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NYS License # 16000113811 · InterNACHI NACHI23052331
NYS License # 16000113811 · InterNACHI NACHI23052331
Areas we serve Inspecwise is a New York State-licensed, InterNACHI-certified home inspector based in South Ozone Park, Queens. We inspect houses, co-ops, condos and two- and three-family buildings in all five boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester, and in other areas on request, in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali. Pick your area for local housing data, the records to pull and the services we offer there. The short answer In every borough of New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester, plus other areas on request. Inspecwise inspects homes in all five New York City boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island), in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and in Westchester County, and in other areas on request. We are based in South Ozone Park, Queens. The State’s Standards of Practice are the same in every one of these areas. What changes is the housing, the records you can pull and the utilities behind the walls, which is what each area page covers. Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, each with its own page. Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island, and Westchester, with town pages where the records justify one. Home inspection, pre-listing, co-op, multi-family and commercial pages under one roof, linked below. English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali, in every area. New York City In the City’s tax-lot file, 637,835 one- to three-family lots have a recorded year of construction, and 51 percent of them were built before 1940. NYC PLUTO 26v2 is the source for every borough figure on this page. A New York City purchase also runs on City records: the Department of Buildings issues the certificate of occupancy, and DOB’s own page says buildings built before 1938 are not required to have one unless later alterations changed use, egress or occupancy, in which case a Letter of No Objection may confirm legal use. The apartment market is its own world: co-ops and condos inspected inside the unit, with the building documented elsewhere. Our New York City page covers the whole City, and the boroughs below each have their own page, a pre-listing page for sellers and a commercial page. 50% of one- to three-family lots built before 1940 Home base: attached rows and detached houses side by side, and the largest count of one- to three-family houses with a recorded year of the five boroughs. Includes: Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing, Bayside, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Hollis, Queens Village, Rosedale, Far Rockaway. 71% of one- to three-family lots built before 1940 A large pre-war stock, where two- and three-family houses are the majority of small houses. Includes: Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie, East New York. 46% of one- to three-family lots built before 1940 Two- and three-family houses alongside larger apartment buildings, and more oil heat than Brooklyn or Queens. Includes: Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Fordham, Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, Morris Park, Co-op City, Mott Haven. 5,599 one- to three-family lots in the whole borough Mostly apartments, so the inspection is of one unit and the building is documented separately. Includes: Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Murray Hill, Tribeca, Financial District. 20% of one- to three-family lots built before 1940 The newest house stock of the five boroughs by this measure, mostly one-family houses. Includes: St. George, Port Richmond, New Dorp, Great Kills, Annadale, Tottenville, Todt Hill. 32 area, service and neighborhood pages under this hub Buying in more than one borough, or a building type that cuts across them? These pages are written for the whole City. New York City · Two- and three-family houses · Co-ops and condos · Commercial buildings Borough shares are from NYC PLUTO 26v2 (one- to three-family tax lots with a recorded year). Other figures are rounded Census estimates (~ means about), State Department of Health radon kit results (not a random sample; small counts move a lot) and OpenFEMA insured flood-claim records counted by named storm: they are not a ranking. Borough by borough The same Standards, five different building stocks. These are the numbers behind each borough, with the page that goes deeper. The City’s tax-lot file lists 270,875 one- to three-family lots with a recorded year, and 50 percent were built before 1940. About 44 percent of the borough’s small houses are two- or three-family. Insured flood-claim records number 14,842, 7,623 of them tied to Hurricane Sandy. Start with our Queens page, and for the neighborhood we live in, South Ozone Park. 190,219 lots with a recorded year, 71 percent built before 1940, and 68 percent two- or three-family. Only about 7 percent of occupied homes burn oil; about 72 percent use utility gas. Original wiring, piping and the certificate of occupancy of a multi-family house are the usual questions: Brooklyn page, pre-war homes. 