coverage on your building property and personal property as inflation changes the cost of replacing your property. The changes are based on the movement of an inflation index and are reflected in the premium at each annual policy renewal.

Locks and remote devices

Helps pay to re-key, replace, recode, program, or reprogram the exterior locks to your home and other structures located on the residence premises when the keys or remote devices used with those doors are part of a covered theft loss.

Refrigerated products

May cover loss to the contents of an on-premises refrigerator or freezer resulting from power or mechanical failure.

Temporary repairs

Helps cover temporary repairs incurred to protect covered property from further damage from a covered loss.

Trees, shrubs and landscaping

Helps cover damage caused by fire, lightning, explosion, riot, civil commotion, aircraft, vehicles (not owned or operated by a resident of the residence premises), vandalism, malicious mischief, or theft.

Volcanic action

Helps cover loss to a covered building and covered property in a building resulting from airborne volcanic shock waves, ash, dust, particulate matter or lava flow.

Absentee ownership coverage

If you own a home in a condominium association but rent it to others 100% of the time, please contact your agent about a rental condo unitowners policy.

Coverage in action

Let’s say a hurricane or tornado damages your condo to the extent that it is uninhabitable. Condominium insurance would help pay the increase of reasonable living expenses during the period of repair or up to a specified period of time.

What does condo insurance not cover?2

Causes of loss

Including but not limited to damage caused from flood, underground water, earthquakes, mudslides, settling, deterioration, contamination, nuclear hazard, birds, rodents, insects or domestic animals. If your community participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), you can buy flood insurance coverage through agents enrolled in the NFIP-Direct program.


Work-related exposures

Business pursuits or professional services. Learn more about business owners policies.

Vehicle usage

Liability from your ownership, operation, use, or maintenance of aircraft, motor vehicles and certain watercraft

To get coverage beyond your condo unitowner policy to replace your valuable items, consider a personal articles policy

Frequently asked questions about condo insurance coverage


A condo association policy helps provide property coverage for the condominium complex's physical structure, including exterior walls, roofs, and shared spaces. It does not cover the interiors of the individual condo units. The policy also helps provide liability coverage for the condominium association in the event a person is injured in a common area.


Adding up the value of computers, electronics, appliances, jewelry, clothes, furniture, maybe even something particularly valuable like an engagement ring, art collection or musical instrument can help you determine how much personal property insurance coverage you need.

Some interior features of your condo unit, such as cabinets, countertops, carpet, doors, drywall and other portions of the unit may not be covered by your condo association master policy. A State Farm agent can help you determine the value of the building property in your unit.

Getting a condo value estimate

Before you purchase a new condominium, determine the appropriate amount of coverage needed.

  • Ask if a replacement cost estimate2 is available when you have the condo value appraised.
  • Consult with your local builder association or a reputable builder for an estimate.
  • Check with your State Farm agent to help you with this process.
What factors could affect your estimate?
  • Upgraded bathrooms or kitchens (including cabinets)
  • Finished or partially finished basement
  • Additional rooms or living space
  • Custom molding or arched windows
  • Age of the home
  • Other unique features

One of the more important aspects of condominium unitowners insurance is the replacement cost for personal property. We offer two coverage options.

Limited replacement cost loss settlement

Helps pay for the cost to repair or replace your damaged property up to the limits of liability.

A depreciated loss settlement

Helps pay the cost to repair or replace damaged property minus the pre-loss depreciation up to the limits of liability.


Yes. In most cases, increasing your deductible will lower the cost of your premium. Determine how high a deductible you would be able to pay if an unexpected loss were to occur and compare it to how much annual premium you would save now by selecting a higher deductible.

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Condominium unitowners insurance typically helps cover damage to other people’s property, and liability for bodily injury that policyholders or household family members cause. It may even cover damage caused by household pets.


Typically, lost or misplaced items are not covered by standard condominium unitowners insurance, but the policy helps pay to repair or replace damaged or stolen items.


Usually recommended — but not always required — when buying or selling a home, home inspections let an outside, unbiased professional provide insight on the condition of a home.

Requirements vary greatly from state to state. Some of the areas inspected typically include structural elements, safety features, grounds, roof, exterior surfaces, attic, interior plumbing, ventilation and more.

Learn more about property inspections

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Simple Insights®

Looking for help protecting your condo? You’ve come to the right place. Articles from Simple Insights draw on over 100 years of State Farm knowledge.

1 Use of the term “condo” or “condominium” on the page is a specific and exclusive reference to the condominium unitowners policy offered by State Farm.

2 Please refer to your actual policy for a complete list of covered property and covered losses. Condominium insurance provides coverage for damage to your house and other structures on the property where your condo is located. It is important to understand, however, that not every possible cause of damage is covered. There are important limitations on coverage in condominium insurance policies, depending on the cause of damage or the location of your condo, and some types of damage aren’t covered at all. Coverage for damage from earthquakes, for example, may be available by adding it to a condo policy for additional premium, or by purchasing a separate policy. Coverage for damage from floods is not provided and is usually available only by purchasing a separate flood insurance policy, often through the National Flood Insurance Program.

3 Improvements to your unit as well as fixtures and equipment installed as part of the building may or may not be your insurance responsibility. Association documents should be checked.

Discount, policies, and programs and their availability vary by state and eligibility requirements.

This information contains only a general description of coverages and is not a contract. Details of coverage or limits vary in some states. All coverages are subject to the terms, provisions, exclusions, and conditions in the policy itself and in any endorsements.

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