Also known as a snag list, it is a list of defects on a recently built property. They are the result of a visual inspection led and carried out directly by a qualified professional of Architecture or Engineering or by personnel duly trained for that purpose, including surveyors, project or site managers, contractors or building traders and in general professionals with extensive experience in the construction industry who are known as snaggers, but always supervised by the Engineer or the Architect.
It is recommended that a construction professional take care of your snagging inspection, as he will find more defects than “any of your best friends”(they will know what to look for and spot issues that would be missed by the untrained eye), since the builder is not obliged to inform you about defects that he is aware of. It is for the good of the buyer.