Is the 25-hour CAM course enough to sell houses?

No. CAM is a separate GREC license. Selling real estate requires the 75-hour salesperson prelicense, the exam, and a broker affiliation.

Does Florida reciprocity get me a Georgia license automatically?

No. Florida mutual recognition is a Florida inbound path. GREC still has its own exam and 75-hour rule unless a GREC education-recognition option applies.

Georgia Salesperson License Requirements (2026)

Required education: 75 instructional hours (GREC Rule 520-2-.04)
Exam fee: See current GREC/PSI candidate handbook (commonly about $119–$121; pay the current PSI amount)
Published fees: $170 license fee if you apply fast, plus PSI exam fee and 75-hour tuition
Typical timeline: Typically 2–4 months after starting the 75-hour course

What to know first

Georgia licenses a salesperson, a broker, and a community association manager who is neither of those things. If you intend to sell homes, the 25-hour CAM prelicense course is the wrong course. Salesperson prelicense is a minimum of 75 instructional hours under GREC Rule 520-2-.04; breaks do not count, and graded exercises and tests may not exceed 10 percent of required instruction time. That 10-percent testing cap is a Georgia school-compliance rule, so a generic 75-hour course from another state may not meet it.

The sequence is exam-then-apply, closer to California than to Texas. You complete the 75-hour course (or qualifying college hours, or 75 hours approved by another jurisdiction), sit the GREC exam through the Commission's contracted vendor (currently PSI; always confirm on grec.state.ga.us), and then apply for the license. GREC materials long published a $170 license fee if you apply within three months of passing and $340 if you apply after three months but within twelve; after twelve months you retake the exam. Bring a Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) report to the test center; it must be recent (schools commonly cite a 60-day window). This in-person criminal-history report is a Georgia requirement; it is not the IdentoGO fingerprinting used for TREC or California's DRE Live Scan.

A salesperson must affiliate with an active Georgia broker to practice. You may apply inactive without a sponsoring-broker statement. You must then complete the 25-hour salesperson postlicense course in your first year; if you do not, your license lapses. GREC's postlicense exam passing score is commonly 70 percent at the school. After that, CE is 36 hours every four years, including 3 hours of license law, with renewal on the last day of your birth month. Florida will mutually recognize a Georgia licensee who is not a Florida resident and who passes the 40-question Florida law exam; Georgia will not automatically treat a FREC 63-hour Course I as its 75-hour prelicense. The Recovery Fund (Education, Research, and Recovery) is a GREC consumer-protection statute, not a bonding requirement you post at application.

Your path to the license

Follow these steps in order. Deadlines and affiliation requirements can make a passed exam unusable if they are missed.

Complete the 75-hour GREC salesperson prelicense

Not the 25-hour CAM course.
Obtain a recent GCIC report and schedule PSI

Pay the current exam fee. Take both the national and Georgia sections.
Apply for the license within 3 months if you want the $170 fee

After 3 months and before 12, the published fee doubles to $340. After 12, retake the exam.
Affiliate with a Georgia broker to go active

Or remain inactive.
Finish the 25-hour postlicense in year one

Then 36 hours of CE every four years, including 3 hours of license law, by the last day of your birth month.

How long the 75-hour course takes

Coursework is usually the longest step you control. Weeks below are classroom or online hours only; add application processing, fingerprint clearance, and exam scheduling from the roadmap above.

