What The Experts Say

What the experts say

Buyers’ advocates, real estate agents, property journalists and consumer affairs lawyers agree: you’d be crazy to buy a property without commissioning a building inspection first.

“The best money that people can spend is on a building inspection. People stretch themselves to buy the property they want and sometimes find they then need to spend another $60,000 fixing it.”
– Leonard Teplin, Collins Simms Real Estate, Clifton Hill.
(From “Agent’s tip”, Sunday Herald Sun, March 18 2008)

“It’s a very sensible idea to do your due diligence and have the property inspected by a qualified person prior to purchase. The inspections do cost a couple of hundred dollars but as you are spending a couple of hundred thousand on the home it will be money well spent.”
– John Grabyn, president, Real Estate Institute of Victoria.
(From “What they say”, Herald Sun, November 28, 2009)

“A building inspection can identify cosmetic improvements covering up faults not picked up by the untrained eye.”
– Dr Claire Noone, director, Consumer Affairs Victoria.
(From “What they say”, Herald Sun, November 28, 2009)