Home inspector in
Doral, FL
Doral is one of Miami-Dade's youngest housing markets — most of the inventory was built between 2002 and today. Newer construction sounds easier to inspect, and in some ways it is, but new homes have their own pattern of issues: builder shortcuts, code-minimum trade work, HVAC oversizing/undersizing, and warranty windows that expire on aggressive timelines.
What we see in
Doral inspections.
Doral exploded as a residential market post-2005 — CC Homes, Lennar, Toll Brothers, GL Homes, Codina, and dozens of smaller builders carved up what used to be golf-course land into tracts of single-family, townhome, and gated communities. The result: a city whose housing stock is mostly under 20 years old, built to modern Florida Building Code, with hip roofs, impact glass, and hurricane straps as standard. On paper, these homes inspect well. In practice, new construction has its own pattern of issues — and 11-month warranty inspections are where buyers recover thousands in builder remediation.
What we see most: HVAC issues (oversized AC units cycling too short to dehumidify properly — a real problem in Doral's humid summers), stucco hairline cracks at corners and around openings (cosmetic vs. structural distinction matters), improper grading directing rain toward foundations on entry-level builds, tile-floor lippage and grout failures, and poor exhaust ducting in attics. We thermal-image every Doral inspection — new construction defects often hide behind freshly painted walls and only show as temperature differentials.
Every
community.
From Downtown Doral high-rises to the gated golf communities. Same flat-rate inspection across all of Doral.