Real Estate License Renewal

No, the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® (PAR) is a membership organization.

The Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission grants and renews licenses in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission and the state Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs will NOT call licensees asking for payment over the phone. If you receive a call or text message asking for your credit card information, hang up. DO NOT give your personal or financial information over the phone.

If you believe you are a victim of any type of scam, you should immediately contact your local and state police.

Due to global supply chain issues involving specialty paper, the printing of professional licenses will be delayed. All renewals and other license changes are valid as soon as they show online in PALS.

If you missed the May 31, 2022, deadline, your license is expired, and you must cease practice immediately or be subject to possible discipline.

To reactive your license, you must log into your PALS account and apply to reactivate your license.

The PALS system is currently updating the system and will need several days to process those licenses that have not been renewed. You will not be able to able to start the reactivation process until PALS has completed the update. If you wish to start the reactivation process, you should contact the Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission directly and they will explain the process.

To reactivate your license, you will need to upload your continuing education transcripts, follow the online prompts and pay the necessary fees. Your information will have to be verified by the Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission. Your broker will receive a notification asking them to accept you as a licensee, which they must accept for your application to continue through the process.

Throughout this reactivation process, you should be checking the email address you have registered in PALS to make sure the commission hasn’t requested additional information to complete your reactivation. It is illegal to practice real estate without an active license.

The Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission, as of June 1, 2022, reported that processing renewal requests was taking approximately two weeks. Requests are responded to in the order they are submitted and as more requests are entered, the response time may take longer.

Your broker must have an active license in order for your license to be renewed. Agents should speak to their broker to see if they intend to renew and/or if the license renewal for the broker is in "limbo."

For all brokerage licenses (RB, RBR, RM, RMR, LB, LBR, LM, LMR, RR and MR license types) after June 1, 2022, the Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission will no longer accept reactivation applications. If the license expires or is placed “Out of Business,” the broker will need to submit new initial applications for a new company and broker of record license. If the Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission can tell that the company had a broker license within the last 30 days, then it will waive the inspection, but otherwise all documentation and fees for the new licenses would need to be submitted. Broker sole proprietor licensees (RB) will still be able to reactivate rather than applying for a new license.

If a brokerage license was not renewed, it impacted all the licensees attached to the brokerage as well.