Home Inspection Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Home inspectors and inspection businesses posted 43.3% of YouTube’s 314 most-viewed home inspection videos but drew 17.6% of their views; anonymous inspection-clip channels that name no inspector drew 72.6%, and one of them alone drew 51.9% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Videos of 60 seconds or less were 28.0% of those videos and drew 64.5% of the views; new construction was the subject of 30.9% of the titles. (Mark Studios) See details
3. Of 155 location pages from five U.S. home inspection franchise brands, 3.2% had a video a visitor can play and 11.6% ran a muted background loop, while 52.3% linked to YouTube (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
4. Florida had 7,773 active home inspector licences on October 31, 2026, and Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties held 1,216 of them: 671 in Broward, 481 in Palm Beach and 64 in Martin (our count of the state’s licensee file). (Mark Studios) See details
5. Texas had 3,609 active inspector licences of its three types, New York 2,224 home inspector licences and Washington 1,137 active licences in their open data in 2026 (our counts). (Mark Studios) See details
6. Employers had 146,720 wage and salary construction and building inspectors in May 2025, at a median annual wage of $74,690, but the code mixes home inspectors with government code inspectors: local government alone employed 53,640. (BLS) See details
7. 8,442 private building inspection businesses with employees operated in the U.S. in 2025, and home inspection was the largest product line of the industry in 2022, at 28.3 percent of receipts. (BLS, Census) See details
8. Agents reported that 20% of buyers waived the inspection contingency in September 2026, against a peak of 30% in June 2022 and a low of 12% in January 2026 (NAR’s REALTORS® Confidence Index). (NAR) See details
9. Porch Group said in its fiscal 2025 10-K that its ISN software brands represented roughly half of all U.S. home inspections, its own estimate. (Porch Group) See details
10. The “86% of home inspections find a problem” line comes from Porch’s 2019 survey of 998 homeowners recalling what their own inspector reported, not from inspection records. (Porch) See details
11. The “2–3 hours” inspection length has no measured source: the page that cites ASHI for it says 2–3 hours, while ASHI’s own page says 2-4 hours and gives no data. (Clever Real Estate, ASHI) See details

Who makes the most-viewed home inspection videos on YouTube?

Home inspectors and inspection businesses posted 43.3% of the most-viewed home inspection videos on YouTube on November 4, 2026, but drew only 17.6% of their views (our count). Most of the views went to anonymous inspection-clip channels, which post inspection footage under generic names and name no inspector, company, licence or place: 12 such channels posted 24.5% of the videos and drew 72.6% of the views. We read YouTube's own view-sorted search results through the YouTube Data API, with no country filter: the top 200 for 'home inspection', the top 200 for 'home inspector' and the top 100 for 'home inspection tips'. The third list has only 100 results because the project's daily YouTube search quota ran out after its second page. The three lists held 314 unique videos from 126 channels with 1,077.9 million lifetime views, and the median video had 470,840 views (our count). We sorted all 126 channels by hand from their own titles, descriptions and video text. An inspector here is any channel whose own text names an inspector, an inspection company, a licence or a service area for inspections it performs, anywhere in the world.

One channel decides most of the totals. USA Inspection, which posts 6- to 13-second clips under hashtag titles and names no inspector or company, drew 51.9% of all views with 34 videos. Its top clip, a 140.0 million-view, 6-second video published in April 2025, is the most-viewed video in the sample. Without USA Inspection, home inspectors drew 36.5% of the remaining views and anonymous clip channels 43.0% (our calculation). 7 of the 12 anonymous channels were created in 2025 or 2026, and several of their titles repeat word for word across channels ('The builder called it luxury. The inspection revealed the truth.'). One of them says it re-cuts a named inspector's TikTok videos. Home inspectors and anonymous clip channels together drew 90.2% of the views, and the 10 most-viewed channels 82.5% (our count).

How much of that reach comes from U.S. home inspectors?

Home inspectors that name a U.S. place or state licence on their channel or in their video text posted 27.7% of the 314 videos on November 4, 2026, from 26 channels, and drew 13.7% of the views (our count). Counting also inspectors whose channel country setting is the United States, 16.1% of the views went to 34 U.S. inspector channels. Texas stands out: inspectors with TREC licence numbers or Dallas, Houston or Austin service areas in their channel text posted 42 of the videos, from 10 channels, and drew 5.1% of the views. Inspector Randle, a Dallas-Fort Worth inspector whose channel text gives his TREC number, holds 17.3% of all the views that inspectors drew (our calculation).

Four inspector channels name a Florida place (in Northeast Florida, in a three-state service area that includes Florida, in a '#florida' video tag, and one inspector 'located in Florida'). Together they posted 20 of the 314 videos and drew 2.9% of the views; 16 of the 20 come from one inspector who works in Alabama, Colorado and Florida (our count).

Inspectors who run their channels for a general audience, with entertainment, community or teaching beyond their own clients (or 100,000 or more subscribers), drew most of the inspectors' reach: those 14 channels drew 11.4% of all views. The other 28 inspectors and firms, whose channels show their own inspections to clients, drew 6.1%. U.S.-placed inspectors of that second kind posted 60 videos and drew 5.5% of the views. The median inspector channel had 13,050 subscribers (our count from channels.list on the same day). Channels of every kind whose country setting is the United States posted 54.8% of the videos and drew 69.2% of the views.

What do the most-viewed home inspection videos show?

New construction is the main subject: titles naming new construction, new builds, builders or pre-drywall inspections were 30.9% of the 314 videos on November 4, 2026 and drew 29.1% of the views (our count). 25 titles put a dollar figure in the title, usually the price of the house ('$2,500,000 New Construction Inspection'). The add-on inspections that inspectors sell are almost absent from the most-viewed videos, even counting every mention in titles, descriptions and tags. The counts below are regex matches, so they show what the videos announce, not what an inspector would see on screen.

None of the 314 videos carried YouTube's altered or synthetic content disclosure field (0 videos; our count from videos.list part=status). One off-topic video, from an Indian house-construction channel, says in its title that its voice was 'generated by 11.ai'. Uploaders marked 1 video as made for kids, an inspection firm's 'Home Inspection With a GoPro'. The median video had 17.1 likes per 1,000 views.

How long and how recent are the most-viewed home inspection videos?

Videos of 60 seconds or less were 28.0% of the 314 videos on November 4, 2026 but drew 64.5% of their views (our count). That share rests on USA Inspection's clips: without that channel, short videos drew 26.2% of the remaining views. The median video ran 120.5 seconds, and videos of 3 minutes or less were 66.9% of the videos and drew 93.5% of the views. Videos longer than 20 minutes, mostly TV renovation episodes, long inspection walk-throughs and investigations, were 12.4% of the videos and drew 1.6% of the views. Inspectors' own videos ran 60 seconds or less 17.6% of the time.

The sample is recent: 78.0% of the videos were published in 2024 or later and drew 94.6% of the views, and 137 were published in 2026 up to November 4, more than in any earlier year. Only 21 were published before 2020 (our count).

What does each search return?

The two broad searches return nearly the same picture. In the 'home inspection' list, inspectors posted 47.5% of the 200 videos and drew 15.9% of their views; in the 'home inspector' list they drew 16.3%; anonymous clip channels drew 75.6% and 76.0% (our count, November 4, 2026). The 'home inspection tips' list, read only to 100 results, is different: inspectors drew 21.3% of its views, and real estate agents, lenders and investors posted 21.0% of its videos (3.1% of its views). 150 videos appeared in two or more lists and 36 in all three.

What do home inspection associations, software sellers and franchisors post on YouTube?

InterNACHI, the largest inspector association by YouTube presence, posted 270 videos in the year to November 4, 2026, with a median of 304.5 views each and 58,200 subscribers; it is the only organisation channel among the 314 most-viewed videos, with 11 (our count). ASHI's channel, ASHIHQ, posted 0 videos in that year; its latest upload is dated May 14, 2024. Spectora, which sells inspection software to inspectors, posted 78 videos. The five franchisor channels we could confirm posted 139 videos between them, with a median of 14 views each (our count). We looked for each organisation's channel through links on its own website (after checking each site's robots.txt) or by YouTube handle and username lookups, and read each channel's uploads for the 365 days to November 4, 2026. Both associations and Spectora sell training, membership or software to inspectors, and the franchisors sell franchises; their channels speak mostly to inspectors.

HouseMaster's 76 uploads were nearly all short videos (71 of 60 seconds or less), posted until June 2026. None of the franchisor channels had more than 935 subscribers on November 4, 2026.

Do home inspection franchise location pages show video?

Few do, and the ones that do mostly run a muted background loop. Of 155 U.S. location pages of five home inspection franchise and multi-office brands read on November 4, 2026, 14.8% showed any video, 3.2% embedded a player a visitor can start, and 3.2% embedded a YouTube or Vimeo video (our count). 11.6% played a muted background clip. We read a seeded random sample of each brand's office pages in a headless browser: 40 AmeriSpec, 38 U.S. HouseMaster, 40 Pillar To Post, 15 WIN Home Inspection and 22 US Inspect market pages. The pages sit in 41 states and the District of Columbia. This is a read of five brands' templated pages, not of U.S. home inspectors, most of whom work alone or in small firms without a page per office.

