Start a new career as a professional Home Inspector

By law from 1st August 2007 people selling properties in England and Wales began needing to provide potential purchasers with a Home Information Pack (HIP) that must include an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) issued by a qualified Home Inspector or Domestic Energy Assessor and may include a Home Condition Report that can only be produced by a Home Inspector. Government delayed and then decided to phase in HIPs over several months, starting with larger properties, primarily because there were not enough qualified Inspectors and Assessors. From October 2008 Government also requires domestic rented property being let to have an EPC.

Up to two million properties every year will be marketed
(click here for graphic on the Useful Stats page) and thousands of newly qualified professionals will need to visit these properties to carry out the compulsory Energy Assessments and optional Home Condition Reports. More of these new professionals will be needed to carry out an estimated 1.6 million Energy Assessments in the first year on properties being let. Although Government originally required Home Condition Reports to be in the Packs, it made them optional because of an expected lack of Home Inspectors but has stated they will be made compulsory again if not enough sellers voluntarily include them in their Packs. Either way, therefore, Home Inspectors will be needed and Home Inspector Training’s primary objective is to provide enough trained and qualified Home Inspectors for either a large voluntary take-up of Reports or, failing this, for when Government makes them compulsory, as it has stated it will do.

Those that do train as Home Inspectors could become a highly valued resource with a potentially far higher fee earning capability than lesser qualified Domestic Energy Assessors, of which there are many already either qualified or under training. Apart from only Home Inspectors being able to carry out Home Condition Reports, they may soon also be allowed to carry out valuations of properties. Home Inspector Training is already researching this opportunity, as well as others, as part of its aim to make its qualified Home Inspectors 'multi-tasking' with additional income streams.

Anyone wanting to become a Home Inspector should start training now, which most people can do in their spare time, or risk not being able to take advantage of the opportunities of this new legislation. Call the Centre listed above that is nearest to you. Home Inspector Training provides a ground-breaking, modular Home Inspector course for people with no previous surveying experience that leads to the Diploma in Home Inspection (DipHI) and includes training for carrying out Domestic Energy Assessments. The Government has appointed ABBE, the Awarding Body for the Built Environment, to oversee the awarding of the certification, and Home Inspector Training has a national network of ABBE Approved Assessment Centres at Tolworth near London, central Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester.

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