02 Jan Real Estate License Reciprocity – UPDATED 2023
Although there is no such thing as a “national real estate license” in the United States, many states have agreements with each other that accomplish a similar outcome. We refer to it as real estate license reciprocity or having a reciprocal real estate license.
If you are interested in doing occasional business in a neighboring state, getting licensed there might not be necessary. Instead, we can connect you with a an office who will work with you on a commission basis – saving you the time and money of maintaining a license in two states. For information, contact us and someone will get back to you asap.
This is a list of all the US states and their real estate license reciprocity status (updated April 2021):
IMPORTANT: The updated list of real estate license reciprocity by state is at the bottom of this post. We left the original reciprocity rules at the top to help eliminate any confusion. We wanted you to be able to see some of the history of the reciprocity and mutual recognition for your state. These rules are constantly changing due to political shifts, so check back from time to time if you need an update.
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Alabama
Alabama has reciprocity with any other state if the license has been held for a year or more. You’ll need to complete the portion of the exam which deals with Alabama law.
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Alaska
Alaska has Reciprocity with any other state if the license has been held for a year or more. You’ll need to complete the portion of the exam which deals with Alaska law.
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Arizona
Arizona has no full reciprocity with other states, but does recognize qualifications from other states provided the license has been active for at least the past year. See the AZ out-of-state licensing brochure for more details.
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Arkansas
Arkansas has reciprocity with Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington and West Virginia.
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California
California has no reciprocity with other states.
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Colorado
Colorado offers reciprocity with any other state. You’ll need to complete the portion of the exam which deals with Colorado law.
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Connecticut
Connecticut has reciprocity with Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma and Rhode Island. You’ll need to complete a Connecticut Certificate of License History Form.
If your current state is Florida, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, or you have not taken an examination in a reciprocal state, you’ll need to sit the state portion of the Connecticut Real Estate Examination.
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Delaware
Delaware offers reciprocity with all states. You’ll need to either complete the Delaware state law exam, demonstrate a minimum number of study hours in your current state, or show evidence of a minimum number of transactions within the last three years or licensing.
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Florida
Florida offers reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Nebraska and Rhode Island. You’ll need to complete the Florida law portion of the real estate exam.
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Georgia
Georgia offers reciprocity with all states. You’ll need to complete an approved 25-hour post-license couse within your first year of licensure. Some courses in other states may be used to satisfy this requirement.
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Hawaii
Hawaii offers no formal reciprocity with other states, however a salesperson may qualify for an equivalency to the prelicense education requirements, based on pre-license education in another state.
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Idaho
Idaho does not technically offer reciprocity, but waives the national portion of the licensing exam, prelicense education, and any applicable broker experience requirements if you are hold an active licensed in any other state.
You may obtain the same type of license (broker or salesperson) as you hold in your current state. If your current state offers “broker” licenses, you must hold a Principal or Designated Broker license to qualify for an Idaho broker license.
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Illinois
Illinois offers reciprocity with Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
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Indiana
In 2014, Indiana announced the end of reciprocity with all states. Previously, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Rhode Island were offered reciprocal agreements. Your current state may qualify if it has licensing requirements that are “substantially similar” to those in Indiana.
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Iowa
Iowa offers reciprocity with Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, and North Dakota.
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Kansas
Kansas does not offer full reciprocity with other states, bu based on an application you may be waived a portion of the prelicense education and examination requirements.
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Kentucky
Kentucky no longer offers reciprocity with any other state except Ohio. KREC has announced it is negotiating reciprocal agreements with individual states. Please contact us to check for an update regarding your state.
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Louisiana
Lousiana offers reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.
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Maine
Maine offers reciprocity with all other states. You’ll need to complete the Maine law portion of the state exam.
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Maryland
Maryland offers full reciprocity with Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. In other states you’ll need to complete the Maryland state portion of the real estate exam.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts offers full reciprocity with Connecticut, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Nebraska, Iowa, Tennessee, Mississippi, Colorado, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
Full reciprocity is offered to salespersons/brokers with more than two years of license history from Oklahoma and New York.
Full reciprocity is offered to salespersons/brokers with more than three years of license history from Maine.
All other states require an application for an Educational Waiver.
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Michigan
Michigan offers no reciprocity with other states.
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Minnesota
Minnesota offers full reciprocity with Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota
Wisconsin license holders must email course completion certificates documenting completion of a Minnesota broker course of at least 13 hours, and email original passing results for the Minnesota State Laws portion of the written examination.
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Mississippi
Mississippi does not publish a list of states with reciprocity arrangements, but invites applications for reciprocal licensing for MREC to assess. The requirements include references from three real-estate owners.
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Missouri
Missouri offers reciprocity with all other states. You’ll need to complete the Missouri portion of the real estate exam anda take the
24-hour Missouri Real Estate Practice (MREP) Course.
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Montana
Montana offers full reciprocity with Alberta, Canada. Pre-licensing education from other states may be waived depending on an application.
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Nebraska
Nebraska offers conditional reciprocity with Alabama, Alberta Canada, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming.
For all other states, the Nebraska commission will give credit to pre-license courses taken outside Nebraska as long as they were approved by the real estate regulatory body in that jurisdiction, and are similar to the Nebraska curriculum. To determine credit, an applicant may submit a copy of the course completion certificate and a syllabus or detailed course outline to the office for review.
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Nevada
Nevada offers reciprocity for Salesperson licenses in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washingston, West Virginia.
Broker license reciprocity is also offered in California, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia an Wyoming.