Video depends on the brand's template, not on the office. Every WIN page read played the same background clip: 100.0% (our count). Pillar To Post offices build their own sites, and 12.5% of those read embedded YouTube videos. AmeriSpec showed video on 7.5% of its pages, all muted loops; HouseMaster 0.0% and US Inspect 0.0%. Giving each brand equal weight, 24.0% of location pages showed video and 2.5% embedded YouTube or Vimeo (our calculation). Links out to YouTube are more common than video on the page: 52.3% of pages linked to a YouTube channel or video, nearly all of them through the HouseMaster, US Inspect and WIN templates' footer icons. On the brands' homepages, 2 of 5 showed a video (Pillar To Post and WIN Home Inspection).

Every page offered online booking, mostly through the brand's own scheduling page. Only AmeriSpec offices linked to a named inspection scheduler: ISN, Spectora or HomeGauge, on 15 of its 40 pages. A sample report link appeared on every WIN page and a few others. Inspector bios are rare: 10.3% of pages named or pictured the office's own inspector or owner (giving each brand equal weight, 15.1%). A licence number appeared on 4.5% of pages; we recorded only whether one was shown.

Which add-on inspections do franchise location pages list?

Radon and pre-listing inspections top the list: 80.6% of the 155 location pages read on November 4, 2026 mentioned radon and 79.4% mentioned pre-listing or seller inspections (our count). 73.5% mentioned new-construction, pre-drywall, phase or warranty inspections, 66.5% mold, 45.2% thermal or infrared imaging, 43.2% sewer scope inspections, 28.4% drones, 28.4% 4-point inspections and 20.0% wind mitigation. These words come mostly from site-wide service menus, so they say what a brand lists, not what each office performs. AmeriSpec's menu, for example, names wind mitigation and 4-point inspections on its pages in every state.

Florida pages lean on the state's insurance inspections. 12 of the 155 pages were Florida offices. 9 of those 12 mentioned wind mitigation and 10 mentioned 4-point inspections, against 22 and 34 of the 143 pages in other states (our count). 1 of the 12 Florida pages showed a video.

How were the location pages read?

Each brand's office pages came from its own sitemap or state listings on November 4, 2026: AmeriSpec listed 61 U.S. office pages, HouseMaster 130 office pages (U.S. and Canadian; 2 Canadian pages drawn were dropped), Pillar To Post 326 office sites, US Inspect 25 market pages (3 of which returned 404) and WIN Home Inspection 233 office pages (our count). We drew a random sample per brand with a fixed seed and read each page once, at most one page at a time per site, honouring WIN's 15-second crawl delay. Of 10 brands tried, 5 could not be sampled: National Property Inspections (no readable sitemap), HomeTeam (sitemap refused), BPG (site did not connect), Inspect-It 1st (its domain redirects to one franchisee) and A-Pro (the domain we found belongs to another company). None was blocked by robots.txt. A rule set flags each saved page; a hand-check of 30 random pages agreed on 99.6% of 750 flag values, with the remaining misses all on the inspector-bio flag (our count). The per-page file lists brand, page URL, state and every flag, with Pillar To Post office addresses withheld because most are the owner's name.

How many home buyers waive the inspection contingency?

About one buyer in five: REALTORS® reported that 20% of buyers waived the inspection contingency in September 2026, the latest month published (NAR REALTORS® Confidence Index, September 2026). The figure comes from NAR's monthly survey of its members, who describe their most recent sale; the September 2026 survey had 1,701 respondents, 817 of them with a client that month. It counts buyers who gave up the right to cancel or renegotiate after an inspection, not buyers who skipped the inspection itself. NAR is the trade association of the agents it surveys.

In the same month 18% of buyers waived the appraisal contingency (NAR RCI), and 7% of contracts were terminated over the prior three months (NAR RCI). NAR's PDF shows the reasons for terminations only as a chart image, so the share caused by inspection findings is not published as text.

How did inspection waivers move from 2021 to 2026?

They peaked at 30% of buyers in June 2022 (NAR RCI, June 2022) and have stayed between 12% and 25% in every month published since. NAR began asking the question in April 2021 (NAR Economists' Outlook), when 25% of buyers waived the inspection contingency, per a survey of more than 3,300 REALTORS® (REALTOR® Magazine). No NAR figure exists for 2019 or 2020. The low point was 12% in January 2026, which NAR called "a new low in the dataset" (NAR Economists' Outlook).

Each month is a separate sample of 1,400 to 3,000 respondents, and NAR states a maximum margin of error of 2 to 3 percentage points for each month, so small month-to-month moves are not meaningful on their own. In June 2022, the peak month, 32% of buyers also waived the appraisal contingency (NAR RCI), and 6% of contracts had been terminated over the prior three months (NAR RCI).

Redfin's earlier brokerage data shows the rise starting before NAR's series: 19.9% of winning offers written by Redfin agents in select major markets waived the inspection contingency in June 2020, against 13.2% in June 2019 (Redfin). The share had been 23.1% in March 2020 before falling to 15% in April 2020 (Redfin). Redfin is a brokerage and these are its own agents' offers, not a sample of all U.S. purchases.

How many buyers get a home inspection?

Most do: in Zillow's 2026 buyer survey, only 15% of recent U.S. buyers said they had no inspection before buying (Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report 2026). Zillow Group is a real estate portal that sells advertising and services into this market; its 2024 edition surveyed about 12,000 unique successful buyers between March and September 2024 (Zillow, 2024). The no-inspection share has ranged from 8% (2023) to 18% (2020) since 2018 (Zillow). In 2026, 52% of buyers had one inspection and 21% had two (Zillow).

The two series measure different things. NAR's agents report that about one buyer in five waives the inspection contingency; Zillow's buyers report whether any inspection happened at all. A buyer can waive the contingency and still have an inspection for information only.

Inspection is also the most common offer condition in Zillow's survey: 69% of 2026 buyers said their final offer depended on the home passing an inspection, ahead of financing at 60% (Zillow). That share was 70% in 2022, 67% in 2023, 66% in 2024 and 65% in 2025 (Zillow); the 2024 report printed 66% for its year (Zillow, 2024). Among 2026 buyers who remembered, 65% received a pre-inspection report from the seller or builder (Zillow).

Does waiving the inspection help a buyer win a bidding war?

Not in Redfin's 2021 data. Across thousands of offers written by its agents, buyers who ordered a pre-inspection were 25% more likely to win, while waiving the inspection contingency gave no significant improvement (Redfin). Redfin does not publish the offer count or the model's controls, and its agents' offers are not a random sample of the market.

How many home purchases could need an inspection each year?

As context only: NAR reports that 4,746,000 homes, new and existing, were bought as primary residences in 2024 (NAR), and the Census Bureau and HUD estimate that 679,000 new single-family houses were sold in 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau). Neither figure counts inspections. Waiver rates, financing rules and new-construction warranties all change how many of these sales include a home inspection.

How many licensed home inspectors are there in Florida?

Florida had 7,773 active home inspector licences on October 31, 2026, by our count of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) licensee file for the Home Inspectors board. The same file holds 403 inactive licences and 8,187 home inspector licences in all. DBPR's download covers active, inactive and voluntarily inactive licensees; it leaves out null and void, delinquent and involuntarily inactive records. These are licences, not people inspecting full time: a licence holder may inspect part time, work for a firm, or not inspect at all.

The file also shows how the licence pool has refilled. 648 licences in it were first issued in 2026 (January to October) and 515 in 2025 (our count). 1,502 licences still on file date from 2011, the first full year of Florida's licence. These are survivors only: a licence that lapsed into delinquent or null and void status is no longer in the download, so the counts by year understate how many were issued.

Most licence holders list a Florida address. 182 active licences had an address in another state and 183 had no address state recorded (our count).

How many home inspectors are licensed in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties together held 1,216 active Florida home inspector licences on October 31, 2026 (our count of DBPR's licensee file, by the county of the address of record). Broward had 671, second among Florida's 67 counties. Palm Beach had 481, third. Martin had 64, 31st. Miami-Dade led the state with 918, and St. Lucie, next door to Martin, had 144.

Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach held 26.6 percent of the state's active licences (our calculation). 65 of Florida's 67 counties had at least one active home inspector licence; Glades and Taylor had none (our count).

Source: our count of DBPR's lic04home.csv (file dated October 31, 2026; downloaded November 4, 2026). The full county table, with every Florida county, the out-of-state and blank-county rows, is in florida-home-inspector-licences-by-county.csv.

How many licensed home inspectors are there in Texas, New York and other states?

Texas had 3,609 active inspector licences of all three Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) types in TREC's licence holder data on the Texas Open Data Portal (rows updated through July 24, 2026; our count). That is 3,395 Professional Inspectors, 93 Real Estate Inspectors and 121 Apprentice Inspectors. 280 of the active Professional Inspector licences were first issued in 2025. The same data carries 2,438 Professional Inspector records with TREC's status "Expired less than 6 months", many with expiry dates years old, so only the "Active" status is counted here.

Florida's active licences were 2.2 times Texas's active inspector licences (our calculation). The snapshots differ (Florida October 31, 2026; Texas July 24, 2026) and the two states license on different terms, so the ratio is a rough size comparison only.

New York's Department of State listed 2,224 licensed home inspectors on November 4, 2026, individuals and business entities licensed under Real Property Law Article 12-B (our count of its open data file). Suffolk County had 362 and Nassau 278, the two Long Island counties.

