Macomb County property inspection, done by people who know the housing stock.

What makes Macomb County inspections different.

Macomb County built out on its own track — Sterling Heights, Warren, and Clinton Township grew up alongside the auto plants their residents worked in, with a construction era that overlaps Oakland County's postwar boom but a character that's stayed distinctly its own. In 2023, Macomb issued over 1,200 new residential permits with 60% single-family, keeping pace with steady, working-family suburban growth rather than the higher-end lake-community development you'll see further west in Oakland.

That construction era means original mechanicals — furnaces, water heaters, electrical panels — reaching end of service life at a predictable, similar age across whole neighborhoods, and it means older sewer lateral materials in the county's more established communities that are worth scoping before they become the buyer's problem instead of the seller's. Chesterfield and Shelby Township's newer construction on the county's edges brings its own, different set of things worth checking — the kind that only show up a few years in.