If your own an an empty property then you will require an unoccupied property insurance to protect your investment. To begin with there could be many reasons why your house has become vacant. Just because it is vacant does not make it any less at risk for various types of potential disasters like flood, fire or vandalism. In any event the need for Unoccupied Property Insurance is most certainly there.
Let’s assume you have purchased a new home but don’t have a buyer for your existing one. You are going to move into your new home and leave the existing one on the market for sale. It still needs protecting. There will be viewings of people interested in buying your house and you are not there to oversee that nothing goes amiss. Someone could be smoking in the house for example and not extinguish the cigarette properly and it leads to fire. This is just one of many reasons why you require Unoccupied Property Insurance.