61,967 lots with a recorded year, 46 percent built before 1940, and 65 percent two- or three-family. About 21 percent of occupied homes heat with oil, more than in Brooklyn or Queens, so boilers and tanks matter. The Bronx page has the local records and the heating guide the system questions. Only 5,599 one- to three-family lots, so a Manhattan purchase is usually an apartment: about 95 percent of units are in buildings of five or more units. The inspection covers the unit, and the building is documented separately. The State’s radon kits found 12.2% of 131 basements at or above 4 pCi/L, a small sample. See co-ops and condos in Manhattan and the Manhattan page. 109,175 lots with a recorded year, only 20 percent built before 1940, and mostly one-family houses. About 85 percent of occupied homes use utility gas and 4 percent oil. Insured flood-claim records number 19,370, 4,094 tied to Sandy: roofs, grading and water are the questions. Staten Island page, roofs. A buyer comparing boroughs should compare building types, not only prices: a brick two-family in Brooklyn, a co-op in Manhattan and a detached house on Staten Island raise different questions. Our New York City page compares them, and the certificate of occupancy guide applies in every borough. Long Island Long Island’s houses are newer and more often oil-heated than the City’s. The Census Bureau’s estimated median year built is 1955 in Nassau and 1970 in Suffolk, about 47 percent of Nassau’s housing units date from 1940 to 1959, and about 44 percent of Suffolk’s occupied homes heat with fuel oil. Insured flood-claim records tell their own story: 51,523 in Nassau and 33,936 in Suffolk, most of them tied to Hurricane Sandy (26,964 and 13,168). Outside New York City, the certificate of occupancy comes from the town, village or city building department: the State’s Uniform Code has each local code-enforcement authority issue a certificate of occupancy or certificate of compliance for permitted work and for conversions from one use to another. Ask for it by address, and ask the same office about permits. Homes not on public sewer or water raise their own questions: the Standards exclude wells, septic systems and cesspools from the inspection, so a specialist tests them. Our add-on tests guide says which ones. 1955 median year built (Census estimate) Mostly post-war housing, with gas the main heating fuel and oil in about one home in four. The Levittown and Hicksville page covers what the records say about its houses. Includes: Great Neck, Port Washington, Garden City, Mineola, Westbury, Hicksville, Levittown, Massapequa, Freeport, Valley Stream, Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Long Beach. Nassau County · Levittown and Hicksville · Pre-listing · Commercial 44% of occupied homes heated with fuel oil Newer housing than every borough except Staten Island, and the highest oil-heat share of the eight areas here. Some homes are not on public sewer or water, which the Standards leave outside an inspection. Includes: Huntington, Northport, Commack, Smithtown, Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, Patchogue, Ronkonkoma, Riverhead, Southampton. 2 counties, one island The island-wide page covers what Nassau and Suffolk have in common: older oil systems, post-war houses, basements and the records you ask a town for. Westchester Westchester sits between the City and Long Island in age: about 28 percent of its housing units were built before 1940, more than in Nassau (19 percent) or Suffolk (9 percent), and about 28 percent of occupied homes heat with oil against 52 percent with utility gas. The State Department of Health’s radon kit results are the largest sample of the eight areas here: 2,875 basements tested, 17.5% at or above the 4 pCi/L action level. Flood claims look different too: of 12,259 insured claim records, 1,729 are tied to Hurricane Ida and 438 to Sandy, the reverse of Long Island. Parts of the county are not on public sewer or water, so the same specialist questions apply as on Long Island, and Westchester County has its own private-well testing rule tied to the sale contract: confirm the current text with the county health department and ask your attorney how it applies. 28% of housing units built before 1940 Older housing than Nassau or Suffolk, oil heat in about a quarter of homes, and well and septic questions in parts of the county. Includes: White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Pelham, Bronxville, Tarrytown, Ossining, Peekskill. 2,875 basements in the State’s radon kit data The county seat: older houses, co-ops and condos, and a downtown with its own records. Our White Plains page uses the local data. 1,729 flood-claim records tied to Hurricane Ida Pre-war colonials and a flood history that leans toward Ida. The page covers the records to pull in both cities. Westchester figures: Census Bureau estimates (rounded), State Department of Health radon kit results, and OpenFEMA insured flood-claim records counted by named storm. Compare The same eight measures for every area we serve. They are public figures about the housing and the weather record, not about our work, and they explain why one inspection asks different questions from the next. Housing figures: American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates (all housing units for age and building size, occupied homes for fuel); rounded, with margins of error; ~ means about. Radon: State Department of Health kit results, cumulative to November 2025, not a random sample, so do not rank the rows. Flood claims: OpenFEMA insured claim records, not dollars or houses. Why it matters The inspection standard is the same everywhere in the state. These six things are not. In the five boroughs it is the City: the Department of Buildings for certificates of occupancy and permits. On Long Island and in Westchester it is the town, village or city building department. Our guide to certificates of occupancy and permits shows what to ask for. Oil heat runs from about 4 percent of occupied homes on Staten Island and 7 percent in Brooklyn to about 44 percent in Suffolk. A tank, its piping and the flue are part of the purchase wherever oil is common: heating systems, oil tanks. Public sewer and water cover most of the City. Outside it, some homes use septic systems, cesspools or private wells, which the Standards exclude from the inspection. See add-on tests and sewer scopes. Insured flood-claim records run from 1,427 in Manhattan to 51,523 in Nassau, and their storms differ: Sandy dominates Long Island and Queens, Ida stands out in Westchester. A flood zone and actual flooding are different things: flood zones explained. Manhattan buyers mostly buy apartments (about 95 percent of units are in buildings of five or more units); Suffolk buyers mostly buy detached houses. Co-ops and two- and three-family houses each have their own checklist. The State’s kit results show basements at or above the action level in every area, from 3.7% of