2. The Legislature finds and declares that the purchase of a residence involves a substantial portion of the average household’s net worth, and the decision to purchase a particular residence requires consideration of a wide range of factors concerning the area in which the residential real estate is located; that the professionals who engage in the business of selling newly-constructed residential real estate can facilitate prudent decision-making with respect to the purchase of residences by advising purchasers of the availability of information concerning factors which can reasonably be determined to exist and which may affect the value of the residence; that the due diligence responsibilities of purchasers and the disclosure duties of sellers of residential real estate are mutually interdependent and, therefore, ambiguity in the definition and assignment of the sellers’ disclosure duties may inadvertently diminish the due diligence efforts of purchasers, or unnecessarily increase the costs of residential real estate transactions; and that there currently exists ambiguity concerning the disclosure duties of the sellers of residential real estate.

The Legislature therefore determines that it is in the public interest to define the entirety of the disclosure duties of the sellers of newly constructed residential real estate and to create a public repository of relevant off-site conditions which may be accessed by purchasers of such real estate.

L.1995,c.253,s.2.