Real estate broker in PH
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The law already demands most of a claim document. The Real Estate Service Act makes practising without registration and a valid identification card an offence, and separately requires a practitioner to put their registration and licence details on every document they sign, use or issue in connection with their practice. That is the subject, the trade, the licence reference and the issuing body, mandated by statute, on every piece of paper. What is published to check it against is a free search form, by name or by number, which the Commission itself hedges with a warning that human or mechanical error and delays in updating remain possible. The regulator’s own framing is the sharpest sentence found in this pass: the card can be perfectly genuine and the registration still lapsed, because the card is not the licence, the registry is. Which is precisely why the registry has to be publishable as something a machine can keep.
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.