Washington's Department of Licensing counted active home inspector licences by county in September 2026: 226 in King County WA DOL and 124 in Pierce County WA DOL. Its county cells add to 1,137 active licences statewide (our sum), and 266 of them sit in the department's Unknown or Out of State group, 38 with an Oregon address.

Smaller states draw many licence holders from next door. Connecticut had 520 active home inspector licences and 41 active intern permits on November 4, 2026; 194 of those active licences had an address outside Connecticut, 124 of them in New York (our count of Department of Consumer Protection open data). Delaware had 140 active home inspector licences; 73 of them had an address outside Delaware, 40 in Maryland (our count of Division of Professional Regulation open data).

Virginia's Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation does not split home inspectors out in its biennial report. Its Board for Asbestos, Lead and Home Inspectors had a regulant population of 5,617 on June 30, 2024, a figure that combines all three professions (Virginia DPOR biennial report 2022-24). The same board received 73 complaints in fiscal 2024 (Virginia DPOR). 17 home inspectors moved their licences to Virginia under Universal License Recognition between July 2023 and October 2024 (Virginia DPOR).

Source: our counts of each agency's open licence data; state-by-state status counts are in home-inspector-licences-other-states.csv. All counts are licences, not people working as inspectors, and each state sets its own licence tiers and statuses.

How many home inspectors work in the United States?

No federal survey counts home inspectors on their own. The closest count is the occupation they share with government code inspectors: BLS's Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) put 146,720 wage and salary construction and building inspectors (SOC 47-4011) on U.S. payrolls in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). That code mixes private home inspectors with city and county building officials, plan examiners and electrical, plumbing, mechanical and elevator inspectors, so it is a ceiling, not a home inspector count.

BLS's Occupational Outlook Handbook treats home inspectors as one specialty inside the occupation. It says home inspectors "typically examine houses, condominiums, townhomes, and other dwellings to report on their structure and overall condition", that they "may identify violations of building codes but do not have the authority to enforce compliance", and that home inspectors "typically inspect homes during the day and write reports in the evening" (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

Three BLS counts of the same occupation differ because they count different things:

• OEWS, an employer survey: 146,720 payroll jobs in May 2025, self-employed excluded.
• Employment Projections, which adds the self-employed: 153.9 thousand jobs in 2025, with the same 153.9 thousand projected for 2035 (BLS Employment Projections).
• The Current Population Survey, a household survey counted by main job: 120 thousand employed people in 2025, 12.6 percent of them women (BLS CPS).

Who employs construction and building inspectors?

Government does. The Occupational Outlook Handbook puts 36 percent of 2025 jobs in SOC 47-4011 in local government, against 19 percent in engineering services, 9 percent in construction and 3 percent self-employed (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). OEWS counts 53,640 of the occupation's payroll jobs in local government (BLS OEWS) and 47,310 in architectural, engineering and related services firms (NAICS 5413), the industry group that holds home inspection companies (BLS OEWS). OEWS does not publish the occupation for building inspection services (NAICS 541350) on its own, so inspectors at engineering firms and at home inspection firms are counted together.

BLS Employment Projections put only 3.3 percent of the occupation's 2025 jobs in self-employment (BLS Employment Projections). That share is diluted by the government jobs in the same code. Census, counting tax filers rather than jobs, found 24,097 building inspection businesses with no paid employees in 2024 (see the industry section below).

What do construction and building inspectors earn?

The median annual wage for U.S. construction and building inspectors was $74,690 in May 2025, and the mean was $77,730 (BLS OEWS). These are wage and salary figures for the whole mixed occupation; they include government code inspectors and leave out self-employed home inspectors, whose earnings no federal survey reports by occupation.

Florida's mean wage for the occupation was $71,350 (BLS OEWS). Florida has more of these jobs than its size alone would give it: its location quotient was 1.48, meaning the occupation's share of Florida jobs was 1.48 times its share of U.S. jobs (BLS OEWS). OEWS publishes no county figures, so Palm Beach and Broward appear only inside the Miami metro area and Martin only inside the Port St. Lucie metro area, where the estimate of 210 jobs carries wide sampling error.

Is the number of building inspectors projected to grow?

No. BLS projects no change for SOC 47-4011 from 2025 to 2035 (153.9 thousand jobs at both ends), yet about 14.8 thousand openings a year as inspectors retire or change occupations (BLS Employment Projections). The Outlook Handbook ties the flat outlook to remote inspections reducing the need for inspectors in state and local government; it gives no separate projection for home inspectors (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

What industry code covers home inspection businesses?

Home inspection firms are classified in NAICS 541350, Building Inspection Services. The 2022 NAICS Manual defines it as establishments that "evaluate all aspects of the building structure and component systems and prepare a report on the physical condition of the property, generally for buyers or others involved in real estate transactions", and names "establishments providing home inspection services" as included (Census NAICS Manual). Government code enforcement sits elsewhere, in industry 926150 (Census NAICS Manual), as do termite and pest inspection (561710) and hazardous-materials inspection (541620). The code is cleaner than the occupation code SOC 47-4011, but it still includes commercial and new-construction inspection firms.

How many building inspection businesses are there in the United States?

The United States averaged 8,442 private building inspection establishments with employees in 2025, employing an average of 26,636 people, by BLS's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (BLS QCEW). Ten years earlier, in 2015, QCEW counted 6,201 such establishments (BLS QCEW) and 20,219 jobs (BLS QCEW). Average annual pay at these firms was $72,663 in 2025, a figure that covers every employee, office staff included (BLS QCEW).

Most inspection businesses have no employees at all. Census Nonemployer Statistics counted 24,097 building inspection businesses with no paid staff in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), up from 21,577 in 2019 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). Together they reported $1,130,748 thousand in 2024 receipts (Census Nonemployer Statistics). A nonemployer is a business tax filer with at least $1,000 in receipts, so this is the closest federal count of one-person home inspection companies.

Census's employer counts run a little lower than QCEW's because they come from a different source and date. County Business Patterns counted 7,496 employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP). The 2022 Economic Census counted 7,624 employer establishments (Census Economic Census) with $4,464,207 thousand in receipts (Census Economic Census).

How much of the building inspection industry's revenue is home inspection?

Home inspection services were the largest product line in 2022, at 28.3 percent of receipts for U.S. employer establishments in NAICS 541350, by the 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census). 5,502 of the industry's 7,624 employer establishments reported home inspection receipts (Census Economic Census). Commercial work is nearly as large. Census does not publish these product lines for Florida.

Single-system inspections of the kind home inspectors sell as add-ons, from roofs to septic systems, are a separate line from the full home inspection. Septic inspections at sale are covered on our septic service statistics page.

How many building inspection businesses are in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Florida averaged 1,112 private building inspection establishments with employees in 2025, with an average of 3,096 jobs and average annual pay of $58,959 (BLS QCEW). Census counted 2,994 Florida building inspection businesses with no employees in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), 1,087 employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP) and 1,064 in the 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census).

In all three counties, as in the nation, Census counts more inspection businesses without employees (2024) than establishments with a payroll (2023 and 2025). Martin County's employer firms are small: QCEW's 2025 average was 19 jobs across its 16 establishments. All of these counts cover NAICS 541350 as a whole, so they include commercial inspection firms as well as home inspectors.

What share of U.S. home inspections runs through one software company?

Porch Group said its ISN brands represented roughly half of all U.S. home inspections in 2025 (Porch Group 10-K, fiscal 2025). The figure is the company's own estimate in its annual report to the SEC; Porch sells the software, so it gains from a high number, and it does not say what total it divides by.

The claim has grown each year. Porch put the share at over a quarter for fiscal 2021 (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2021), more than 40% for fiscal 2022 (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2022), more than 40% in 2023 across ISN, Home Inspector Pro and Palm-Tech (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2023), and more than 40% in 2024 for ISN alone (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2024). Porch bought ISN in 2017 (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2021). Its standard inspector software contracts were monthly, with pricing based on a price per inspection completed through the software (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2021).

The company counts cover home inspectors, title companies, mortgage companies and other home-buying businesses together; Porch does not publish how many of them are inspection companies.

How does Porch use home inspection data to sell insurance?

Porch said in its fiscal 2024 annual report that it was approved in 19 states to use its Home Factors data to price homeowners insurance (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2024), up from 13 states a year earlier, when the filing also said it had made "steady progress unlocking inspection data state-by-state" (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2023). By fiscal 2025 its insurance reciprocal offered property insurance in 20 states and used Home Factors to give well-maintained homes lower prices and surcharge higher-risk ones (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2025). Porch says Home Factors has insights into approximately 90% of U.S. homes (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2025).

Inspectors are also a sales channel: Porch said its 90-day home warranty is provided largely through inspectors to homebuyers during the purchase (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2023). Software and services for inspection, mortgage and title companies together made up 54% of its vertical software revenue in 2023 (Porch 10-K, fiscal 2023); inspection revenue is not broken out.

How often do public companies mention home inspection in their annual reports?

Rarely: 228 Form 10-K filings over 2001-2025 contained "home inspection" or "home inspections" (our count of EDGAR full-text search results). Only 9 did in 2025, against a peak of 16 in 2007 (our count). Skyline Corp filed the most such reports, 17, ahead of ServiceMaster Co. with 13 (our count). By sector, 28 came from real estate companies and REITs, 25 from insurers and 9 from homebuilders (our count).

