Real estate licensee in CA-BC
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The sharpest sentence found in this entire index belongs to the regulator, about its own search: this is an unofficial search. It shows only the current licence period, not the licensing history, and anyone needing an official answer is told to telephone or email. The same authority runs a consumer fraud campaign telling the public to search before they sign, pointing at the search it has labelled unofficial. Meanwhile it has agreed to give a regional realtor association on-demand access to its licensing data in exchange for transaction data. The industry body gets a feed. The public gets a form and a disclaimer.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | No | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | No | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Give every licence a stable address
The register exists but lives behind a search form, so there is nothing to link to, nothing to archive and nothing to attest against. A permanent address per licence costs little and moves this row to grade C on its own.
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.