Part-time: 8 weeksabout 10 hrs/week
Steady: 4 weeksabout 20 hrs/week
Full-time: 2 weeksabout 40 hrs/week

Overall estimate from our source review: Typically 2–4 months after starting the 75-hour course

Education and eligibility

Minimum age: 18 years old
Identification: A Social Security number is required. An ITIN is not confirmed as a substitute.
Residency and identification: Georgia residency is not required to test. Licensees who become nonresidents must cooperate with GREC investigations. You may sit the salesperson exam at 17; the license cannot activate until 18.
Qualifying education: GREC-approved salesperson prelicense with a proctored school exam, or 10 quarter / 6 semester hours of real-estate coursework from an accredited college, or 75 hours approved by another state's regulator. Breaks do not count toward the 75.
Education or filing deadline: Apply for the license within 12 months of passing the state exam or retake it. The $170 versus $340 split turns on the three-month mark.
After licensing: 25-hour GREC-approved salesperson postlicense course in the first year of licensure, with a school exam (commonly 70 percent). Failure lapses the license. The course can count toward a portion of the first 36-hour CE cycle — confirm the current GREC credit rule.
Character review: GCIC criminal-history review. Convictions and licensing sanctions on the report require extra documentation at the test center.
Background process: A GCIC report is presented at the PSI test center. It must be recent. This is a Georgia criminal-history product, not an FBI-only IdentoGO print for another agency.
Experience: No experience required. Affiliation with an active Georgia broker is required to practice.
Broker affiliation: Required to practice. Inactive licensure is available without a sponsoring-broker statement.

Documents to prepare

75-hour completion reported to PSI
GCIC report at the test center

The licensing exam

The GREC salesperson exam, as described in the Commission's candidate handbook, has a national portion and a Georgia portion and is delivered by the contracted vendor (PSI). Commonly published structure: 100 national items and 52 Georgia items, four hours, with a 75 percent (or scaled equivalent) passing standard on each section — confirm the item counts and current scaled passing score in the handbook linked from grec.state.ga.us, because third-party sources disagree on 75 percent versus scaled 72. Georgia items test O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 40, BRRETA brokerage relationships (Georgia is not a Florida transaction-broker state), trust accounts, and the Recovery Fund. Georgia is not a community-property state.

PSI (confirm on grec.state.ga.us) · Fee: See current GREC/PSI candidate handbook (commonly about $119–$121; pay the current PSI amount)

Part	Questions	Minutes	Pass
National	100	—	75%
Georgia state	52	—	75%

Retake through PSI. After 12 months without a license application, the exam must be repeated. Confirm waiting periods in the current handbook.

What to study

GREC candidate handbook

GREC / PSI

Exam fees, GCIC instructions, and $170/$340 license-fee split.
BRRETA

Official Code of Georgia

The agency statute the Georgia section tests.

Application costs

These are commission or testing-vendor amounts we can cite. School tuition and optional preparation products are private-market prices.

Fee	Amount
Application	$170
Initial license	$170

GREC handbook: $170 if applied within 3 months of passing; $340 if between 3 and 12 months. That amount covers the first four-year term. The exam fee is paid to PSI at the amount in the current handbook. Renewal fees are set by GREC (online and mail amounts differ; pay the amount shown in the portal).

Published state fees

$340

Application, exam, initial-license, and fingerprint amounts cited above. Excludes school tuition, association dues, and MLS fees.

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Commission	Georgia Real Estate Commission O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 40; GREC Rules Chapter 520
Pre-licensing	75 instructional hours (GREC Rule 520-2-.04) GREC-approved salesperson prelicense with a proctored school exam, or 10 quarter / 6 semester hours of real-estate coursework from an accredited college, or 75 hours approved by another state's regulator. Breaks do not count toward the 75. Apply for the license within 12 months of passing the state exam or retake it. The $170 versus $340 split turns on the three-month mark.
Post-license education	25-hour GREC-approved salesperson postlicense course in the first year of licensure, with a school exam (commonly 70 percent). Failure lapses the license. The course can count toward a portion of the first 36-hour CE cycle — confirm the current GREC credit rule.
Sponsoring broker	Required to practice. Inactive licensure is available without a sponsoring-broker statement.
Fingerprints	GCIC report at the test center, not a California Live Scan. If the report shows history, bring the supporting documents the handbook names.
CE / renewal	36 hours every four years, including 3 hours of GREC-approved license law, due by the last day of the birth month. First-year 25-hour postlicense is separate and can lapse the license if missed.
Recovery fund	GREC administers the Real Estate Education, Research, and Recovery Fund. Consumer payments are capped per transaction in the statute (commonly taught as $25,000 per transaction — confirm O.C.G.A. § 43-40-22 before relying on a figure from class). A payout can revoke the licensee until the Fund is repaid.

