{"id":119,"date":"2011-01-25T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:22:44","slug":"new-homeowners-urged-to-change-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"New homeowners urged to change locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who move house are being urged to change the locks, as failure to do so exposes them to increased risk of burglary.<\/p>\n<p>The findings comes from new research commissioned by Direct Line and show that 63% of people moving into a new home do not bother to change the locks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70% of people have a spare key looked after by a family member, with 22% handing on to neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Direct Line\u2019s research also finds a number of basic home security errors are common, particularly leaving a spare key outside (often under the doormat).<\/p>\n<p>More than 3.4m people (7%) have a spare key outside, and these can prove greatly helpful to burglars, whether hidden under a doormat, or plant pot, or elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Direct Line\u2019s Matt Owen described the failure to change locks when moving into a new home and keeping a key outside as handing a gold-plated invitation to burglars.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Direct Line warned homeowners of widespread underinsurance, with \u00a3212.9bn in home contents not covered in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who move house are being urged to change the locks, as failure to do so exposes them to increased&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}