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A certificate of occupancy is a document issued by a local government agency or building department certifying a building's compliance with applicable building codes and other laws, and indicating it to be in a condition suitable for occupancy.
A real estate license is an authorization issued by a government body to give agents and brokers the legal authority to represent a home seller or buyer in a real estate transaction. Real estate agents and real estate brokers are required to be licensed when conducting real estate transactions in the United States and many other countries.
Some U.S. state real estate commissions – notably Florida's [5] after 1992 (and extended in 2003) and Colorado's [6] after 1994 (with changes in 2003) created the option of having no agency or fiduciary relationship between brokers and sellers or buyers.
The Nationwide Multi-State Licensing System and Registry (NMLS) (originally the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System) is the system of record for non-depository, financial services licensing or registration in participating state agencies, including the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.
(The dashed line shows the value from state estimates of licensing based on the Gallup Survey and PDII Survey results. The union membership estimates are from the Current Population Survey (CPS)). By 2008 occupational licensing in the U.S. had grown to 29 percent of the workforce, up from below five percent in the 1950s. [52]
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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association [4] for those who work in the real estate industry. As of December 2023, it had over 1.5 million members, [5] making it the largest trade association in the United States [6] including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
In United States business law, a registered agent (also known as a resident agent, [1] statutory agent, [2] or agent for service of process [3]) is a business or individual designated to receive service of process (SOP) when a business entity is a party in a legal action such as a lawsuit or summons. [4]