The word for the worker is rarer still. 57 10-K filings over 2001-2025 contained "home inspector" or "home inspectors", and in 2023-2025 only Porch Group, Compass and Kingfish Holding used it (our count). Only 17 contained "inspection contingency" or "inspection contingencies", none in 2016-2023, and most of those used it outside home buying (our count). These are counts of filings, not of companies or mentions, and the big inspection franchisors and software sellers other than Porch are private and file no 10-K. The yearly counts are published in our CSV.

How many outlets do the home inspection franchisors report?

Pillar To Post reported 350 franchised outlets on its non-exclusive agreement and 32 on its exclusive agreement at the end of 2025 (Pillar To Post FDD 2026), against 494 at the end of 2019 (Pillar To Post FDD 2020): a fall of 112 (our calculation). Every count below is the franchisor's own Item 20 disclosure in a franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce; no government agency verifies it, and one owner may hold several outlets.

HouseMaster, AmeriSpec and National Property Inspections together reported 157 fewer outlets than three years earlier (our calculation). HouseMaster said Fifty of its franchised businesses closed in 2025 (HouseMaster FDD 2026). WIN grew by 72 outlets from 2019 to 2025 despite a drop in 2025 (our calculation). AmeriSpec's table prints its net changes as positive numbers although the counts fell; the start and end counts are shown as printed.

What do home inspection franchises gross, according to the franchisors?

Pillar To Post franchises with two or more home inspectors averaged $446,742 in sales per unit in 2025, with a median of $340,006 and an average job of $755.37; single-inspector franchises averaged $144,195 across 163 units, with an average job of $668.37 (Pillar To Post FDD 2026, Item 19). In 2019, before the split by inspector count, the system average was $227,461 (Pillar To Post FDD 2020). These are gross sales reported by franchisees, not profit.

WIN franchisees with gross revenue of $100,000 or more averaged 269,804.55 dollars in 2025 across 94 franchisees, a subset that leaves out smaller ones (WIN FDD 2026, Item 19). National Property Inspections businesses operating one territory averaged 132,622 dollars in gross sales in 2025 across 152 businesses, with a median of $90,468; 31% reached the average (NPI FDD 2026, Item 19).

What does a home inspection franchise cost to open, and what fees do franchisors charge?

The estimated initial investments in the latest disclosure documents run from $41,000 at the low end of National Property Inspections' range to $134,290 at the high end of Pillar To Post's. Each range is the franchisor's own Item 7 estimate.

Video shows up in these documents as marketing and training material. Pillar To Post's Brand Fund supplies franchisees with websites, social media presence and "video tools" (Pillar To Post FDD 2026), and HomeTeam's operations manual runs 176 pages with 25 instructional videos (HomeTeam FDD 2024).

Where do home inspectors get their business?

Agent referrals bring in most of it: Spectora's 2026 industry report says 78% of inspection business walks in through an agent referral (Spectora, 2026 Industry Report). Spectora sells home inspection software, and the figure comes from its own survey of 429 inspectors who use that software, run in January and February 2026; 94.3% were U.S.-based and 68.2% were solo operators. Spectora describes online search and other marketing only as "a much smaller share" and does not print the full breakdown by channel.

The same survey found 68% of inspectors expected their inspection volume to grow in the next 12 months (Spectora), and 19% named getting new clients as their biggest business challenge (Spectora). Spectora itself says the results are directional and not statistically representative of all inspectors.

What makes real estate agents refer an inspector, or stop?

Accuracy comes first and price comes last. In Spectora's January-February 2026 survey of 433 agents who had recently closed a deal (a third-party panel), 53% named accuracy and thoroughness as a top factor when referring an inspector (Spectora), and only 7% named the inspection's price (Spectora). Being slow to respond or hard to reach was the most common reason to stop referring, at 25% (Spectora, 2026 Industry Report), and 15% said reports that are too technical for buyers would make them stop (Spectora).

The report itself is part of the problem agents describe: 51% said buyers struggle to understand the inspection report (Spectora). 83% said buyers often ask them for insurance help (Spectora). Spectora sells insurance and home-services tie-ins through its platform, so it has a stake in these findings.

What happens between the inspector and the buyer after the report?

For many inspectors, nothing: 40% of inspectors in Spectora's 2026 survey said the relationship with the buyer ends when the report is delivered (Spectora). The same inspectors estimated that 66% of buyers ask them for repair advice after the inspection (Spectora). Spectora's separate survey of 506 people who bought a home in the prior 24 months found only 11% went back to the inspector for help finding a repair pro (Spectora).

How many inspections does a home inspector do?

Inspectors on Spectora's software averaged 13.4 inspections a month in 2025, down from 13.7 in 2024 (Spectora platform data). The figure covers Spectora's paying customers only, not the whole U.S. market. Among states with more than 100 active Spectora inspectors, Florida ranked third at 195 inspections per active inspector in 2025, behind South Carolina and Alabama (Spectora); Spectora notes that Florida's count may be raised by 4-point insurance inspections, which many Florida insurers require.

Platform volume rose 19.5% in 2024 (Spectora, 2025 Industry Report), and late 2025 picked up again, with September inspections up 20% year over year (Spectora). Spectora's 2025 report said the company facilitates 35% of all U.S. home inspections (Spectora), a share it does not show the working for; another software seller, Inspection Support Network (ISN, a Porch Group company), says it powers over 2 million inspections a year (ISN). Both are sellers describing their own reach. Spectora also tallies the defects inspectors log: severe defects fell to 9.9% of findings in 2024 from 11.6% in 2023 (Spectora, 2025 Industry Report), using the severity labels inspectors assign in their reports.

The older baseline comes from the inspectors' association ASHI, which sells membership and training: its 2005 Business Operations Study of nearly 2,500 North American inspectors (2004 data) found 81 percent worked full time, with an average of 8.1 years of experience (ASHI Reporter, 2005). Pre-listing inspections made up just 2.6 percent of their annual inspections (ASHI Reporter, 2005).

What does a home inspection cost?

Spectora's platform data put the national average inspection quote at $569 in 2025, up 25% in one year (Spectora, 2026 Industry Report). The two Spectora reports disagree on the 2024 starting point: the 2026 report gives $457, while the 2025 report gave $485 for 2024 (Spectora, 2025 Industry Report). Both exclude add-on services quoted separately. In Spectora's 2024 data the South, which includes Florida, had the lowest regional average at $493 (Spectora).

Prices were moving up: 52% of inspectors in Spectora's 2026 survey said they had raised prices in the past 12 months (Spectora). The marketplace Thumbtack, which sells leads to inspectors, gives a lower typical price of $360 from its own data, with an average range of $290 to $449 (Thumbtack, 2026).

Which add-on services do home inspectors sell?

Radon, mold and sewer scope inspections are the add-ons Spectora's 2025 report names, from survey data covering 600+ inspectors (Spectora, 2025 Industry Report); it publishes no share of inspectors offering each one. Thumbtack's cost guide lists radon testing at $150 and water testing at $125, prices taken from just two inspection companies (Thumbtack).

Drone roof checks are rarely a paid line. An ASHI Reporter article from May 2021, written by the inspector insurer InspectorPro, said most inspectors it interviewed fly a drone on 15 percent of their inspections or less and rarely charge for it (ASHI Reporter, 2021). That was a small set of interviews, not a survey.

Radon is the add-on with federal guidance behind it. EPA's Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon (revised March 2024) says nearly one in every 15 U.S. homes is estimated to have an elevated radon level (EPA), estimates about 21,000 radon-related lung cancer deaths a year (EPA), and says every radon test should run at least 48 hours (EPA). In a CDC-led mail survey of 995 recent single-family homebuyers, published in 2018, home inspectors were a source of radon information for 65% of those who had heard of radon, second to real estate agents (Indoor Air, Neri et al.), and 58% said their home was tested for radon (Neri et al., full text). In Pennsylvania, where buildings are often tested during sales, a Johns Hopkins study analysed 866,735 first radon measurements reported to the state from 1987 to 2013 (Environmental Health Perspectives, Casey et al.).

How do inspectors use photos, video and AI in their reports?

Photo-rich digital reports have been standard for two decades. Back in ASHI's 2005 study, 83 percent of inspectors already used a digital camera, up from 60.5 percent in 2002, and nearly 80 percent delivered computer-generated reports (ASHI Reporter, 2005). No association or software seller we found publishes the current share of inspectors who put video clips (walk-throughs, drone, sewer-camera or thermal footage) in their reports.

AI is the newer layer: 71% of inspectors in Spectora's 2026 survey said they use AI in their workflow (Spectora), but only 18% expected it to significantly raise revenue in the next two to three years (Spectora). Among AI users, 58% had raised prices in the past year, against 38% of non-users (Spectora); the survey does not show that AI caused the price rises, and Spectora sells AI features.

How many inspectors belong to ASHI and InterNACHI?

InterNACHI's own membership page listed 27,033 members on November 4, 2026, counting certified inspectors, students and applicants together (InterNACHI). Florida had the most of any state, 4,467 (InterNACHI). A capture from August 2025 showed 24,694 members in total (InterNACHI, Internet Archive) and 4,168 in Florida (InterNACHI, Internet Archive). A foreword in Spectora's 2026 report credits InterNACHI with more than 30,000 members across 65 countries (Spectora), a higher figure than the association's own counter. InterNACHI sells membership, training and marketing to inspectors, and says it offers over 1,000 hours of free online courses to members (InterNACHI). It also produces free video commercials for individual members, which they can send to agents.

