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How Home Insurance Inflation Is Getting Zillowed
Episode 35 of Inflation Explained with Fexingo: CPI, Prices, and the Cost of Living for Everyday People. Lucas and Luna dig into why home insurance premiums are rising at double the rate of overall inflation, and how new data sources like Zillow and satellite imagery are changing how insurers price risk. They look at the April CPI shelter index (still sticky at 4.2% year-over-year) versus the 11% annual jump in home insurance costs, and discuss how climate disasters, reinsurance costs, and algorithmic pricing models are creating a new kind of inflation that the Fed's favorite gauges…
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