The extent of building inspection practice among home buyers after receiving the keys at Taman Lagenda, Teluk Intan, Perak / Nazatul Ashikin Nazli and Wan Samsul Zamani Wan Hamdan

Building inspection practice is the important action that the home buyers need to take serious by identify the building defects that are a common problem in Malaysian housing provision. New housing should theoretically be perfect. So that the quality of housing created may be verified, buildings should be inspected starting with the planning stage and continuing through the handing over stage. It is becoming more and more difficult to ignore the need for defect reporting at the moment new residential constructions are turned over. A quantitative method was conducted to complete this research by doing a questionnaire method. Based on the study, the level of understanding of respondents about the building inspection practice are higher for the new home buyers after receiving the keys and also the suggested way to increase the level of awareness about the building inspection practice among the home buyers based on the questionnaire also give the positive result for the objective. This shows that by doing a building inspection practice for the new house can give the guarantee of safety for the building.