ASHI, founded in 1976, does not publish a current member count on the public pages we checked, so no ASHI membership figure appears here.

What does it take to get a Florida home inspector licence?

A course of at least 120 hours, a passed examination and good moral character, under the 2026 Florida Statutes (Fla. Stat. 468.8313). The course has to cover the eight components of a home that the law lists: structure, electrical system, HVAC system, roof covering, plumbing system, interior components, exterior components and site conditions that affect the structure (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61-30.102). Applicants also send electronic fingerprints for state and FBI background checks. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) issues the licence.

The licence has been mandatory since July 1, 2011. From that date nobody may practise or offer home inspections, or call themselves a "licensed home inspector", "certified home inspector" or plain "home inspector", without complying with the law (Fla. Stat. 468.8319). A grandfather route for people who already held code inspector certifications or a Division I contractor licence closed with applications postmarked by July 1, 2012 (Fla. Stat. 468.8324). An inspector licensed in another state for at least 10 years can be licensed by endorsement (Fla. Stat. 468.8314).

The same section of the law that sets the licence requirement also bars a Florida inspector from repairing a home the inspector or the inspector's company reported on, inspecting a property in which either has a financial interest, paying agents for referrals, or taking a fee that depends on the findings or on the sale closing. A violation is a first-degree misdemeanour.

What does a Florida home inspector licence cost?

A $125.00 application fee, a $100.00 licence fee and a $5.00 unlicensed activity fee, under DBPR's rule (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61-30.102). The exam vendor sets and collects the examination fee. The statute caps what DBPR may charge: no more than $125 for the initial application and examination, plus the actual cost of a purchased exam (Fla. Stat. 468.8312), and no more than $200 each for the initial licence and the biennial renewal (Fla. Stat. 468.8312).

Licences renew every two years, on or before July 31 of even-numbered years, for a $100.00 renewal fee plus the $5.00 unlicensed activity fee (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61-30.401). DBPR may fine an inspector up to $5,000 for each count in a disciplinary case. Grounds include false or misleading advertising and failing to meet the standards of practice (Fla. Stat. 468.832).

What insurance and continuing education does Florida require?

A commercial general liability policy of at least $300,000, unchanged since the law was enacted in 2007 (Fla. Stat. 468.8322). The law requires general liability cover; it does not require errors-and-omissions cover.

For each renewal a licensee needs at least 14 hours of continuing education taken in the 2 years before renewal (Fla. Stat. 468.8316). At least 2 hours of those must be hurricane mitigation training that covers the uniform mitigation verification inspection form, the wind mitigation form insurers use (Fla. Stat. 468.8316).

What must a Florida home inspection cover?

The eight systems in the statute's definition, inspected to DBPR's Standards of Practice, which took effect on October 22, 2013 (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61-30.801). The law defines home inspection services as "a limited visual examination" of readily accessible installed systems and components of a home. The standards consist of a general rule plus one rule each for structure, electrical, HVAC, roof covering, plumbing, interior components, exterior components and site conditions. Where a home has several of the same component, the inspector checks a representative number. A home inspection does not predict future conditions.

After every paid inspection the inspector must give the client a written report. It must name the systems that are significantly deficient or near the end of their service lives, say why if that is not self-evident, and list systems that were present but not inspected, with the reason. The inspector does not have to estimate repair costs. The law sets what the report must say, not its format, so photos and video in a report are the inspector's choice.

Who may sign Florida wind mitigation and 4-point inspection forms?

Florida law names 6 kinds of authorized mitigation inspectors whose signed wind mitigation form insurers must accept: licensed home inspectors with the required training, certified building code inspectors, licensed general, building or residential contractors, professional engineers, architects, and anyone else the insurer recognizes as qualified (Fla. Stat. 627.711). A home inspector qualifies after at least 3 hours of hurricane mitigation training approved by the Construction Industry Licensing Board and a proficiency exam (Fla. Stat. 627.711). That sign-off training is separate from the 2 hours of hurricane mitigation continuing education. The signer must inspect the house personally, and inspectors may not pay insurance agents for referrals.

The form itself, OIR-B1-1802, was revised by the Office of Insurance Regulation. Inspections done on or after April 1, 2026 must use the Rev. 04/26 version, according to a bulletin from Citizens Property Insurance, the state-created insurer (Citizens). Citizens will still accept the older Rev. 01/12 form if it was completed within five years before that date and the structure has not changed (Citizens). Other insurers set their own acceptance rules.

The 4-point inspection is an underwriting form, not a law. Citizens' sample form, version Insp4pt 03 25, covers electrical, HVAC, plumbing and roof. A Florida-licensed inspector must complete, sign and date it, with photos of each side of the house, each roof slope, the water heater including its pressure relief valve, and the main electrical panel with the cover off (Citizens 4-Point Inspection Form). Citizens' sample roof form, version RCF-1 03 25, records roof age and remaining useful life. It may be signed by a contractor, a building code inspector or a Florida-licensed home inspector, with photos of each roof slope (Citizens Roof Inspection Form). The age of home at which Citizens asks for a 4-point inspection is set in its underwriting manual, which sits behind an agent login and was not read for this page.

How does Texas license home inspectors?

In three tiers, through the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC). An apprentice inspector trains under direct supervision, a real estate inspector works under the indirect supervision of a professional inspector, and a professional inspector works alone. To move up to professional inspector, a real estate inspector needs at least 12 months in that tier and 175 inspections under indirect supervision (Tex. Occ. Code 1102.109). A professional inspector may sponsor apprentices and real estate inspectors only after 200 inspections as a professional inspector (Tex. Occ. Code 1102.113).

On the sponsored route, a real estate inspector licence takes 90 hours of qualifying education, at least three months as an apprentice and 25 inspections (22 TAC 535.214). A professional inspector licence takes 134 hours, adding Texas Law and Texas Standards of Practice modules (22 TAC 535.214). Applicants without apprentice experience can take a substitute route: 114 hours of coursework for a real estate inspector licence (22 TAC 535.214) or 154 hours for a professional inspector licence (22 TAC 535.214), plus a Texas Practicum of at least five in-person inspections totalling 40 hours (22 TAC 535.214).

The national part of the Texas exam is the National Home Inspector Examination from the Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors. Of the 32 continuing education hours, 8 are required coursework on law, ethics, standards of practice and report writing.

How do other states' home inspector rules compare?

They vary widely. Required pre-licence education runs from 35 hours in Virginia to 180 hours in New Jersey among the states below, and insurance minimums from Texas's $100,000 per occurrence to New Jersey's $500,000, according to each state's own statute or rule. California has a home inspection law but no licence.

New Jersey, Virginia and Texas all use the National Home Inspector Examination. Massachusetts and Texas license in tiers, with supervised inspections as the step between them. Arizona's credential is a certification rather than a licence, and New York's Article 12-B excludes radon and pest inspections from the definition of a home inspection and limits it to buildings of one to four units.

Does California license home inspectors?

No. California's home inspection chapter, Business and Professions Code sections 7195 to 7199, defines a home inspection and sets a duty of care instead of a licence. Since 1997 an inspector who is not a licensed contractor, pest control operator, architect or engineer must use "the degree of care that a reasonably prudent home inspector would exercise" (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 7196). A suit over a home inspection report must be filed within four years of the inspection (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 7199). The law covers dwellings of one to four units sold or transferred. Since a 2024 amendment, an inspection of a home with a pool or spa must report which of the seven drowning-prevention safety features listed in state health law are present (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 7195).

What does FHA tell buyers about home inspections?

That FHA does not inspect homes and that an appraisal is not a home inspection, in its buyer notice HUD-92564-CN, "For Your Protection: Get a Home Inspection", dated 02/09/2023 (HUD-92564-CN). The form says an inspection "will only occur if you arrange for one", that FHA "does not guarantee the value or condition of your new home", and that FHA cannot lend money for repairs or buy the home back if problems turn up after closing. It tells buyers to ask an inspector for its Standards of Practice or a sample report, and points them to radon testing. The form's OMB approval runs to 04/30/2029 (HUD-92564-CN).

How is a Fannie Mae appraisal different from a home inspection?

A Fannie Mae appraisal rates the home's condition on a scale from C1 to C6 after a visual inspection of accessible areas, and loans on homes rated C6 are not eligible for sale to Fannie Mae (Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-06). The Selling Guide says appraisers are not responsible for hidden or unapparent conditions. If an appraiser is not qualified to judge a needed repair, the appraisal is made "subject to" a satisfactory inspection by a qualified professional. That is an appraisal standard for the lender, not a home inspection for the buyer.

What do the ASHI and InterNACHI Standards of Practice cover?

Each lists ten systems. These are association standards, not law, written by two U.S. home inspector associations that both sell membership and training to inspectors. InterNACHI's standards, last revised in October 2022, run from 3.1 Roof to 3.10 Doors, Windows and Interior, covering 10 systems (InterNACHI). InterNACHI defines a home inspection as "a non-invasive, visual examination of the accessible areas of a residential property". ASHI's Standard of Practice has 14 sections: an introduction, purpose and scope, ten system sections from structural components to fireplaces and fuel-burning appliances, general limitations and exclusions, and a glossary (ASHI). Both say an inspection is not technically exhaustive and does not predict future conditions. State standards, such as Florida's and Texas's, apply where a state has adopted its own.

