What Drives the Cost of a Home Inspection in Arizona

How much does a home inspection cost in Arizona? On this site you can answer that yourself, before you speak to anybody. Good Faith Inspection Co. publishes the full rate card on the pricing page, and the number is set by things you already know about the property.

What Sets the Price

Three things. How big the property is, what type of property it is, and which add-on services you want. The pricing page says it in one line: the inspection is priced by the size of the property and the services you add.

Square Footage Sets the Base Price

A larger home takes longer to inspect. There is more roof, more plumbing, more electrical and more floor to walk. So the base price moves in bands by square footage. Here is the residential card as published:

• Less than 1,000 sq ft - 400 dollars
• 1,000 to 1,500 sq ft - 425 dollars
• 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft - 450 dollars
• 2,000 to 2,500 sq ft - 475 dollars
• 2,500 to 3,000 sq ft - 500 dollars
• 3,000 to 3,500 sq ft - 550 dollars
• 3,500 to 4,000 sq ft - 600 dollars
• 4,000 to 4,500 sq ft - 650 dollars
• 4,500 to 5,000 sq ft - 700 dollars

The steps are not all the same size. Up to 3,000 sq ft, each band adds 25 dollars to the one below it. From 3,000 sq ft up, each band adds 50 dollars. The published residential table stops at the 4,500 to 5,000 sq ft band, so a home larger than 5,000 square feet is quoted over the phone instead.

Property Type Decides Which Card You Are On

A condo is priced from a separate, lower table, because the job is a smaller one. In an attached unit the association usually maintains the roof, the exterior walls and the grounds, so a condo inspection covers the interior systems and components you own.

• Less than 1,000 sq ft - 300 dollars
• 1,000 to 1,500 sq ft - 325 dollars
• 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft - 350 dollars
• 2,000 sq ft and up - 400 dollars and up

Set the two cards side by side and the condo rate is 100 dollars lower in each band where both are listed: 300 against 400 under 1,000 sq ft, 325 against 425 from 1,000 to 1,500, and 350 against 450 from 1,500 to 2,000. Townhomes are less tidy, because ownership varies and some include the roof and the lot. Send us the address and what you know about the ownership, and we will tell you which inspection fits.

Selling rather than buying does not move you to a different card. A pre-listing inspection is the same full inspection at the same published square-footage price. Multi-family properties, from a duplex up through ten units and more, have no line on the rate card and are quoted by phone.

Add-Ons Are Priced Separately, and Each One Is Listed

Anything beyond the standard inspection has its own published price. Nothing is bundled invisibly into the base number.

• Sewer scope added to an inspection - 200 dollars
• Sewer scope on its own - 300 dollars
• Pool - 50 dollars
• Spa - 50 dollars
• Pool and spa combination - 75 dollars
• ADU or attached casita - 75 dollars
• DADU or detached casita - 150 dollars
• Detached structures - 50 dollars and up
• Termite inspection, carried out by our partner termite company - see the pricing page

One of those lines does more work than the rest. A sewer scope is 300 dollars booked on its own and 200 dollars added to a home inspection, a 100 dollar difference for the same camera, the same line and one visit. Which items sit on this list and which are covered by the base price is the subject of our guide to what is included as standard.

Why the Number Is Knowable Before You Book

The instant quote on the pricing page runs on the same rate card we bill from, so the figure it returns is the figure you pay, as long as the property matches what you entered. If something at the property turns out to be different from what was entered, you hear that before we start rather than after. Published pricing covers our service area, and if a property sits far enough out that travel changes things, we will say so before you book.

Read the tables above as published rates for a property of that size and type, not as a quote on your particular house. The quote for your address comes from the form on the pricing page or from a phone call, and it is built from these same numbers.

Our job is to help you understand what you are buying. Your job is to decide if what you're buying is what you were hoping for.