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Georgia Real Estate License Types

Georgia licenses individuals as salespersons, brokers, associate brokers, or community association managers, and licenses brokerage firms separately. Each credential has different education, experience, examination, and supervision conditions.

Facts checked against the current PSI Candidate Information Bulletin and GREC sources. Last reviewed August 2, 2026. Editorial standards.

What is the direct answer?

A salesperson practices for a broker. A broker may operate a firm or affiliate as an associate broker. A community association manager performs the narrower management activities authorized by that credential on behalf of a broker. A firm license identifies the brokerage entity and its qualifying broker.

Which official Georgia topic does this cover?

Individual and firm license classifications under Georgia real estate license law.

What is the Georgia-specific distinction?

The Rule

Associate broker is a broker-level individual license used while affiliated under another qualifying broker. It is not a salesperson license with a title upgrade, and it does not make the associate broker the qualifying broker of the firm.

The complete lesson

The 75-hour salesperson route is the entry path for broad real estate brokerage under supervision. The 60-hour broker route adds experience conditions, while the 25-hour CAM route is limited to community association management.

A broker license and a firm license answer different questions. The individual has professional authority; the firm is the licensed business through which brokerage is conducted.

Choose the credential by intended activity, not prestige. A person who only manages community associations may consider CAM, while sales, leasing, and general brokerage require the broader pathway.

What should you do, in order?

  1. Write down the brokerage activities you intend to perform.
  2. Match those activities to salesperson, CAM, or broker authority.
  3. Check education and experience prerequisites.
  4. Understand active affiliation or firm requirements.
  5. Use the correct PSI and GREC application category.

Worked example: Broker versus associate broker

Kai holds a broker license but joins an established firm and does not become its qualifying broker.

Kai practices as an associate broker under the firm's qualifying broker. The individual credential is broker level, while the firm role remains supervised affiliation.

Common traps

  • Assuming CAM authorizes every sales activity.
  • Treating an associate broker as the firm's qualifying broker.
  • Confusing the individual's license with the firm's license.

Original knowledge check

1. Which licensee generally practices under a sponsoring broker?

  1. Salesperson
  2. Qualifying broker only
  3. Firm
  4. School
Show answer and explanation

Salesperson The salesperson's active brokerage authority is exercised on behalf of a broker.

2. What is an associate broker?

  1. An unlicensed assistant
  2. A broker-level licensee affiliated under another broker
  3. A CAM trainee
  4. A firm license
Show answer and explanation

A broker-level licensee affiliated under another broker Associate broker describes the role of a broker licensee who is not serving as the firm's qualifying broker.

Mastery tracking

  • □ I can distinguish all individual licenses from a firm license.
  • □ I know which role requires broker supervision.
  • □ I selected the credential that matches the intended work.

Recommended next lesson

Study the Georgia broker route. Follow the route that matches your current decision instead of reading licensing pages at random.

Georgia Real Estate License Types: questions answered

Facts checked against the current PSI Candidate Information Bulletin and GREC sources. Last reviewed August 2, 2026. Editorial standards.

What is the short answer on georgia real estate license types?

A salesperson practices for a broker. A broker may operate a firm or affiliate as an associate broker. A community association manager performs the narrower management activities authorized by that credential on behalf of a broker. A firm license identifies the brokerage entity and its qualifying broker.

What is specific to Georgia?

Associate broker is a broker-level individual license used while affiliated under another qualifying broker. It is not a salesperson license with a title upgrade, and it does not make the associate broker the qualifying broker of the firm.

Which official topic controls this answer?

Individual and firm license classifications under Georgia real estate license law.

How do I know I have mastered this topic?

I can distinguish all individual licenses from a firm license. I know which role requires broker supervision. I selected the credential that matches the intended work.