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New Hampshire
For Salespeople, New Hampshire offers reciprocity with Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Georgia. You’ll need to complete the state portion of the New Hampshire examination.
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New Jersey
New Jersey offers no reciprocity with other states.
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New Mexico
New Mexico offers full reciprocity with Georgia, Louisiana and Massachusetts.
License holders from other states must complete a Broker Basics course and are eligible to apply for a waiver of 60 of the 90 hours of prelicensure education if they can provide a certified license history from their resident licensing jurisdiction.
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New York
New York offers conditional reciprocity with Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia,Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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North Carolina
North Carolina offers conditional reciprocity with any other US state or Canadian jurisdiction that has been on active status within the previous three years and is equivalent to NC’s provisional or “full” broker license. You’ll need to complete the state section of the NCREC licensing exam.
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North Dakota
North Dakota offers reciprocity with Georgia, Iowa and Minnesota.
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Ohio
Ohio offers Salesperson and Broker reciprocity with Arkansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma refers to real estate reciprocity as a “non-resident agreement.” The following states have non-resident agreements with Oklahoma: Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. You’ll need to complete the state section of the AMP exam as a minimum, and possibly other sections if your current license has been held for less than one year.
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Oregon
Oregon offers conditional reciprocity with Alabama, Alberta, Georgia, Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania offers reciprocity with Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York.
If your current state isn’t listed, but you completed at least 75 or more hours of license education to get your current license, and have been licensed within the past 5 years, Pennsylvania DOS will consider a certificate or certified letter attesting to your license history.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island offers Reciprocity with Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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South Carolina
Except for Georgia, South Carolina offers “license recognition” to license holders in other US states who are non-resident in South Carolina. You’ll need to complete the state section of the SC real estate exam.
Licensed residents of Georgia are offered Full Reciprocity in South Carolina.
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South Dakota
South Dakota offers reciprocity to all states, based on a certificate of license history from your current state. You’ll need to complete the state portion of the South Dakota broker exam.
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Tennessee
Tennessee offers conditional reciprocity to all states following an application, evidence of 90 (affiliate broker) or 120 (broker) hours of real estate education, and the 30-hour Tennessee Course for New Affiliates (CNA).
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Texas
Texas has no reciprocity with other states.
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Utah
Utah offers full reciprocity with Georgia, Mississippi and Alberta, Canada.
Applicants with an active real estate license in other states may qualify for a waiver of some education and/or national exam requirements based on a successful application.
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Vermont
Vermont offers reciprocity to any other state, provided it has eligibility requirements of 40 hours of education and both the state and national exam are taken via provider PSI or its subsidiary AMP.
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Virginia
Virginia offers reciprocity with all states. You’ll need to complete the state part of the Virginia exam. Brokers must have been been active – averaging 40 hours/week – in the real estate business during 24 of the previous 36 months.
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Washington
Washington offers reciprocity with all states based on a review of evidence of your license activity.
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West Virginia
West Virginia offers license recognition with all states. You’ll need to complete the state part of the licensing exam, provide a certificate of licensure, place a surety bond and fulfil certain other requirements as part of the application.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin offers full reciprocity with Illinois and Indiana. You’ll need to pass the sales license exam.
Applicants in other states must complete the WI-specific 13 hours pre-licensing education for salespersons, and 10 academic semester hour credits at an institution of higher learning in real estate or real estate related law. The course taken in your home state should cover at least this content.
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Wyoming
Salespersons must pass the Wyoming Law portion of the Salesperson I Course, complete and pass all of Salesperson II Course, and pass the State Exam for Salespersons before applying.
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If you have questions about real estate license reciprocity in your state that weren’t answered here, please contact us and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
If you have an update for our real estate license reciprocity status for your state, please let us know. The real estate laws in each state are constantly changing. We do our best to keep up with them, but sometimes we miss some updates.
UPDATED FOR 2023
- What states have reciprocity with Alabama real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
- What states have reciprocity with Alaska real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Arizona real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Arkansas real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Tennessee.
- What states have reciprocity with California real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Colorado real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Connecticut real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Delaware real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Florida real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Rhode Island.
- What states have reciprocity with Georgia real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
- What states have reciprocity with Hawaii real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Idaho real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Illinois real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
- What states have reciprocity with Indiana real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Illinois.
- What states have reciprocity with Iowa real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
- What states have reciprocity with Kansas real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Kentucky real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma.
- What states have reciprocity with Louisiana real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
- What states have reciprocity with Maine real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Maryland real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Massachusetts real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Michigan real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Minnesota real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Iowa and Wisconsin.
- What states have reciprocity with Mississippi real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, and Wyoming.
- What states have reciprocity with Missouri real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Montana real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Nebraska real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
- What states have reciprocity with Nevada real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with New Hampshire real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with New Jersey real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with New Mexico real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Louisiana and Nebraska. 32. What states have reciprocity with New York real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with North Carolina real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Nebraska, and Tennessee.
- What states have reciprocity with North Dakota real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Iowa.
- What states have reciprocity with Ohio real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Oklahoma real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
- What states have reciprocity with Oregon real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Pennsylvania real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Rhode Island real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Florida.
- What states have reciprocity with South Carolina real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with South Dakota real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
- What states have reciprocity with Tennessee real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, and North Carolina.
- What states have reciprocity with Texas real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Utah real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Vermont real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Virginia real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with Washington real estate license? – No reciprocity.
- What states have reciprocity with West Virginia real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Georgia.
- What states have reciprocity with Wisconsin real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Illinois and Minnesota.
- What states have reciprocity with Wyoming real estate license? – Partial reciprocity with Mississippi.