General license requirements

Pre-license course

State license examination


General license requirements

To qualify for a Florida sales associate license, the applicant must 

  • have a Social Security number
  • receive approval of the license application
  • pay all required fees
  • meet all general licensure provisions including age, education, character, competency, submission of associated background history and fingerprints.

Prelicense course

Applicants for a sales associate license must complete 63 classroom hours of an FREC-approved prelicense course, referred to as Course I, to be taken at an accredited college, career center, or registered real estate school. The course includes the fundamentals of real estate principles and practices, real estate law and license law, and associated mathematics. The required hours consist of 60 hours of instruction, either in the classroom or by way of distance learning, and three hours allowed for the end-of-course examination. 

State license examination

After completing the prelicense coursework and passing the end-of-course examination, an applicant has 2 years to take and pass the state licensure examination. If the applicant waits longer than the 2 years, he or she must retake the prelicense course to be eligible to take the licensure examination.

Failing the examination. An applicant who fails the examination may request a review of the questions answered incorrectly. The request must be made within 21 days of taking the exam and may be performed only for the applicant’s most recent exam. The applicant must pay a fee for the review and is given half of the exam administration time for the review. During the review process, the applicant may challenge the incorrect answer to have it reviewed by a subject matter expert. 

Whether or not the applicant challenges the results of the failed exam, he or she may pay a fee and retake the exam as many times as necessary within 2 years. There is no waiting period to retake the examination.

License issuance. The license is issued in an inactive status. To activate the license, the sales associate must establish an association with a broker and then either activate his or her own license by printing the DBPR RE 11 Sales Associate or Broker Sales Associate – Become Active form and having the broker sign it or by having the broker add the sales associate to the broker’s online account.

The sales associate must be licensed, associated with a broker, and activated prior to performing any real estate services which require a license.

The RE 11 form can be found online at http://www.myfloridalicense.com/dbpr/re/documents/DBPR_RE_11_Change_of_Status_Associates.pdf