Real estate broker, across 3 jurisdictions
What is published about this occupation wherever the index has looked, best grade first.
Where it is regulated
| Jurisdiction | Authority | Public page | Bulk export | Machine readable | Signed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US-CA | California Department of Real Estate | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | B |
| AE-DXB | Dubai Land Department | Yes | No | Gated | No | C |
| PH | Professional Regulation Commission | Yes | No | No | No | D |
What was found
Licensee list files are downloadable free of charge in Excel, with the columns defined in a published form, RE 776, which is more documentation than most registers offer. Excel is structured but it is not an interface: there is no query, no change feed and no way to ask what moved since yesterday without holding both files and diffing them yourself..
Dubai Land Department
CThe jurisdiction that has gone furthest on the thing this lab is actually trying to do, by regulation rather than by protocol. Every broker carries a registration number and every brokerage an office number, both verifiable on the spot through the land department’s own service. More to the point, every legal property advertisement must carry a permit number issued by the regulator, with a scannable code that checks the advert against the registry, and the penalties are real: a fine per listing for both broker and agency, suspension of the broker number on a second offence, permanent cancellation for repeat offenders.
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.