Queens tests to 17.5% of Westchester’s. Radon is not part of a home inspection by statute, so test separately: radon levels by county. Closer look These are not findings: they are the places where the public numbers say a buyer should ask more questions, with the guide that explains each. Before you buy or sell Legal use and permits are a records question, not something an inspector can settle on site. Where to look depends on the area. An inspector may not determine code compliance or report code violations, so none of these answers comes from the inspection report. Ask your attorney how a record affects your contract. The directory 32 pages, one table. Where a cell says “Ask us”, we take the job but do not yet have a page: call 718-925-7071. Coverage These names show where each of our home inspection service areas reaches. They are examples, not a complete list: if your address is inside one of the eight areas, we cover it, and if it is outside, call us. Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Flushing, Bayside, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Hollis, Queens Village, Rosedale, Far Rockaway. Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie, East New York. Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Fordham, Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, Morris Park, Co-op City, Mott Haven. Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Murray Hill, Tribeca, Financial District. St. George, Port Richmond, New Dorp, Great Kills, Annadale, Tottenville, Todt Hill. Great Neck, Port Washington, Garden City, Mineola, Westbury, Hicksville, Levittown, Massapequa, Freeport, Valley Stream, Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Long Beach. Huntington, Northport, Commack, Smithtown, Babylon, Bay Shore, Islip, Patchogue, Ronkonkoma, Riverhead, Southampton. White Plains, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Pelham, Bronxville, Tarrytown, Ossining, Peekskill. Booking Three steps, the same in every one of our home inspection service areas. Call or book online with the address, the kind of building, the number of apartments and your contract’s inspection deadline. We will say what a visit covers and which add-on tests suit the house. New York requires a written agreement stating the scope and cost before the inspection. Ask for the full fee in writing, and for anything that depends on the location. The written report is due within five business days after the inspection. We work in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali: tell us which you prefer. Questions 15 answers about where we work and what changes from place to place. All five New York City boroughs (Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island), Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and Westchester County, plus other areas on request. Other areas on request. Call 718-925-7071 with the address and your inspection deadline and we will say whether we can take it. The fee depends on the property and the services you ask for, and New York requires the pre-inspection agreement to state the scope and cost before the inspection. Ask for the full fee in writing, including anything that depends on where the house is. The Standards of Practice are the same statewide. What differs is the housing (age, building type, heating fuel), the records (the City’s Department of Buildings versus a town or village building department) and the utilities (public sewer and water versus septic systems and wells). The process and the scope do not change. All of Queens, including our home base in South Ozone Park, and Astoria, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Jamaica and the rest of the borough. See our Queens page and South Ozone Park. Yes. Call us with the building address and we will say what a visit can cover: the apartment and what can be seen of the shared areas around it. See co-ops in Queens and Brooklyn and co-ops and condos in Manhattan. We have commercial pages for New York City and each borough, Nassau and Suffolk. Our license is a home inspector license, so a commercial visit is a visual walk-through and not engineering. For Westchester, call us. Among the boroughs with many houses, Brooklyn: about 71 percent of its one- to three-family lots were built before 1940, against 50 percent in Queens and 20 percent on Staten Island. Outside the City, about 28 percent of Westchester’s housing units predate 1940, against 19 percent in Nassau and 9 percent in Suffolk. In Suffolk, where about 44 percent of occupied homes burn fuel oil, then Westchester (about 28 percent) and Nassau (about 26 percent). In Brooklyn it is about 7 percent and on Staten Island about 4 percent. See heating systems. In the five boroughs, in DOB NOW at the Department of Buildings; outside the City, at the town, village or city building department. Our guide to certificates of occupancy and permits walks through it. We inspect the visible parts of the house. The Standards exclude septic systems, cesspools and wells, so a septic professional or a water laboratory does that work; we will say which the house needs. See add-on tests. Yes. The report covers land grade and drainage at the foundation and visible signs of water penetration. Whether the house is in a mapped flood zone is a map question, not an inspection finding: see flood zones in NYC and on Long Island. English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali, in every area. Tell us which you prefer when you call or book. Call 718-925-7071. The place names above are examples. If your address is inside one of the eight areas it is covered, and for anywhere else we will tell you whether we can take it. Your area, your inspector Tell us the address and what you know about the building. We will say what a visit covers, what it cannot, and which add-on tests are worth asking about. NYS License # 16000113811 · InterNACHI NACHI23052331 · English · اردو · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · हिन्दी · বাংলাHome Inspection Service Areas in New York: NYC, Long Island & Westchester
Where does Inspecwise inspect homes?
