Who reads your home
Homechecker is an independent desktop read of a home: what the building is, what it will likely need, and what is worth checking — before you buy it, and for as long as you own it. We sell no inspections, no repairs and no listings. Just the read.
The read
Every home tells its story before you ever lift a manhole: its era, its construction, its documents, and the public signals around its address. A Homechecker read works from that evidence to give you what the sale process is not built to volunteer — an independent picture of the building’s likely repair exposure, the questions worth asking, and where an inspection should spend its time. It does not replace a physical inspection; it makes one land harder, and it is cheap enough to run before you are committed.
The method
A read looks at a home the way a professional does: the shell (structure, roof, walls, footings), the systems (wiring, plumbing, waterproofing, the parts with working lives), and the space (how it is arranged and what changing it would run into). Against each, the era and construction type set expectations — a great deal of what a building will ask of you was decided the year it was built — and the evidence for this specific home confirms, sharpens or overturns them. The same method sits behind every guide on this site.
Independence, on purpose
Most information a buyer receives comes from someone paid by the sale going through. Homechecker’s only customer is you: we do not perform inspections, sell repairs, take referral fees or list property, so the read has nothing to gain from what it finds. That is the entire reason it exists — the same reason you engage your own inspector rather than the agent’s.
Who is behind it
Homechecker is built by Moyne Ross, a Melbourne built-asset practice whose day job is reading buildings for the people who own and fund them. The consumer read exists because the same discipline — evidence first, era-aware, independent — is worth just as much on the biggest purchase most people ever make. The practice and its founder’s credentials live where they belong, over here.
The guides
The guides are the method, given away: what inspections cost, how to read a crack, what a Section 32 hides, what each era of Australian housing tends to need. They are free because a better-informed buyer makes better use of the read — and because most of this should never have been hard to find out.