Agente inmobiliario in ES
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
There is no national register. Each autonomous community decides for itself, and they decided at different times and in different directions: Catalonia created the first one, the Basque Country, Madrid, Navarre and the Canaries followed, and Madrid has been moving to make registration mandatory rather than voluntary, which the sector describes as closing one of the last large pockets of unregulated property activity in the country. Cross-border inside Spain is handled by asking an agent operating in another community to declare a physical address and prove registration in an equivalent register elsewhere, which is mutual recognition by paperwork. The number worth remembering is from Catalonia: six months after its mandatory register opened, 34.2 per cent of the region’s agents had signed up.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | No | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | No | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Give every licence a stable address
The register exists but lives behind a search form, so there is nothing to link to, nothing to archive and nothing to attest against. A permanent address per licence costs little and moves this row to grade C on its own.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.