What is a Home Condition Report?

It will show you any urgent or serious defects, and also give you a general overview of the rest of the house. Only qualified Home Inspectors are accredited to produce Home Condition Reports. A report should contain a number of sections, as shown below:

• Section A – Describes the Home Inspector’s terms, and what parts of the house he or she will not inspect. Also, this section describes how each inspected part will be rated.
• Section B – General info about the house. This section would be of special interest to the bank in cases where the buyers are taking out a mortgage.
• Section C – Legal info for conveyancers and others. Also, health and safety points that are not really ‘defects’.
• Section D – Lists all the parts of the home that are inspected from the outside, such as windows or chimneys, with a rating of their condition. There would be descriptions of any serious or urgent problems.
• Section E – Same, but those parts inspected from the inside, such as ceilings, along with reporting signs of damp anywhere in the house.
• Section F – A visual inspection of electrical and other services. Bear in mind that the Home Inspector will not test any of these, just report on their condition.
• Section G – Outbuildings, such as garages and sheds, but not swimming pools or other leisure facilities.
• Section H – The energy report, and, if appropriate, how the house can be made more energy efficient.

How is this Report useful to me?

As a seller, a home condition report will help market your house, help you set and prove that you are selling your home at a realistic price in this increasingly competitive market. It might also help you assess the cost/benefits of having further work done prior to the sale. A real benefit of having a home condition report is that the buyer’s offer should not be renegotiated as result of their survey and so the sale is likely to progress quicker and much less likely to fall through.

As a buyer, a Home Condition report being made available by the seller will very quickly show you the actual condition of the property enabling you to confidently make a realistic offer. There will be no unexpected survey surprises and you can generally rely on the sale progressing without any need to renegotiation.

How can Bladen Consulting help you?

We have qualified Home Inspectors that can produce you a comprehensive Home Condition Report. We pride ourselves on delivering quality reports in a timely manner. If you have a need for a HCR and would like to discuss your requirement in more detail please call our customer advisor on 07771 811994.