A home inspector’s website has one job: when a buyer or a real estate agent searches for an inspector, it shows them that you are a real business and makes it easy to schedule. Most inspectors know they need one. Far fewer know what a good one should cost, or how much of the work stays in their hands after it is built.
Shopping for a home inspector website can be easy if you know what to look for, have the pricing in hand and understand what matters most to you. Start with what the options cost.
What a home inspector website costs
Prices vary widely because you are really choosing between four different things. These are published figures; your market and the work you ask for will move them.
| Option | Typical range | How you pay |
|---|---|---|
| Do-it-yourself builder | About $0–$500 a year, or roughly $16–$40 a month on the plans most small businesses use | Monthly or yearly |
| Freelancer | $1,500–$10,000; for an inspection company specifically, about $2,200–$7,250 | Upfront, plus hosting |
| Agency | $5,800–$17,400 for an inspection company; $10,000–$50,000+ for fully custom work | Upfront, plus hosting |
| Inspector-specific website service | Entry plans about $69 a month or $699 a year plus a $499 setup fee; larger plans about $159 a month or $1,599 a year plus a $799 setup fee | Monthly or yearly, plus setup |
| Inspector website designer on your own account | About $550 one time plus about $27 a month hosting (a home inspector association member offer) | One time, plus monthly |
| Running costs on top of a custom build | About $35–$160 a month for hosting, tools and maintenance | Monthly |
Two things are worth noticing. First, the lowest-priced option costs your time instead of your money. A do-it-yourself site takes evenings to build and more evenings to keep current, and the result often looks like it was built in evenings. Second, the expensive options are rarely finished when the invoice is paid. A freelancer or agency site still needs hosting, and every later change goes back through the person who built it.
Add it up over the first year. An entry-level inspector website service at $699 a year plus a $499 setup fee is $1,198. A larger plan at $1,599 plus an $799 setup fee is $2,398. A freelancer build at the middle of the inspection-company range, plus hosting, lands in the same neighborhood or well above it. Against those numbers, a website that costs a few hundred dollars a year and has no setup fee is a different category of expense.
The update problem: whose website is it?
Ask inspectors about their websites and the complaint is rarely the design. It is the waiting. You add radon testing, raise a price, earn a new certification or change your service area, and the website is wrong until someone else gets around to fixing it.
When the site is built and run by someone else, a change becomes a request: you email, you wait, you follow up, and sometimes you pay. Published service levels show how slow this can be. One inspector website service lists a 3 to 5 day turnaround for edits on its entry plan and under 48 hours on its larger plan. Freelancers and agencies often bill by the hour or by the request. In the meantime your site shows last year’s price or leaves out your newest service.
The second difficulty is control. Ask early who owns the domain name, who holds the logins, and what happens to the site if you stop paying or the designer stops answering. A site you cannot edit, move or take with you is a site you are renting on someone else’s terms. The ten features below are written with those two problems in mind.
Ten features of a professional home inspector website
1. A price that does not need a loan
A website should cost less than one inspection fee a month. Look for a flat monthly or yearly price, no setup fee, and no extra charge when you want something changed. A low price that adds a setup fee, a design fee and a per-change fee is not a low price.
2. Several pages, not just one
A single page can work as a placeholder, but a buyer or agent deciding between inspectors wants more: who you are, what you inspect, what it costs, how to schedule. Look for a multi-page site with room for your story, your services and your contact details.
3. A professional design you can choose
Most inspectors are not designers and should not have to be. Look for a choice of professionally designed layouts, with room for your logo, your photos and your colors, and the ability to switch designs later without rebuilding. A background video helps a site feel finished on day one.
4. You can edit any word or photo, any time
This is the answer to the update problem. When you can change a price, swap a photo or add a section yourself and publish it in minutes, the site is never out of date because you were waiting on someone. Look for an editor that works on a phone or a laptop and does not require any code.
5. Online scheduling that connects to your business
A site that only lists a phone number loses the buyer who is searching at 9 p.m. Look for online scheduling that connects to the scheduling you already use, so an inspection scheduled on the website lands on your calendar instead of in a second inbox you have to remember to check.
6. Your own domain name
yourcompany.com looks like an established business, and it stays with you if you ever change providers. Look for a service that lets you connect a domain you own, with the steps shown for your domain company, and ask who is listed as the owner of the domain.
7. Built to be found on Google and in AI search
Most inspectors get found by searching, and more and more of those searches now end in an AI answer. Look for a site that is built to be found by both: clear page titles, plain descriptions of your services and the town you serve, and a fast, mobile-friendly design.
8. Trust built in: licenses, badges, sample reports and reviews
A buyer is about to hand a stranger a large decision. Show your license, your certifications and association badges, link to your Google reviews, and let visitors open a sample report. Seeing a real report answers the question every buyer has: what will I actually get?
9. Mobile friendly, with hosting handled
Most visitors will find you on a phone, often in a car outside a house they are about to buy. The site should work well on small screens, and secure hosting should be included rather than a separate bill and a separate login.
10. Your services and fees, and a clear exit
Clients want to know what you offer and roughly what it costs. A site that shows your services and fees, taken from the same price list your software uses, answers that and keeps the numbers consistent. And ask what happens if you cancel: how long the site stays up, and whether you keep anything.
How JetInspect measures up
Here is the list again, answered for JetInspect. Jeff Herrera built it after years as a home inspector, and the website is part of it.
Price. A one-page website is included with a JetInspect subscription at no extra cost. The premium website, with six pages, is $20 a month or $220 a year (save $20), with no setup fee and one plan.
You do not need the software. The premium website can be bought on its own. With JetInspect, clients can also schedule online from the website.
Design and pages. A six-page website with your choice of five professionally designed websites, and a background video included.
Editing. Edit any word or photo yourself, any time. Change words, photos and sections, switch designs, and publish when you are ready.
Domain. Connect a domain you own; the setup screen shows each step for your domain company. Without one, the site lives at inspectors.mobileinspectionapps.com/your-business.
Found and trusted. Optimized for Google and AI search results. It displays licensing, certifications and other badges, showcases your sample reports and links to your Google reviews.
Phones, hosting and fees. Mobile friendly with secure hosting, and your services and fees use the same services and prices the software uses.
If you cancel. The premium website stays up until the end of the period you have paid for. JetInspect users keep their one-page website, and premium pages are saved for 60 days in case you change your mind.
For a sense of the result, see Inspections by Pete in Clermont, Florida. His own words: “The new editor makes it easy to update my photos and content myself whenever I want.”
Put next to the table above, the first-year cost of the premium website is $220, with no setup fee. JetInspect itself is $20 a month for one inspector, with a 30-day free trial, no setup fee, and cancel any time.
Cost figures are published estimates, not quotes, and prices change. Sources: do-it-yourself, freelancer and agency ranges from Digitaleer (July 2026) and Project Cost Estimator’s home inspector page (July 2026); builder plan prices from WebsiteBuilderExpert and HostAdvice 2026 comparisons; inspector website service plans from a software vendor’s published website pricing; inspector website designer offer from the InterNACHI vendor offers page. Your costs will vary.