Home Inspection Requirements for New Mexico

• Home Inspection Regulated:
  Yes
• License Type:
  Home Inspector
• Regulating Body:
  New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department (Home Inspector Board)
• Rules and Regulations:
  16.66.3.11 (a)
• Exam:
  NHIE
• Pre-Licensing Education Required:
  Yes
• Pre-licensing Education Hours Required:
  80 Hours
• Pre-licensing Live Virtual Education Allowed:
  Yes
• Pre-licensing Self-paced Education Allowed:
  Yes
• Field Training and Experience Required:
  Yes
• Experience Required:
  80 hours of field training.
• License Renewal Cycle:
  3 years
• Continuing Education (CE) Required:
  Yes
• CE Hours Required:
  60 Hours
• CE Live Virtual Education Allowed:
  Yes
• CE Self-paced Education Allowed:
  Yes

Ordinance and Contacts

New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department (Home Inspector Board)

Unless otherwise provided in the Home Inspector HB 433/a Licensing Act, an applicant for a license shall:
(1) complete an application on forms provided by the board;
(2) provide documentation to establish that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age and a legal resident of the United States;
(3) provide the board with the applicant’s fingerprints and all information necessary for a state and national criminal background check;
(4) provide proof of and maintain insurance coverage as provided in Section 12 of the Home Inspector Licensing Act;
(5) have completed at least eighty hours of classroom training, the content of which shall be established by rule of the board;
(6) pass a national home inspector licensing examination and any additional licensing examinations as prescribed by the board; and
(7) have completed at least eighty hours of field training, or its equivalent, as determined by the board.
B. Paragraphs (5) and (7) of Subsection A of this section shall not apply to a person who has:
(1) worked as a home inspector in each of the twenty-four months immediately preceding the effective date of the Home Inspector Licensing Act; and(
2) performed at least one hundred home inspections for compensation in the twenty-four months immediately preceding the effective date of the Home Inspector Licensing Act.
C. After the board’s review of all information obtained by the board and submitted by the applicant as required by this section, if all of the requirements
for licensure are met, the board shall issue a license to the applicant.

See https://www.rld.nm.gov/boards-and-commissions/individual-boards-and-commissions/home-inspectors/ for current information regarding licensing. 

If you have any questions regarding the Home Inspectors Board, please contact (505) 222-2829 or by email boards.commissions@state.nm.us

Address: 

5500 San Antonio Drive NE Albuquerque, NM 87109