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Any individual who intends to operate as a real estate agent (including property managers) or business agent in Western Australia must hold a real estate and business agent licence and a current triennial certificate as required under the Real Estate and Business Agents Act 1978.
You must work under a registered real estate and business sales representative or a developer.
Before you apply
You'll need
1. Relevant Qualifications
You must hold one of the following qualifications:
- Bachelor of Commerce - Property, Property Investment and Development, Property Development and Valuation or Property Valuation are all accepted.
- Master of Property (additional Certificate IV units required)
- Graduate Diploma in Property (additional Certificate IV units required)
- Diploma of Property (Agency Management) - CPP51122 (additional Certificate IV units required)
- Diploma of Property Services (Agency Management) - CPP50307
Full qualification requirements are prescribed in the Real Estate and Business Agents (General) Regulations 1979.
Relevant experience
You must also demonstrate the following experience:
- A current résumé showing at least 2 years employment history
- Transaction experience (please refer to the sample spreadsheet).
2. Additional documents
You'll also need:
- Two business references completed using the pro forma showing at least two years of full-time experience (one must be from outside your current workplace).
- A police check (dated within the past 3 months, showing the same name as your identification).
3. Complete application form
Print or digitally complete the application form.
How to apply
Apply and pay for your application
By post or in person
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If posting your application and paying by credit card, you must include an application payment form. Post to: Licensing Services |
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Fees
See the Real Estate and Business Agent Licensing fees page for full fee information.
After your application has been submitted
Licence applications typically take 4–6 weeks to process. We’ll contact you if we need any additional information, and you’ll receive an email once your licence has been finalised.
Already have a licence in Australia or New Zealand?
Show moreIf you are registered or licensed as a Real estate and business agents' licence elsewhere in Australia or New Zealand and want to carry out real estate and business representative work in Western Australia, you can find out more information about having your licence recognised in WA.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for property professionals
Show more- Phone: 1300 304 054 (8.30am–4.30pm, Monday to Friday)
Character and Repute
Show moreYou must:
- provide a police check (less than 3 months old)
- disclose any previous convictions, pending proceedings, reprimands or fines
- If you answer “yes” to any character questions, you must provide additional information.
The Commissioner may request an interview. - Providing false or misleading information is an offence and may result in a penalty of up to $20,000.
Relevant units and competencies
Show moreIn assessing experience, consideration may be given to activities and competencies aligned with units from the CPP41419 Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice, including (but not limited to):
- preparing to work with real estate trust accounts
- transacting in trust accounts
- establishing and maintaining buyer, vendor, landlord and tenant relationships
- selling property and negotiating transactions
- managing tenancies, including commencing and ending tenancies
- marketing and appraising property
- These competencies are commonly demonstrated through work undertaken as a sales representative or property manager, including where a restrictive condition has been removed from a registration.
- Holding a Statement of Attainment for relevant units may support your application; however, qualifications alone are not sufficient.
You must demonstrate practical, hands‑on, end‑to‑end experience.
Find a licenced real estate and business agent
Show moreThe online licence search can help you find a licensed real estate or business agent.
How to use the online licence search
Search by number: You can check if a licence number is still valid. Type the number into the field on the opening screen.
Search by type of licence: You can look for licensed people in your neighbourhood. Click on ‘Type’. Start typing in the licence type in the box eg. debt collector. Then type in either a name or location.
Observational, administrative or theoretical experience alone is not sufficient.
The Commissioner will consider the volume, nature, complexity and recency of transactions undertaken.
Experience must relate directly to negotiating real estate or business transactions, as defined in section 4 of the Real Estate and Business Agents Act 1978.
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