NNational Home Register

Independent home certification · Now serving South Florida

Know your homebefore a buyer does.

Inspected against a published standard, backed by a warranty that transfers to the buyer, certified by someone who earns nothing from the sale.

Free · four minutes · nothing booked·Buying? Browse certified homes·Not selling? Claim your Home File

8 systems · 44 checkpointsPermit history pulledPublic-records search12-month transferable warranty
NATIONAL HOME REGISTERISSUED · 2026NHRGOLD

NHR Certified

NHR Gold

Every major system has ten or more years remaining.

Service life remaining

Roof14 yrs
Electrical25 yrs
Plumbing18 yrs
HVAC11 yrs
StructurePASS
Water intrusionPASS
Life safetyPASS
InsurabilityPASS
Permit history · records searchINCLUDED
12-month warranty · transfers at closing

1 in 6

pending home sales now falls through — hundreds of thousands of collapsed contracts a year.

The failure rate hit an all-time record in late 2025 (16.3%, per Redfin), and deals die late — after the inspection, when the buyer holds every card. Everyone competes on finding the buyer. Nobody competes on the deal not dying.

The seal

Three tiers, one floor

Tiers measure the service life left in what a buyer inherits. The weakest system sets the tier — never the average.

NATIONAL HOME REGISTERISSUED · 2026NHRGOLD

NHR Gold

Every major system has 10+ years of expected life remaining.

NATIONAL HOME REGISTERISSUED · 2026NHRSILVER

NHR Silver

Safe and functional, with some systems in the 5–10 year range.

NATIONAL HOME REGISTERISSUED · 2026NHRCERTIFIED

NHR Certified

Safe and functional, with a major system near the end of its service life.

Below the floor there is no tier at all — one active hazard means no seal until it is cleared and re-inspected. A seal everybody gets is worth nothing to the buyer it is meant to reassure.

8

Certified systems

44

Inspected checkpoints

13

Published blocking conditions

16

Priced remedies

The process

How it works

  1. 1

    Tell us about the house

    Four minutes. The tier it would earn forms as you answer — before anyone visits, before you owe anything.

  2. 2

    One inspection, one standard

    A licensed inspector works the published National Home Register: eight systems, plus your state's specific hazards.

  3. 3

    A seal, or the path to one

    Clear the bar and your certificate publishes. Fall short and the priced route to it arrives the same day.

  4. 4

    Fix now, pay at closing

    Licensed trades at pre-agreed rates. Nothing upfront, and nothing owed if the home never sells.

What you get

Two questions, both answered before you list

Is the house sound?

Eight systems inspected against the standard, each rated for the years left in it. Flooring, finishes, kitchens and baths are graded too — published for the buyer, never held against you. Wear is not a defect.

Can the sale actually close?

A public-records search for open permits, code liens and unpaid municipal balances. An open permit found in February is a phone call. The same permit five days before closing is a dead contract.

Why trust it

Every other “certified” home programme is run by the brokerage selling the house.

No cut of any repair

Contractors pay a flat network fee that never moves with the size of the job. Nobody here earns more when your home needs more.

Inspectors paid the same either way

Pass or fail the fee is identical, and the inspector holds no interest in the trades who quote from their findings.

The bar is published in full

13 blocking conditions and 16 priced remedies are on this site before you book. You can check our work.

A certified pre-owned car is certified by the manufacturer, not by the dealer trying to sell it. This is that, for houses.

For listing agents

We never list homes. You keep the client.

The moment we listed a house, the seal would be worth less. You keep the listing and the commission — we hand you a home that has already survived the inspection that kills deals.

  • Costs you and your seller nothing until closing.
  • Fewer renegotiations, far fewer contracts dying at day sixty.
  • The certificate attaches to the MLS listing; buyers verify the seal themselves.

Find out what your home would earn

Four minutes, no charge, nothing booked. Certification itself is paid at closing — never upfront.

Check your home

Common questions

What does it cost to certify a home?+

A flat fee by home size — $1,495 up to 2,500 sq ft, up to $2,895 for the largest homes — collected at closing from proceeds, with nothing due today. It includes the full inspection, the licensed termite (WDO) inspection, wind-mitigation and 4-point insurance documentation, the records and permit compliance search, certificate publication, and a 12-month warranty that transfers to the buyer. Every price is published on the Standard page before you book.

What happens if my home doesn't pass?+

You get a priced repair plan the same day, generated from our published price book — never a surprise quote. Fix the items with our vetted network or any licensed contractor of your own, upload the proof, and re-verification starts at $145. The certification fee is charged pass or fail, because you keep the complete findings either way.

Will buyers still do their own inspection?+

They're welcome to, and we never suggest otherwise. The difference is what their inspector finds: a certified home has already been inspected to a published standard, with the full report public before the offer. Their inspection confirms a document instead of discovering surprises — which is why certified deals renegotiate less.

Is National Home Register a real estate brokerage?+

No — and that's the point. NHR never lists homes, never earns a commission, and takes no percentage of any repair. Inspectors are paid the same whether a home passes or fails. Independence is what makes the seal worth trusting, and it's printed on every certificate.

What does the buyer see?+

Everything, free. The certificate, a plain-English summary, the county property record, and the complete professional file — inspection report, insurance forms, termite report — published before the offer. Nothing surfaces later, because it already surfaced.

How fast does certification happen?+

Book online in minutes — the county record prefills most of it and shows your exact fee before you pick a date. The inspection is one morning visit; the report files the same day; a clean home's certificate publishes as soon as the warranty binds.