What do the popular home inspection numbers really say?

Five numbers that home inspection pages repeat trace back to narrower sources than the repeats suggest: an "86% of inspections find a problem" figure that comes from one 2019 survey of buyers' recall by Porch; waiver shares that count waived inspection contingencies among one brokerage's winning offers, not buyers who skipped an inspection; durations and prices that no one timed or priced nationally; a "No. 1 deal killer" ranking drawn from agent surveys; and a video vendor's client tests. Each claim below gives the claim as repeated, where it came from, what the original measured, and what to use instead. Older pages were read in Internet Archive captures.

"86% of home inspections find at least one problem"

The claim as repeated. In August 2019 the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, an agents' trade body, wrote that "more than 80% of home inspections found at least one issue that needed fixing", and that 46% of buyers used the results to negotiate a lower price, crediting porch.com (PA Realtors). Better, an online mortgage lender, says a Porch.com survey of 1,000 homebuyers found that inspection findings saved buyers an average of $14,000 (Better). Neither gives the survey's year or method.

Where it came from. Porch, a home-services marketplace whose group sells software and services to home inspectors, published Home Inspection Leverage in 2019. It surveyed 998 homeowners about their most recent home purchase (Porch, 2019 capture). "Of the respondents who had an inspection performed, 86 percent said their inspector identified at least one problem" (Porch, 2019 capture). Respondents said they saved $14,000 on average on the final price by negotiating on the inspection, without a stated base for the average (Porch, 2019 capture). The live page now returns an error; the first archive capture is from December 2019.

What the original measured. What buyers remembered their own inspector reporting, from purchases of unstated years, with no field dates and no recruitment method published. Porch itself warns of hindsight and telescoping bias. "A problem" includes cosmetic items. Other measures give other shares. The U.S. General Accounting Office's survey of buyers who used FHA-insured mortgages in 2002 found that buyers reported two-thirds of inspections uncovered problems (GAO-04-462). In Angi's survey of people who moved between March 2020 and September 2021, inspectors noted concerns in 93% of the official pre-closing inspections respondents had (Angi, 2025 capture). GAO's report has its own 86 percent, a different statistic: it estimated that 86 percent of FHA-insured buyers in 2002 got an inspection at all (GAO-04-462).

What to use instead. Name the survey, its year and what was counted: "86 percent of 998 surveyed homeowners who had an inspection recalled their inspector finding at least one problem (Porch, 2019)". A share of inspection reports with at least one defect would need a count of reports. Inspection software sellers hold that data, and we found none published.

"X% of buyers waive the inspection"

The claim as repeated. Angi's 2022 article on pandemic movers said that, according to Redfin, "20% of winning buyers declined an inspection in June 2020, a 13% increase from the previous year" (Angi, 2025 capture). A Clever Real Estate blog post updated in April 2026 says that, by Clever's own survey, 13% of recent home buyers "waived their right to an inspection" (Clever). Other pages repeat "one in four buyers waived the inspection".

Where it came from. Redfin, a real estate brokerage, wrote in July 2020 that in June 19.9% of successful offers submitted by Redfin agents in select major U.S. markets waived the inspection contingency (Redfin), against 13.2% in June 2019 (Redfin). Clever's survey of 986 adults who bought a home in 2023 to 2025, fielded from April 28 to May 11, 2025 (Clever), found that 13% waived the inspection contingency as a concession (Clever). The "one in four" comes from Angi's survey, run by DKC Analytics among 1,000 homeowners who moved between March 2020 and September 2021 (Angi, 2025 capture): one in four respondents did not commission an official inspection before moving in, and Angi says 36% of them had one after moving in (Angi, 2025 capture).

What the original measured. Two different things. Redfin and Clever counted waived inspection contingencies: the buyer gives up the right to cancel or renegotiate over the findings, but may still have the home inspected. Redfin's count covers only its own agents' winning offers in some markets. Angi's sample is people who moved, not all buyers. The repeats turned a waived contingency into a skipped inspection, and Redfin's rise from 13.2% to 19.9% into "a 13% increase". The oldest national measure we found is the NAR and ASHI 2001 Home Inspection Study, a telephone poll of 1000 recent buyers in February 2001 commissioned by the agents' and inspectors' associations (NAR and ASHI, 2001): 77% got an inspection before buying (NAR and ASHI, 2001) and 23% bought without one (NAR and ASHI, 2001). GAO estimated that 93 percent of FHA-insured buyers of existing homes got inspections in 2002 (GAO-04-462). Porch's 2019 respondents said nearly 9 in 10 used an inspector (Porch, 2019 capture).

What to use instead. Say whether the figure counts waived contingencies or skipped inspections, whose deals it covers and which month. The monthly share of contracts with a waived inspection contingency from the National Association of Realtors' Realtors Confidence Index, a survey of agents, is in the buyers section of this page.

"A home inspection takes 2 to 3 hours and costs $300 to $500"

The claim as repeated. Clever's April 2026 post says a home inspection "typically takes 2–3 hours" and cites the American Society of Home Inspectors (Clever). Angi's cost guide says an inspection takes around two to four hours (Angi, 2026 capture). Better says an inspection usually costs $500 to $1,000 (Better). The "$300 to $500" range appears on many guide sites with no source.

Where it came from. No timing study. ASHI, the inspectors' association that Clever cites, says a single-family inspection usually takes 2-4 hours, not 2 to 3, and gives no data (ASHI). GAO's 2004 report said an inspection "can take 2 hours or longer", against 30 minutes to an hour on site for an FHA appraisal, in a descriptive table (GAO-04-462). On price, ASHI's 2001 consumer FAQ named no range: the fee "varies geographically, as does the cost of housing" (ASHI, 2001 capture). GAO found that most inspections cost FHA buyers in 2002 less than $400 (GAO-04-462). Porch's 2019 respondents recalled an average of $377 (Porch, 2019 capture), the figure trade news repeated that year.

What the original measured. Recalled prices, seller estimates and one state's survey. Angi, a marketplace that sells leads to inspectors, gives an average of $344 with a range of $296 to $424 (Angi, 2026 capture), from cost data it says come from surveying over 30,000 customers about all kinds of projects (Angi, 2026 capture); it publishes no sample or dates for inspections. Structure Tech, a Minnesota inspection company, prices one benchmark job (a 2,000-square-foot house built in 1990) across the state's inspectors. In fall 2024 it contacted 174 companies and got usable prices from 83 (Structure Tech), with an average of $438 (Structure Tech), up from $339 in its 2012 round (Structure Tech).

What to use instead. A price with its counter, place and year: Structure Tech's Minnesota survey for one state over time, or an inspection software seller's figure with its sample (see the practitioners section). For duration, say that ASHI gives 2 to 4 hours for a single-family home and that no published timing study was found.

"The home inspection is the No. 1 reason deals fall through"

The claim as repeated. A syndicated April 2017 column by Kenneth R. Harney called home inspections "the No. 1 real estate deal killer", behind nearly one third of terminated contracts, citing National Association of Realtors survey research for December 2016 to February 2017 (The Real Deal). The same column said one of every 20 contracts failed.

Where it came from. Agent surveys. The 2017 figure came from NAR's monthly survey of agents. In September 2025 Redfin surveyed its own agents: of 443 agents who had dealt with cancellations in the previous three months, 70.4% said home inspection or repair issues caused deals to fall through (Redfin). Agents could name more than one reason. Redfin estimated separately that 15.1% of homes that went under contract in August 2025 were canceled (Redfin). The NAR and ASHI 2001 study found that 84% of Realtors said they had never had a sellers' contract terminated because of an inspection (NAR and ASHI, 2001).

What the original measured. The share of agents who named inspections as one cause, or the share of failed contracts in an agent survey that ended over inspection findings. Neither is a share of all sales, and inspection findings that end a contract are often the defects the inspection exists to find.

What to use instead. State the base: "of contracts that were terminated" or "of agents who had a cancellation", with the survey and month.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

The claim as repeated. A February 2022 post on InterNACHI's forum, by a staff member of the inspectors' association, told home inspectors that "there are studies that show that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%", naming none (InterNACHI Forum). Beverly Boy Productions, a video production company, tells building inspectors that marketing videos can "boost landing page conversion rates by 80%", beside unsourced 157% and 300% claims (Beverly Boy).

Where it came from. The trail starts with EyeView, which made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product. That compared viewers with non-viewers, who chose for themselves whether to watch (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% figure we found is in a post of February 10, 2009: viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView). In November 2009 a TutorVista manager said the first test on one landing page "boosted conversion by over 80 percent" (EyeView). EyeView's case study gave that one A/B test, with the video autoplaying for first-time visitors, as an 86 percent increase (EyeView).

How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80% (EyeView white paper). It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope. The inspector pages above dropped EyeView too.

What to use instead. Unbounce's own August 2021 look at about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 (Unbounce) found that video had a minimal or negative effect on landing page conversion, whatever the page's goal (Unbounce). Its ten industries did not include home inspection. An inspection company that wants a number for its own site needs its own test: the same page with and without the video, shown to visitors at random.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 735 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about home inspection video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 436 figures from 43 publishers.

