Register index

Real estate agent in AU-NSW

What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.

CGrade
JurisdictionNew South Wales, Australia
TradeReal estate agent
AuthorityNSW Fair Trading
GradeC  Public page per licence, stable address, no bulk export
Checked9 November 2026
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What was found

Property licences appear in the same published set as home building. The individual extract is a spreadsheet; the corporation extract is published as a PDF. A current licence extract in PDF is machine readable in name only, and the gap between those two formats is the whole argument of RVW-5 in a single dataset.

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What it publishes

CheckAnswerWhy it matters
A public page per licenceYesGives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against.
A bulk exportPartialLets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it.
Machine readableNoA CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all.
SignedNoMakes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it.
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The next step

Export the list

A page per licence is already most of the work. What is missing is the same data as one file, at a stable address, refreshed on whatever cadence the register already runs. That is tier A of RVW-5 and it moves this row to grade B.

A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.

If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.

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Elsewhere in the index

Same trade, other jurisdictions

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