The weekly availability briefing
The availability briefing is a free weekly email from Home Insurance Watch. It carries every carrier availability event we verified that week, new-business pauses, market exits and entries, block non-renewals, and regulator actions, plus FAIR Plan and Citizens enrollment data as it publishes. Every item is dated and linked to a primary source. One email a week, nothing else.
Get the weekly briefing
One email a week. Every verified event, dated and linked to its primary source. Free, no carrier money, unsubscribe anytime.
Your address is used to send the briefing and nothing else. See the privacy policy.
What each issue contains
- The week’s verified events. Carrier pauses, exits, entries, block non-renewals, rate actions, and regulator actions, each dated and linked to the filing, bulletin, or statement behind it.
- Residual-market numbers the week they publish. California FAIR Plan quarterly statistics and Florida Citizens monthly policy counts. The tracked series currently run through 2026-03-31 (California) and 2026-06-30 (Florida).
- Links into the per-state event logs for anything you want to trace back to its source.
- Corrections, when there are any. The event log is append-only; corrections are annotated and logged publicly, and the briefing reports them rather than burying them.
A quiet week is reported as a quiet week. The briefing never manufactures alarm to justify its existence.
The discipline behind it
The briefing is new. The pipeline behind it is not: 48 verified events across 8 states since 2022, every one re-fetched and confirmed against its source before publication. Statuses follow a verified-or-null rule: when we do not have a dated, linked primary source, the site says unknown instead of guessing. Press-sourced events need two independent sources before they change any status. The full rules, source hierarchy, and corrections log are on the methodology page, and the complete event log is public at all tracked events.
Who it is for
The briefing is written for people who work in or around these markets: independent agents who get asked which carriers are writing, journalists who need dated and citable events, and analysts, lenders, and real estate professionals tracking insurability. Homeowners are welcome too; it is the same record we publish on the site, delivered so you do not have to keep checking.
What it costs and who pays us
The briefing is free. Home Insurance Watch takes no money from insurance carriers, and the briefing carries no carrier advertising or sponsorship. If monetization ever appears anywhere on this site, it is disclosed on the page where it appears. That commitment is published on the methodology page and in the footer of every page.
Questions
- Is the availability briefing free?
- Yes. The briefing is free, and Home Insurance Watch takes no money from insurance carriers. Everything in the briefing is also published free on the site; the email exists so you do not have to check the site to stay current.
- How often does it arrive?
- Once a week, after the Monday sweep that updates the event logs and residual-market data on the site. A quiet week is reported as a quiet week.
- What happens to my email address?
- It is used to send the briefing and nothing else. The list runs on Kit, an email service provider. Every issue includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes your address from the list.