5 boroughs
3 counties
32 area pages
5 languages
Home inspector in New York City: Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island
Queens
Brooklyn
The Bronx
Manhattan
Staten Island
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What to expect from a home inspection in each borough
Queens
Brooklyn
The Bronx
Manhattan
Staten Island
Across the City
Home inspector on Long Island: Nassau and Suffolk counties
Nassau County
Suffolk County
Long Island overview
Home inspector in Westchester County
Westchester County
White Plains
Yonkers and New Rochelle
Home inspection service areas at a glance
Area Median year built Built before 1940 Heated with oil Heated with gas In 5+ unit buildings Basements at or above 4 pCi/L Flood-claim records of them Sandy Queens 1953 ~30% ~10% ~74% ~42% 3.7% of 598 14,842 7,623 Brooklyn 1944 ~47% ~7% ~72% ~55% 10.2% of 528 6,286 3,555 The Bronx 1955 ~33% ~21% ~52% ~72% 7.9% of 101 1,939 537 Manhattan 1951 ~43% ~15% ~49% ~95% 12.2% of 131 1,427 661 Staten Island 1974 ~18% ~4% ~85% ~13% 6.3% of 253 19,370 4,094 Nassau County 1955 ~19% ~26% ~62% ~13% 5.7% of 837 51,523 26,964 Suffolk County 1970 ~9% ~44% ~41% ~8% 7.6% of 580 33,936 13,168 Westchester County 1959 ~28% ~28% ~52% ~35% 17.5% of 2,875 12,259 438 What changes from one service area to the next
Who holds the records
What heats the house
Water in and out
The flood record
What gets bought
Radon and basements
What an inspection looks at most closely in each service area
Area Gets a closer look Why (public data) Read Queens Two-family houses and basements About 44% of small houses are two- or three-family; 14,842 insured flood-claim records Two- and three-family · Basement water Brooklyn Original wiring, piping and legal use 71% of small houses built before 1940; 68% two- or three-family Old wiring · Old pipes The Bronx Boilers, oil and multi-family layouts ~21% of occupied homes heat with oil; 65% two- or three-family Heating · Oil tanks Manhattan The building, not only the unit ~95% of units are in buildings of five or more units Co-ops and condos Staten Island Roofs, grading and water Mostly one-family houses; 19,370 insured flood-claim records Roofs · Flood zones Nassau County Oil tanks and post-war basements ~26% oil heat; ~47% of units built 1940 to 1959; 51,523 flood-claim records Oil tanks · Basement water Suffolk County Oil, septic systems and private wells ~44% oil heat; the Standards exclude wells, septic systems and cesspools Add-on tests · Well water Westchester County Radon, older houses and wells 17.5% of 2,875 basements at or above 4 pCi/L; ~28% of units built before 1940 Radon by county · Older houses Records to pull in each service area
Area Certificate of occupancy Permits and violations Read this The five boroughs Department of Buildings. For COs requested on or after March 1, 2021, search the address in DOB NOW; buildings built before 1938 may have none, and a Letter of No Objection may confirm legal use. The Department of Buildings records, and for housing violations the City’s housing agency. Our guide lists the portals. Certificates of occupancy and permits Nassau and Suffolk The town, village or city building department. The Uniform Code has each local code-enforcement authority issue the certificate of occupancy or certificate of compliance. Ask the same building department for permits and open violations, by address. Nassau · Suffolk Westchester The city, town or village building department that covers the address. Ask the same department for permits and open violations, by address; confirm the county well-testing rule if the house has a private well. Westchester Co-ops and condos everywhere The building holds the certificate; ask the managing agent, and read the offering plan and recent minutes. Facade and other City filings apply to buildings of more than six stories in the City. Co-op guide Find the page for your area and service
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