On November 4, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections, the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Current Population Survey (bls.gov pages through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API) and the 2022 NAICS Manual; NAR’s monthly REALTORS® Confidence Index reports, Zillow’s Consumer Housing Trends Report (Internet Archive copies) and Redfin’s reports; Florida’s home inspector and wind mitigation statutes and DBPR rules, Citizens Property Insurance’s inspection bulletins and forms, and the Texas, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts, Arizona and California statutes and rules; HUD’s buyer notice and Fannie Mae’s Selling Guide; the Porch Group 10-K filings for fiscal 2021 to 2025 and the franchise disclosure documents of Pillar To Post, HouseMaster, WIN Home Inspection, AmeriSpec, National Property Inspections and HomeTeam in Minnesota’s public CARDS database; Spectora’s industry reports, InterNACHI’s and ASHI’s own pages, EPA’s radon guide, peer-reviewed studies (PubMed abstracts re-read through the National Library of Medicine’s E-utilities), GAO’s 2004 report and the pages behind each popular claim. Our licence counts come from Florida DBPR’s public licensee file and the Texas, New York, Washington, Connecticut and Delaware open licence data, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, our location-page figures from pages we read one at a time, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out HomeAdvisor’s and Zillow’s robots-restricted pages, Palm-Tech’s site (robots rules), Texas’s Secretary of State rule site and Virginia’s law site (robots rules, read through Cornell LII copies instead), Freddie Mac’s guide (login), and Citizens’ underwriting manual (agent login).

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

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Limitations

• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 314 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for ‘home inspection’ and ‘home inspector’ (the top 200 of each) and ‘home inspection tips’ (the top 100, because YouTube’s daily search quota ran out), sorted by views with no country filter, on November 4, 2026. It is not a census of home inspection video, view counts are lifetime snapshots that include views from ads, and we sorted 126 channels by hand from their public text. One anonymous clip channel holds 51.9% of all views, so we give the inspectors’ share with and without it.
• Five brands’ location pages. We read 155 sampled U.S. office pages from AmeriSpec, HouseMaster, Pillar To Post, US Inspect and WIN Home Inspection; within a brand most features come from one template, and service mentions mostly come from site-wide menus, so the shares describe five templates, not the many independent inspectors.
• No federal count of home inspectors alone. BLS’s occupation code 47-4011 counts construction and building inspectors, most of whom work for governments, and the payroll survey leaves out the self-employed. NAICS 541350 counts building inspection businesses, home and commercial; home inspection is the largest product line, not the whole industry.
• Licence counts count paperwork. A licence is not a working inspector: holders may work part time, in another state or not at all, county figures follow the address of record, and each state counts status differently, so state totals are not directly comparable. Licence-year counts include only licences still on file.
• Waiver shares are agents’ reports. NAR’s monthly index asks member agents about their last contract, and it counts waived inspection contingencies, not skipped inspections; a buyer can waive the contingency and still inspect.
• Much of the trade data comes from sellers. Spectora, Porch Group and the franchisors sell to inspectors or into the market, and their figures are their own, from their platforms, self-selected surveys or disclosure documents; associations such as ASHI and InterNACHI sell membership and training. No source we found measured whether video wins home inspection clients.

