InterNACHI opens its first chapter in India.

www.nachi.org/internachi-partners-homeinspektor-ppms-india.htm

Great for NACHI , Congratulations Nick

Is “cardboard shanty inspection certification” available yet?

I hope your not planning on offshoring home inspections like they did to me in my last career of IT! Ha-ha

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ex-google-sap-executives-launch-home-inspection-services-1427452

The services are the first of its kind in India, though prevalent in the US and some other countries.
**Bengaluru: ** Two former Google and SAP executives have joined hands to launch Home Inspection services in India and plan to expand the platform to North America, the UK, Singapore and the Middle-East.

Phi Property Management Services (PPMS), that performs independent third party end-to end pre-delivery checks - inspection services in the Real Estate domain - has launched operations under the brand name “HomeInspeKtoR” in Bengaluru with plans for other cities to follow.
“Home Inspection service is a limited, non-invasive examination of the condition of a home/apartment/villa in connection with the sale/renting of that property,” company’s Chairman and COO Mr. BR Nagaraj said.

As a first step, PPMS has partnered InterNACHI (the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors) in setting up the India Chapter, he said.

InterNACHI is the world’s largest trade association for property inspectors based in the US.

The India Chapter would provide local home inspectors access to all of InterNACHI’s offerings and a network of support, tailored specially for India, including education, training and certification, Mr. Nagaraj told PTI.

“Even though home sales in India are comparable to those in the US in terms of volumes, Home Inspection as a practise is hitherto not followed which is where we come in,” said Mr. Sudhi, CEO, PPMS.

The services are the first of its kind in India, though prevalent in the US and some other countries, Mr. Nagaraj said.

The company has been formed by Mr. Nagaraj who was previously Director-Real Estate and Workplace Services at Google and Mr. Ramakrishna Yarlapati, former Senior VP, SAP AG and an entrepreneur.

Mr. Nagaraj said the company’s qualified home inspectors would use an in-house developed mobile app to carry out inspections wherein they verify 100 plus robust parameters with a comprehensive checklist, using tools such as thermal cameras, moisture meters and infrared detectors.

The company has raised an undisclosed sum in funding that would be deployed to expand to more cities, set up franchisees as well as global real estate markets, he said.

He said the US operations would be launched in about two months.
“We plan to grow eventually in the US, Middle-East, Singapore and Canada,” he said.

Within the country, the company was in talks with large builders in north India, Bengaluru and Chennai.

The service charges would be well within the reach of middle class home buyers. For example, if a flat were to cost Rs. 50 lakhs, the charge would be about Rs. 10,000, Mr. Nagaraj said.

InterNACHI is growing all over the world.