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Plumbing Inspection in New York

Across the 364 New York towns we route calls in, 15% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later. Every one of those sales came with an inspection, and every one of those inspections excluded the same list of things.

The one-paragraph answer

In New York, 15% of owner households across the 364 covered towns arrived in 2018 or later. The exclusions are the part worth reading: a home inspection covers what can be seen and operated, and a buried lateral is neither.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.

PresalePipe is a referral service, not a contractor or a home inspector. We connect homeowners and buyers with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no inspections and no work, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Turnover across New York

Towns in New YorkCount
Change hands often (28% of owners or more since 2018)7
About the middle (16–28%)142
Rarely change hands (under 16%)215

The spread inside the state is the point. Purdys is highest at 55% of owners having arrived since 2018; Glenwood Landing is lowest at 0%. A state figure describes neither of them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038, 2023 release. Weighted across 4,931,235 occupied housing units, of which 2,289,231 are owner-occupied. This measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock, not sales per year.

The largest towns we route in New York

TownOwners who moved in since 2018Occupied homes
Brooklyn14%1,009,555
New York19%755,085
Bronx15%531,571
Staten Island14%170,047
Syracuse16%93,451
Jamaica15%80,323
Flushing14%79,851
Yonkers15%71,722

What is excluded, everywhere

The exclusions do not vary by state. Both InterNACHI and ASHI describe the inspection as covering readily accessible, visually observable systems and state that it is not technically exhaustive. Both exclude wells and pumps, septic and wastewater treatment, water quality and potability, fire sprinklers and gas leak testing. InterNACHI additionally names water flow and pressure, floor drains, shower pan testing and polybutylene piping.

What varies by town is how many people here have recently had a report in their hands to read the exclusions in. The full list is on its own page.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

Checking a plumber in New York

Checking a credential in New York

New York issues no state plumbing license. New York City licenses Master and Journeyman Plumbers through the Department of Buildings; elsewhere in the state it is your own city, town or county. Start here. Ask the contractor which municipality licenses them and confirm it with that office before work begins.

Towns we route in New York

Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Inspections are the theme here; calls of every kind are routed.

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