Brokerage & Agency

Unlicensed Assistant

A person who performs clerical support for a brokerage but may not perform acts requiring a real estate license.

An unlicensed assistant may perform clerical and administrative support: scheduling, paperwork handling, and repeating factual information already published in a listing. What they may not do is perform an act requiring a license.

Sec. 1101.351(a) provides that a person may not act as a broker or sales agent without a license, and Sec. 1101.002 defines the acts that constitute acting as a broker, including negotiating and providing certain value analyses. No amount of broker approval authorises an unlicensed person to perform a licensed act.

On the exam

The line is what is being provided, not who is speaking. Published facts are clerical; opinions on value and negotiation are licensed activity.

Exam trap

Assuming an unlicensed assistant may not speak to the public at all. The exam rewards the precise line, not the cautious one.

Tested in

Texas Agency & Intermediary (9% of the exam)

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