Real Estate Effective Oct. 15, waived inspections will be a thing of the past. For years, Massachusetts homebuyers in the state's hyper-competitive real estate market felt pressured to waive home inspections to make their offers more appealing. As of Oct. 15, new state regulations ban homeowners and realtors from selling a property on the condition that they waive the inspection and prohibit buyers from offering to waive the inspection to get ahead of the competition.