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New Construction – Is a Home Inspection Really Necessary?

When buying a new home in Massachusetts you need to be aware that, just because a home is new, it is not necessarily fault free.   
Not only can you greatly benefit from an inspection on your newly constructed home but it is something that you should insist on.  All new construction should be inspected to ensure that your home is being built with the quality that you are expecting it to be.  
Builders will often point to the fact that the town will be requiring a number of inspections at different stages of the construction process and certainly prior to an issue of a certificate of occupancy.  They may also cite these inspections as reasons why an independent inspection is unnecessary.  
While it is true that town inspections will be done, these inspectors focus primarily on code violations - not the quality of the contractor's work.  A professional home inspector will scrutinize the workmanship that is going into the construction and will uncover potential defects in the process. 
A relocation client of mine who was having a new home constructed initially disagreed with my advice to have an inspection done several weeks prior to the closing.  I finally won out ... more

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