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Pre-listing home inspectors
An inspection the seller orders before listing, so repairs or disclosures happen on the seller's schedule. Home inspectors aren't licensed in Ontario while the Home Inspection Act, 2017 is not in force.
Page reviewed 30 Oct 2026.
When people need them
- Getting ready to sell
Records that matter to the work2
- Thinking about it
- Getting ready to sell
- Searching and financing
- The offer and its conditions
- Closing and moving
- The first 90 days
- Making it yours
- Adding a unit or renting it out
- Living there
The records that matter to this work
- What building permits are on record for the home?Permits and renovations
- Is the home in a basement flooding study area, and what kind of sewer serves the street?Basement flooding and sewers
An OfferDue report reads these for one address, with the source and date of every line.
Licences and registers to check
Ontario has no licence or public register for this work that we know of. People commonly ask for references, proof of liability insurance and, where the business has workers, a WSIB clearance.
Questions people ask before hiring
- What does the report cover, and what does it leave out?
- Which certification do you hold, and where can it be checked?
- When does the written report arrive?
- Is the report addressed to me, and may I share it?
Looking for pre-listing home inspectors?
Tell us what you need in a few lines and we reply by email. Businesses are only starting to be listed, so a request comes to us, not to any business.
Pre-listing home inspectors listed on OfferDue
No businesses are listed here yet. Listing is open.
- The towns you serve
- Languages
- What you specialise in
Your website
FreeIn the order checkedNever paid for
Each town's home team, with the local rules the work runs into, is on Who helps, town by town.
Listing on OfferDue is free and in the order businesses were checked, never paid for. Where a licence or register exists we check it before a listing shows. Get listed free: what a listing shows and what we check.
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Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. A listing on OfferDue is not a recommendation; check licences and references yourself. Who does what in an Ontario offer.