As you can see, as a future real estate owner a professional snagging inspection brings you nothing but advantages. But be aware: the term “professional” makes the difference here, since it’s often crucial details that make the difference between a well-built house and a defect you need to get fixed.
Snagging Inspection
Why Snagging is Important
You plan on buying a new house or are about to sign a contract for a company building? Congratulations!
To make sure that you don’t run into costly and stressful issues down the line, we highly recommend you to get a snagging inspection done. It’s a way to identify and document any problems with the property before you purchase it. This can help you avoid costly repairs down the road.
About SnagMe
At SnagMe we’re convinced: Everyone deserves damage-free property. Through our inspections we help with that – by ensuring that your future property is damage-free before you sign a contract.
Since 2010, we’ve done over 160 inspections in Dubai. Is yours next?
Why Choose SnagMe?
We’ve been successful in the market for over 10 years now. With good reason.
At SnagMe, we pride ourselves with being thorough, reliable – and fluent in multiple languages. We’re convinced, everyone deserves damage-free property. That’s why we provide our services in English, Arabic, French and German.
To make the handover of your future property as easy as possible, we also provide our services for people overseas. Schedule an inspection with us and we’ll take care of your property in Dubai.
Your SnagMe
Inspection Coverage
No SnagMe inspection is the same, just like not every building is the same. Once you’ve scheduled an inspection with us, we’ll prepare a custom checklist for the inspector to go through your future property.
Nevertheless, there are aspects every SnagMe inspection covers. We’ve listed them here for your information. Feel free to reach out if you have further questions!
A SnagMe Snagging Inspection covers:
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Snagging Report
All issues discovered within a snagging inspection are collected in a so-called SnagMe Report. That’s an extensive report listing every room of your future property with every little defect detected.
The SnagMe Report is a guideline for the contractor who does the repairs. We make sure your Snagging Report is clearly worded without technical jargon, so that every construction worker can follow it clearly. We’ll also include pictures and descriptions of all damages found.
All snags are listed room by room, so you’ll get a quick overview of the overall quality of your future property. This also helps the contractor to use the report as a to do list.
Keep in mind that no house is perfect because it’s usually a large construction project and there are a lot of parties involved. Therefore, developers may get cross when it comes to fixing defects. The SnagMe Report is so important because it gives you an overview of the condition of your future property – and the opportunity to have the biggest defects fixed before signing the contract. It also lets you know where you may need to make repairs yourself afterwards.
To get an idea how a Snagging Report from SnagMe looks we encourage you to download our sample below. If you have additional questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at any time!
Sample SnagMe Report
To get an idea how the SnagMe report looks, we encourage you to download our sample report.
If you have questions or you’re ready to book your inspection, contact us anytime!
Take the First Step
… to Damage-Free Property
Contact us today with any enquiries prior to booking or request an inspection of your future property. We’re happy to help you get damage-free property in Dubai!
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FAQ Snagging Inspections
That depends on you: We’d happily do a de-snagging inspection for you. When scheduling your snagging inspection, you can select the option. We’ll include it in your initial proposal then.
If you don’t like to schedule a de-snagging inspection (yet), you can just deselect the option and add it later if need be.
In general, a de-inspection is necessary to make sure that the snags found during the initial snagging inspection have been properly rectified. You shouldn’t attempt to do this yourself, since the differences are sometimes hard to spot, just like with the snagging inspection.
Yes he can, since you’re usually doing a snagging inspection before signing the contract, so the property is still his. On the other side, the developer has an interest in selling you the property, so while it might take a bit of negotiating, they usually give in and let you do the snagging inspection. Especially if it’s about an expensive company building.
We recommend hiring a professional company to get the snagging done, so that you have the property checked with professional equipment. Experienced inspectors also know how to move around in your future property without damaging anything by accident.
Usually the best time for a snagging inspection is right before signing the contracts for your new real estate. This gives you the opportunity to let your developer or homebuilder fix any issues that might be discovered within the snagging inspection. It’s also easier for construction workers, electricians and other craftsmen to fix snags without someone living in the house, since they don’t have to watch out for furniture. Some developers deny access to your future home or company building, which they can legally do, since it’s still their property. But since they also want to sell you the house, it might take a bit of negotiating, but they usually give in for an inspection.
If they don’t and it doesn’t seem sketchy to you, you could also sign the contract and let a snagging inspection be done right after. Depending on the snags found, the constructor could still be liable according to article 880 of the UAE Civil Code you might still have the right to get your snags fixed for up to 10 years. You should still get the inspection done as soon as possible and before moving in, so that the developer can’t claim liability and make you responsible for the issues.
Note that a snagging inspection is only available for newly-built homes or company buildings. For secondary market purposes, there’s a similar inspection you can get done, but in that case it’s called “condition inspection”. Unfortunately, we’re not offering that. But we’re sure there are some great companies in your area! Feel free to use the information provided on our page to check their services.