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1. National Association of REALTORS®, September 2026 REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey (2026-10-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
2. National Association of REALTORS®, June 2022 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2022-07-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
3. National Association of REALTORS®, Conditions Change—Opportunity Remains (2026-02-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
4. National Association of REALTORS®, Buyers Waive Contingencies, Bring More Money to Close (2021-06-24). Accessed 2026-11-04.
5. National Association of REALTORS®, REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY September 2021 (2021-10-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
6. National Association of REALTORS®, REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY November 2021 (2021-12-22). Accessed 2026-11-04.
7. National Association of REALTORS®, Waiving the Home Inspection: Don’t Blame Me! (2022-08-24). Accessed 2026-11-04.
8. National Association of REALTORS®, October 2022 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2022-11-18). Accessed 2026-11-04.
9. National Association of REALTORS®, March 2023 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2023-04-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
10. National Association of REALTORS®, June 2023 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2023-07-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
11. National Association of REALTORS®, June 2024 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2024-07-23). Accessed 2026-11-04.
12. National Association of REALTORS®, July 2024 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2024-08-22). Accessed 2026-11-04.
13. National Association of REALTORS®, November 2024 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2024-12-19). Accessed 2026-11-04.
14. National Association of REALTORS®, January 2025 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2025-02-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
15. National Association of REALTORS®, May 2025 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2025-06-23). Accessed 2026-11-04.
16. National Association of REALTORS®, Buyer-Seller Agreements to Waive Inspections Catch the Attention of State Governments (2025-11-05). Accessed 2026-11-04.
17. National Association of REALTORS®, OCTOBER 2025 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2025-11-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
18. National Association of REALTORS®, DECEMBER 2025 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2026-01-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
19. National Association of REALTORS®, FEBRUARY 2026 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE INDEX SURVEY (2026-03-10). Accessed 2026-11-04.
20. National Association of REALTORS®, August 2026 REALTORS® CONFIDENCE SURVEY (2026-09-10). Accessed 2026-11-04.
21. Redfin, 20% of Winning Home Offers Waived the Inspection Contingency in June, Up From 13% Last Year (2020-07-28). Accessed 2026-11-04.
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23. Zillow Group, Buyers: Results from the Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report 2024 (2024-10-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
24. Redfin, All-Cash Homebuyers Are Four Times More Likely to Win a Bidding War (2022-03-14). Accessed 2026-11-04.
25. National Association of REALTORS®, First-Time Home Buyer Share Falls to Historic Low of 21%, Median Age Rises to 40 (2025-11-04). Accessed 2026-11-04.
26. U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Monthly New Residential Sales, December 2025 (Release Number CB26-29) (2026-02-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
27. Washington State Department of Licensing, Department of Licensing Professional License Counts (data.wa.gov a2n7-rij5) (2026-10-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
28. Washington State Department of Licensing, Department of Licensing Professional License Counts (data.wa.gov a2n7-rij5) (2026-10-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
29. Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), DPOR Biennial Report 2022-24 (RD723) (2024). Accessed 2026-11-04.
30. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
31. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table 1.2 Occupational projections, 2025-35, and worker characteristics, 2025 (2026-08-27). Accessed 2026-11-04.
32. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, Table 11: Employed people by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2025 (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
33. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Construction and Building Inspectors (2026-08-27). Accessed 2026-11-04.
34. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
35. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
36. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
37. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
38. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
39. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
40. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
41. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
42. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
43. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
44. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
45. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (BLS public data API) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
46. U.S. Census Bureau (NAICS Manual, Office of Management and Budget), North American Industry Classification System, United States, 2022 (2022). Accessed 2026-11-04.
47. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW Open Data: 2025 annual averages, industry 541350 (CSV) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
48. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, QCEW Open Data: 2015 annual averages, industry 541350 (CSV) (2016). Accessed 2026-11-04.
49. U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics: 2024 (Census Data API) (2026-03-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
50. U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics: 2019 (Census Data API) (2022). Accessed 2026-11-04.
51. U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns: 2023 (Census Data API) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
52. U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census: 2022, selected statistics (Census Data API, ecnbasic) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
53. U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census: 2022, products by industry (Census Data API, ecnnapcsind) (2024-12-12). Accessed 2026-11-04.
54. U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics: 2024 (Census Data API) (2026-03-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
55. U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns: 2023 (Census Data API) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
56. U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census: 2022, selected statistics (Census Data API, ecnbasic) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
57. U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns: 2023 (Census Data API) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
58. U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics: 2024 (Census Data API) (2026-03-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
59. Porch Group, Inc. (SEC Form 10-K), Porch Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (2026-02-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
60. Porch Group, Inc. (SEC Form 10-K), Porch Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (2022-03-16). Accessed 2026-11-04.
61. Porch Group, Inc. (SEC Form 10-K), Porch Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (2023-03-16). Accessed 2026-11-04.
62. Porch Group, Inc. (SEC Form 10-K), Porch Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 (2024-03-15). Accessed 2026-11-04.
63. Porch Group, Inc. (SEC Form 10-K), Porch Group, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (2025-02-25). Accessed 2026-11-04.
64. Pillar To Post Inc. (franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), Pillar To Post Inc. Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 35577-202603-08 (file 6463), received March 25, 2026 (2026-03-25). Accessed 2026-11-04.
65. Pillar To Post, Inc. (franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), Pillar To Post, Inc. Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 11278-202004-07 (file 3398), received April 3, 2020 (2020-04-03). Accessed 2026-11-04.
66. World Inspection Network International LLC (WIN Home Inspection; franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), World Inspection Network International LLC (WIN Home Inspection) 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 35520-202603-08 (file 9065), received March 18, 2026 (2026-03-18). Accessed 2026-11-04.
67. World Inspection Network International LLC (WIN Home Inspection; franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), World Inspection Network International LLC (WIN Home Inspection) Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 10640-202003-02 (file 9065), received March 12, 2020 (2020-03-12). Accessed 2026-11-04.
68. National Property Inspections, Inc. (franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), National Property Inspections, Inc. 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 36625-202605-06 (file 2212), received May 13, 2026 (2026-05-13). Accessed 2026-11-04.
69. The HomeTeam Inspection Service, Inc. (franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), The HomeTeam Inspection Service, Inc. Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 31001-202404-08 (file 2908), received April 5, 2024 (2024-04-05). Accessed 2026-11-04.
70. HouseMaster SPV LLC (franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), HouseMaster SPV LLC Franchise Disclosure Document (2026 FDD), Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 36181-202604-02 (file 9594), received April 23, 2026 (2026-04-23). Accessed 2026-11-04.
71. TCB AmeriSpec, LLC (AmeriSpec; franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), TCB AmeriSpec, LLC Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 34025-202505-09 (file 11268), received May 14, 2025 (2025-05-14). Accessed 2026-11-04.
72. HM Services, LLC (HouseMaster; franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce), HM Services, LLC (HouseMaster) Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD 5.2019), Clean FDD, Minnesota CARDS document 7405-201905-02 (file 8972), received May 28, 2019 (2019-05-28). Accessed 2026-11-04.
73. Spectora (home inspection software seller), 2026 Industry Report: The State of Home Inspection (2026-03). Accessed 2026-11-04.
74. Spectora (home inspection software seller), What Real Estate Agents Want From Home Inspectors in 2026 (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
75. Spectora (home inspection software seller), 2025 Industry Report: The State of Home Inspection (2025). Accessed 2026-11-04.
76. Inspection Support Network (ISN; home inspection software seller, a Porch Group company), ISN home page (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
77. American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI; association that sells membership and training to inspectors), Study Tracks Home Inspection Business Trends, Profiles Today's Home Inspector (ASHI Reporter) (2005-12-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
78. Thumbtack (services marketplace that sells leads to inspectors), How much does a home inspection cost? (2026-07-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
79. ASHI Reporter (article by InspectorPro Insurance, an insurer that sells to inspectors), Why Inspectors Offer Drone Inspections (2021-05-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
80. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon (EPA 402/K-24/001) (2024-03). Accessed 2026-11-04.
81. Indoor Air (Neri et al., CDC), Measuring public knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to radon to inform cancer control activities and practices (2018-05-14). Accessed 2026-11-04.
82. Indoor Air (Neri et al., CDC), Measuring public knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to radon to inform cancer control activities and practices (2018-05-14). Accessed 2026-11-04.
83. Environmental Health Perspectives (Casey et al., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Predictors of Indoor Radon Concentrations in Pennsylvania, 1989-2013 (2015-04-09). Accessed 2026-11-04.
84. InterNACHI (International Association of Certified Home Inspectors; sells membership, training and marketing to inspectors), InterNACHI Membership Stats (2026-11-04). Accessed 2026-11-04.
85. InterNACHI (International Association of Certified Home Inspectors; sells membership, training and marketing to inspectors), InterNACHI Membership Stats (Internet Archive capture) (2025-08-14). Accessed 2026-11-04.
86. InterNACHI (International Association of Certified Home Inspectors; sells membership, training and marketing to inspectors), InterNACHI home page (2026). Accessed 2026-11-04.
87. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8313, Examinations (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
88. Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (Florida Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 61-30.102, License Requirements (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
89. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8319, Prohibitions; penalties (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
90. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8324, Grandfather clause (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
91. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8314, Licensure (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
92. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8312, Fees (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
93. Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (Florida Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 61-30.401, License Renewal (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
94. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.832, Disciplinary proceedings (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
95. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8322, Insurance (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
96. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 468.8316, Continuing education (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
97. Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (Florida Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 61-30.801, Standards of Practice, General (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
98. The Florida Legislature (Florida Statutes), Florida Statutes 627.711 (2026-01-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
99. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Uniform Mitigation Verification Inspection Form Changes (Personal Lines bulletin, 03.19.26) (2026-03-19). Accessed 2026-11-04.
100. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, 4-Point Inspection Form (sample form Insp4pt 03 25) (2025-03-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
101. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Roof Inspection Form (sample form RCF-1 03 25) (2025-03-20). Accessed 2026-11-04.
102. Texas Legislature (Texas Occupations Code), Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1102, Real Estate Inspectors (Sec. 1102.109) (2025-12-07). Accessed 2026-11-04.
103. Texas Real Estate Commission (Texas Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 22 Tex. Admin. Code § 535.214, Education and Experience Requirements for a License (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
104. Texas Real Estate Commission (Texas Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 22 Tex. Admin. Code § 535.209, Examinations (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
105. Texas Real Estate Commission (Texas Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 22 Tex. Admin. Code § 535.218, Continuing Education Required for Renewal (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
106. Texas Real Estate Commission (Texas Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 22 Tex. Admin. Code § 535.210, Fees (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
107. New York Department of State, Division of Licensing Services (Real Property Law Article 12-B), Home Inspection Professional Licensing (NYS Department of State, Division of Licensing Services, 03.2026) (2026-03-01). Accessed 2026-11-04.
108. New Jersey Home Inspection Advisory Committee (N.J. Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), N.J. Admin. Code § 13:40-15.6, Requirements for initial licensure as a home inspector (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
109. New Jersey Home Inspection Advisory Committee (N.J. Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), N.J. Admin. Code § 13:40-15.8, Insurance requirement (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
110. New Jersey Home Inspection Advisory Committee (N.J. Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), N.J. Admin. Code § 13:40-15.14, Continuing education requirements (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
111. Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (Virginia Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 18 Va. Admin. Code § 15-40-32, Qualifications for licensure (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
112. Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (Virginia Administrative Code, via Cornell LII), 18 Va. Admin. Code § 15-40-50, Fees (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
113. Massachusetts Board of Registration of Home Inspectors (Code of Massachusetts Regulations, via Cornell LII), 266 CMR § 4.01, Educational Training Hours (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
114. Massachusetts Board of Registration of Home Inspectors (Code of Massachusetts Regulations, via Cornell LII), 266 CMR § 4.04, Inspections (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
115. Massachusetts Board of Registration of Home Inspectors (Code of Massachusetts Regulations, via Cornell LII), 266 CMR § 5.01, Continuing Education Requirements (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
116. Arizona State Legislature (Arizona Revised Statutes), Arizona Revised Statutes 32-122.02, Certification of home inspectors; insurance (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
117. California Legislature (Business and Professions Code), California Business and Professions Code, Division 3, Chapter 9.3 Home Inspectors (§ 7196) (2025-09-21). Accessed 2026-11-04.
118. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Administration, HUD-92564-CN, For Your Protection: Get a Home Inspection (2023-02-09). Accessed 2026-11-04.
119. Fannie Mae (Selling Guide), Fannie Mae Selling Guide B4-1.3-06, Property Condition and Quality of Construction of the Improvements (2026-11-04). Accessed 2026-11-04.
120. InterNACHI (International Association of Certified Home Inspectors; trade association that sells membership and training to inspectors), InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
121. American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI; trade association that sells membership and training to inspectors), ASHI Standard of Practice (undated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
122. Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (agents' trade association), Biggest problems found in home inspections (2019-08-06). Accessed 2026-11-04.
123. Better (Better Home & Finance; online mortgage lender), What is a home inspection? The step that can save you thousands (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
124. Porch (Porch.com; home-services marketplace whose group sells inspection software and services to home inspectors), Home Inspection Leverage (2019-07). Accessed 2026-11-04.
125. U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Home Inspections: Many Buyers Benefit from Inspections, but Mandating Their Use Is Questionable (GAO-04-462) (2004-04). Accessed 2026-11-04.
126. Angi (home-services marketplace that sells leads to home inspectors), Packing Up, Moving On Up: Here’s What It Was Like to Change Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022-02-06). Accessed 2026-11-04.
127. Clever Real Estate (agent-referral company), How Long Does a Home Inspection Take, And What Happens Next? (2026-04-06). Accessed 2026-11-04.
128. Clever Real Estate (agent-referral company), American Home Buyer Report: 2025 Edition (2025-06-09). Accessed 2026-11-04.
129. National Association of Realtors and American Society of Home Inspectors (study by Market Enhancement Group), NAR & ASHI 2001 Home Inspection Study, Executive Summary (2001). Accessed 2026-11-04.
130. Angi (home-services marketplace that sells leads to home inspectors), How Much Does a Home Inspection Cost? [2026 Data] (2026-07-09). Accessed 2026-11-04.
131. American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI; inspectors' association that sells membership and training), What is a Home Inspection? (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
132. American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI; inspectors' association that sells membership and training), Frequently Asked Questions on Home Inspections (2001) (2001). Accessed 2026-11-04.
133. Structure Tech (Minnesota home inspection company), How Much Does a Home Inspection Cost in Minnesota? (2026-09-03). Accessed 2026-11-04.
134. The Real Deal (syndicated column by Kenneth R. Harney), Home inspections are the No. 1 real estate deal killer: report (2017-04-28). Accessed 2026-11-04.
135. Redfin (real estate brokerage), Redfin Reports Nearly 60,000 Home Purchases Were Called Off in August (2025-10-07). Accessed 2026-11-04.
136. InterNACHI Forum (post by Alicia Gromicko of InterNACHI, the inspectors' association that sells membership and marketing training), Inspector Website Tip: Video on Your Homepage (2022-02-25). Accessed 2026-11-04.
137. Beverly Boy Productions (video production company), Video Production for Building Inspectors in the US (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-04.
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