Real Estate Licensing Data: USA & Canada

At a glance

• 5 regulators are self-regulatory or delegated bodies, not government departments: Real Estate Council of Alberta, Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission, Real Estate Council of Ontario, Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec, Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission.
• In 9 jurisdictions only people are licensed, and a brokerage works under its broker’s license: Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina.
• Titles like broker-in-charge, designated broker and broker of record are roles on a license, not licenses of their own, so they aren’t listed as categories.

What this data does

This table is the source for the profile builder. Pick where you’re licensed and it fills in the regulator, suggests the license categories in the regulator’s own words, and shows the license-number format where one is published. It never overrides what you type. When a saved profile names a regulator in a different form (all capitals, say), it is set to the official name.

In schema.org markup, a license is an EducationalOccupationalCredential. The category goes in credentialCategory, and the regulator goes in recognizedBy, typed as a GovernmentOrganization for a government body or an Organization for a self-regulatory or delegated one. The brokerage answer decides whether a license belongs on the brokerage at all: where only people are licensed, the credential goes on the agent and the brokerage carries none.

This is how two rows compile, from the same code the builder runs:

{
  "hasCredential": {
    "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
    "credentialCategory": "Sales Associate",
    "identifier": "SL1234567",
    "recognizedBy": {
      "@type": "GovernmentOrganization",
      "name": "Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation",
      "url": "https://www.myfloridalicense.com/"
    }
  }
}

{
  "hasCredential": {
    "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
    "credentialCategory": "Salesperson",
    "identifier": "1234567",
    "recognizedBy": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Real Estate Council of Ontario",
      "url": "https://www.reco.on.ca/"
    }
  }
}

License numbers in these examples are made up.

How it’s checked

• Every entry was read on the regulator’s own website, or in the statute where the website couldn’t be read (Nunavut). The source link and date on each row show exactly what was checked, and when.
• License names are the regulator’s own. Where a regulator licenses a company under several business forms, each form is listed.
• The regulator is always the authority. This is reference data for writing accurate markup, not legal or licensing advice, and listing a regulator doesn’t mean it endorses this site.

Using this data

This dataset is a compilation of public sources. Each entry is drawn from a regulator’s own website or the governing statute, and each row links to the source it was checked against. The underlying facts are public record and belong to no one. The CC BY 4.0 license covers the compilation itself: the selection and arrangement of entries, the checking, the regulator types, the notes and the dates. Use it for anything; just credit it, for example:

Nishimura, T. (2026). Real Estate Licensing Data: USA & Canada [Data set]. RealEstateSchema.com.