The term insurance can be described as reasonable transfer of risk of particular loss, from one body to another. For insuring, one has to pay a certain premium. The company that sells insurance is known as insurer. There are various types of insurances, property insurance being the most common one. Property insurance depicts protection for ones property against various risk factors like fire, earthquake etc. Property insurance is a very important step in securing your future. It is so because, a house is one’s precious belonging and no one can afford to loose it. If in future something happens to one’s house and its belongings than all that can be recovered, if the house is insured. There are two ways in which a property can be insured i.e. named perils and by open perils. The difference between the two is that in the open peril all the causes of risk are covered but in the named peril only those risks are covered that are listed in the insurance policy. Property insurance comprises of various types of insurances that are listed below.