Estate agent in SE
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The best statutory language in the index on the question Queensland refuses. The ordinance requires the inspectorate to keep the estate agent register by automated processing, and states that its purposes include supervision and information to the public about agents who are, or have been, registered. Past registration is not an awkward disclosure to be avoided; it is a stated purpose of the register. Around seven and a half thousand agents are registered, the search is free, registration is required in order to work at all, and the inspectorate has run a sweep of every agent in the country against police and enforcement records, after which several lost their registration. No file and no interface, but the hardest argument, that history belongs in the record, was settled here by regulation.
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.