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California (CA) real estate license data

~385k licensed real estate professionals in California, refreshed monthly from the California Department of Real Estate and matched to contact data.

~385kactive license records in California as of September 2026
15.3%of the 2.5M-record North American file
#1of 62 covered jurisdictions
~75%of records file-wide carry an email or phone

What is in the California file

Every state-level license record for California: licensee name, license number, license type, status, original issue and expiration dates, brokerage or office affiliation, and the public address of record. We add matched email and phone from our people graph, flagging line type so you know which phones are mobiles.

Illustrative rows in the file's layout. Names are masked and license numbers are synthetic; the real values come with the sample.
license_nonametypestatusofficecityissuedexpiresemailmobile
CA-365473J••••• R•••••SalespersonActiveRE/MAXLos Angeles04/11/201904/30/2027j•••••@gmail.com(•••) •••-••41
CA-523639M••••• T•••BrokerActiveLPT REALTYSan Diego09/02/200812/31/2026m•••@kw.com(•••) •••-••07

California by the numbers

  • Brokers are ~25% of the California file (~91k of ~385k).
  • ~15k licensees were first licensed in the twelve months to the September 2026 snapshot, and ~170k have held a license since before 2010.
  • Largest brokerages by licensee count: eXp Realty of California, Inc. (~5.0k), Real Brokerage Technologies (~4.9k), Compass California II, Inc. (~3.7k), Compass California, Inc. (~3.4k), NRT West, Inc. (~3.3k).
  • Between the August 2026 and September 2026 releases, ~1.8k California licensees changed office of record, under 5% of those matched across both files.

Measured on the September 2026 snapshot and rounded. Movers compare two consecutive monthly releases on license number; see real estate agent movers and newly licensed agents for every jurisdiction.

How California is refreshed

California is refreshed monthly from the California Department of Real Estate. Statuses and license types are normalized to a common vocabulary with the regulator's original values preserved alongside them, then compared against the prior month. New licensees, lapsed licenses, brokerage moves and expirations arrive as flagged deltas, so a monthly file doubles as a recruiting and job-change signal.

California is the largest single jurisdiction in the file and carries salesperson and broker types plus corporate licenses.

Common uses in California

  • Agent recruiting for brokerages and teams, by office, tenure and expiration window
  • Proptech and lender go-to-market: every producing agent with a verified mobile
  • Compliance: confirm a license is active before paying a referral or co-op fee
  • Marketing suppression: remove licensees from homeowner campaigns

Check one California license

Need to confirm a single licensee rather than buy the file? The California real estate license lookup answers yes or no against this same monthly copy of the California Department of Real Estate register, free, five checks an hour, no account.

Property data for California

Licensees are one side of the California market and the housing stock is the other. California property data covers every residential parcel in the state with owner, structure, value and sale fields, and publishes the measured fill rate for each one. Agent records and parcel records share a key, so a licensee can be matched to the property they own or listed.

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