In the United States, more than half of the states have legislated and regulated the home inspector industry.
Home inspector is licensed in Canada, BC and Alberta. It is impossible to work without a license. In Ontario, Canada, the two largest professional associations of home inspectors are the International Association of Home Inspectors and the Association of Registered Home Inspectors. The highest titles awarded to its members are "Registered Senior Building Inspector" and "Registered Building Inspector (RHI)".
According to home inspector Bill Guo, a famous Chinese veteran in Toronto, Canada, the concept of house inspection is understood: "House inspection is a consulting service for professional evaluation of the current situation of houses in the process of real estate transactions; The information obtained through house inspection helps buyers and sellers to make wise decisions on the transaction price. Specifically, house inspection is a professional evaluation of the performance of the whole house and its subsystems. The current general industry standard requires that home inspectors, based on long-term accumulated professional knowledge and experience, mainly focus on visual inspection, supplemented by necessary testing equipment, so as to judge whether there are defects in building construction, estimate the remaining service life of main subsystems, and propose maintenance and improvement suggestions for defects. "
In the United States and Canada, more than 90% owners will hire professional home inspector as their consultant when buying a house. Home inspector's post is actually a technical generalist who provides paid services for property buyers. From a technical point of view, we can analyze whether the property is worth buying, the problems that affect the use, how to rectify it and the approximate cost. As a new professional concept, home inspector was introduced to China in 2006. At present, in China, home inspectors belong to a new industry with bright prospects.
When a large number of commercial houses are delivered, but quality problems occur frequently, the new occupation of "home inspector" comes into being. Like Jianghu Rangers, they are employed by the owners, shuttling between high-rise buildings and buildings, helping buyers to check the quality of their houses before going through the formalities of moving into new houses and providing quality inspection reports for the owners.
Since home inspectors came to China, obvious changes have taken place. Most buyers buy faster houses, and developers have a bad reputation. Operators generally want to spend clearly and understand the quality of housing. Home inspector became a house appraiser and inspector. This is actually different from the home inspector abroad. In Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other domestic cities, the housing inspection industry is relatively high, the quality of employees is high, and of course the fees are high.
Due to the major defects in China's housing acceptance system, the existing system protects developers, and collusion between officials and businessmen makes it difficult for owners to protect their rights. The phenomenon of house inspection has become the epitome of immorality in China real estate industry.
Explained in professional terms, home inspector is the person who provides house inspection services for the owners in terms of building quality, decoration, electrical safety and indoor environment. Specifically, home inspector's job is mainly to check whether the structure and equipment of the delivered house conform to the contract, and whether there are problems in the walls, floors, doors and windows, strong and weak electricity, pipelines, etc. After that, he will issue a professional "House Acceptance Record Form" for the owner according to the acceptance content. Their duty is not to deliberately stand on the opposite side of developers to "pick holes" and become a third party in market transactions seriously and objectively. This is the state they want to present.
It is understood that most people engaged in housing management work are part-time. Usually their formal jobs are mainly structural engineers, architectural designers, registered architects, project supervision, etc. As long as there is business, they will do part-time jobs in their spare time. Doing so can give full play to their advantages: because they come from real estate development companies or construction units, they are familiar with technology, understand the development process and know where the director's "weakness" is. On the other hand, they only have experience and lack unified professional training, which will affect the professionalism of house inspection. Therefore, people in home inspectors are eager for professional training.
Housing quality issues have once again entered the public eye. Some people say that it is difficult to buy a house, and it is even more difficult to buy a house. Now many famous real estate brands also have quality problems. Since then, the worrying housing quality has given birth to a new occupation-housing inspector, which provides housing inspection services for owners. The reporter's investigation found that in Shandong and home inspector, the level of good and bad are mixed, and the chaotic management of the housing inspection market has led to some stagnation of the entire housing inspection industry.