The current situation of home inspectors

Mr. Hu (a pseudonym), an employee of a related institution in the construction industry, posted on his Cheyou forum, willing to check the quality of new houses for netizens for free, and suddenly received a large number of calls requesting house inspection.

"Many people call me' house inspector'. In fact, I have an obligation to serve everyone. " Mr. Hu said that because his industry is closely related to housing construction and quality, friends often ask him for help in inspecting houses. He found this market very big.

In fact, since the year before last, when the house inspection as a personal behavior first appeared in the provincial real estate market, most citizens were skeptical. "There are construction supervision, quality supervision stations and properties. What does home inspector eat? " Mr. Hao delivered a house in a residential area in the east in June. When his friend recommended him to find home inspector, he was also dubious.

However, after Mr. Hao found problems in the house inspection, he had no regrets about 600 yuan's house inspection fee. "I now suggest that you check the house before closing the house on the forum. After all, it cost 400,000 to 500,000 to buy a house. You don't have to check the house. The key is to live comfortably in the future. " Mr. Hao said.

In some community forums in the provincial capital, more and more owners who are ready to close their houses are looking for home inspector to close their houses. "Many real estates have found us to organize group inspections. Sunshine 100, Shanghai Garden and other owners are most concerned about inspections." Manager Li, the person in charge of Jinan Jinkun Runze House Inspection Company, said that the buildings such as Rongxiang Garden, Tianyuan, Rhine Town and so on have owners' requirements for house inspection. "China Home Economics Association will declare this new industry to the Ministry of Labor in the near future." Li Yurong, director of the Shandong Representative Office of China Home Economics Association, said that this will be an important step for the home economics industry to become formal. It is understood that the Shandong Representative Office of China home inspector Association has trained more than 30 people from home inspector/KLOC-0 at all levels in the past six months, and there are currently more than 40 people in Jinan.

Previously, although Jinkun Runze House Inspection Company was registered by the tax and industrial and commercial departments, it was still resisted by developers during the house inspection. "Our house inspection was chased by the property, and the house inspection report was robbed." Manager Li of the company said that non-governmental organizations are the places where developers and properties have the most doubts.

Not long ago, the China Home Economics Inspector Management Association announced to the public the first domestic registered home economics inspector's operating norms and ethics. "The standard provides detailed regulations and explanations on the operating norms, charging standards and professional ethics of domestic workers." A real estate professor at a university in the provincial capital pointed out that it is helpful to standardize the industry behavior, but it is also a private industry association, which is not mandatory and cannot cure the house inspectors who are mainly scattered soldiers.

For property buyers, this kind of "non-governmental organization" has brought them some difficulties in understanding and choosing home inspector. In fact, there are not many provincial capitals in Home Inspector, and most of them are "solo gangs". Buyers can only be found through the introduction of friends, and the scope, items and standards of services are different. Although the market is huge, the current situation of the home inspector industry has made many citizens have doubts, so it has not shown a hot scene.

"In the past, a customer called us, and the first sentence asked us if we would collude with the developer." Manager Jin Kun Li Runze introduced that as a new industry, domestic workers are not legally recognized by the Ministry of Labor, but a folk form under the market demand, which is also a place where many citizens question and doubt.

This new industry has indeed shown signs of chaos. The reporter learned that except for a few housing inspection companies, most housing inspection personnel are engaged in the construction industry like Mr. Hu and are good at building quality. In order to do more business, many independent home inspector often join hands with developers and owners, and the owners organize joint house inspection to extract agency fees.

"There was a foreign developer who found us to cooperate like this, but we refused." An industry insider told reporters that if there is a quality problem in the house, the other party will inform home inspector in advance, and home inspector must bypass it and cannot be detected. On the owners' forum of some communities in the provincial capital, many netizens posted complaints, saying that the house inspector deliberately missed obvious quality problems during the house inspection process and thought that the money spent was not worth it.

In addition, the confusion of fees has also left many citizens at a loss. It is understood that the cost of house inspection in corporate form is between 600 yuan-65,438+0 and 800 yuan, while the cost of house inspection in many private activities is between 65,438+0,000 yuan -300 yuan. Some private housing inspection companies without professional instruments and equipment have weak technical ability, which leads to a large number of citizens' resistance to the whole industry. Although the development of housing inspection industry is still in a spontaneous state, many experts believe that the emergence of this industry is from the perspective of ordinary people, but also the supervision of developers and regulatory authorities.

A number of residential owners said that inviting people to inspect the house is a spontaneous entrusted behavior of the society, and the quality problems detected need the written signature of the owners and developers. Most owners don't want to go to court, just want to know the consumption situation and settle in. Chu Fulin, deputy secretary general of China home inspector Management Association, said that in the past, the housing quality was the responsibility of the construction management department, but now the engineering quality of real estate projects is the responsibility of the developers, builders, supervisors, design institutes and engineering surveyors, and the latter four parties are all employed by the developers.

"From the perspective of ordinary people, home inspection is relatively fair." Li Yurong, director of Shandong Representative Office of China home inspector Management Association, said that this industry needs the cooperation of developers and construction units, and more needs the supervision and guidance of the government.

From June 1 2065438, Nanjing, the city with the fastest development of house inspection, announced the implementation of household acceptance of residential projects. The core content of the new method is that developers, supervision units and development companies should inspect the quality of each house, and the inspection process should be supervised by the government quality supervision department. For many home inspector in Jinan, if Jinan implements similar policies, their business will be lost.

"It may lead to the final disappearance of the home inspector industry." A real estate expert in the provincial capital analyzed that the government's disapproval of home inspector lies in the lack of evaluation criteria. It is precisely because of the lack of norms that such a general industry has emerged. However, if this standard appears in the future, home inspector can act according to it, and there will be a road to development. Li Yurong, director of Shandong Representative Office of China home inspector Association, explained in professional terms that home inspector is a person who provides house inspection services in terms of building quality, decoration, electrical safety and indoor environment. When the owner repossesses the house. The main work is to check whether the structure and equipment of the delivered house are in conformity with the contract, and whether there are problems in walls, floors, doors and windows, strong and weak electricity, pipelines, etc. After that, a professional "House Acceptance Record Form" will be issued for the owner according to the acceptance content.

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.

In the subsequent investigation and interview, the reporter found that so far, domestic workers have not been included in the national occupation announced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. At present, the former Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Construction have no clear regulations on the management of the domestic inspector industry, and the relevant qualification identification is still in the blank stage of the market.

Therefore, home inspector's position is closer to that of a "consultant" because they cannot provide a legally binding inspection report. And if citizens find that there are quality problems in the house and take the developer to court, the court generally only recognizes the test reports of professional testing institutions of government departments.