Mistakes that delay applicants

Waiting more than three months to apply

The published license fee doubles from $170 to $340 after three months, and your exam result expires at twelve months.
Stale GCIC at PSI

If your report is older than the handbook allows, you will be turned away from the test center.
Missing 25-hour postlicense

GREC lapses the license. (Florida voids the license in the same situation.) In neither state can you fix this by paying a late fee.

Reciprocity and recognition

Partner / path	Accepted exam	Conditions
Florida	Florida 40-question law exam (30 to pass) when using FREC mutual recognition into Florida	Nonresident of Florida; active Georgia license obtained by education and exam. Georgia inbound from Florida is not an automatic waiver of GREC's 75-hour course — read GREC nonresident rules rather than assuming the arrangement works both ways.

GREC will consider 75 hours of another state's approved prelicense toward exam eligibility. That is education recognition, not a license compact with California or Texas.

Renewal and staying active

36 hours every four years, including 3 hours of GREC-approved license law, due by the last day of the birth month. First-year 25-hour postlicense is separate and can lapse the license if missed.

Applicant checklist

Complete 75 instructional hours at a GREC-approved school
Order your GCIC report so that it is still recent on exam day
Pass PSI and apply within 3 months for the $170 fee
Affiliate with a Georgia broker
Finish 25-hour postlicense before the first anniversary

How Georgia is different

Georgia's 75-hour prelicense matches Pennsylvania and North Carolina and is heavier than Florida's 63, lighter than Texas's 180. The 25-hour first-year postlicense is lighter than Florida's 45 (which can make a license null and void) and North Carolina's 90 (required to remove provisional status and remain eligible for active status). Florida mutual recognition expressly names Georgia. North Carolina will typically still require its state exam section. Do not assume another neighboring state offers reciprocity simply because it shares a border.

Georgia vs neighboring states

Georgia Real Estate Salesperson License compared with nearby states
Jurisdiction	License title	Pre-license hours	Exam vendor	Exam questions	Exam fee	Published state fees	Renewal cycle	Min. age
Georgia (this guide)	Salesperson	75	PSI	152	See handbook	$340	4 yr	18
Alabama	Salesperson	60	Pearson VUE	120	$73	$368	2 yr	19
Florida	Sales Associate	63	Pearson VUE	100	$36.75	$99.50	2 yr	18
North Carolina	Provisional Broker	75	Pearson VUE	140	$63	$273	1 yr	18
South Carolina	Associate	90	PSI	120	$67	$142	2 yr	18
Tennessee	Affiliate Broker	90	PSI	120	$63	$245	2 yr	18
Texas	Sales Agent	180	Pearson VUE	135	$43	$286	2 yr	18

Hours are the pre-license total printed in each guide; states that count credits or named courses show “See guide.” Published state fees add the application, exam, initial-license, and fingerprint amounts the guide can cite — tuition is not included.

Frequently asked questions

Is the 25-hour CAM course enough to sell houses?: No. CAM is a separate GREC license. Selling real estate requires the 75-hour salesperson prelicense, the exam, and a broker affiliation.
Does Florida reciprocity get me a Georgia license automatically?: No. Florida mutual recognition is a Florida inbound path. GREC still has its own exam and 75-hour rule unless a GREC education-recognition option applies.

Fingerprints and Background Denials in Real Estate Licensing
Each commission names a fingerprint vendor. A conviction is usually a review, not an automatic bar. Non-disclosure is the faster denial.
The Cheapest Real Estate License Among These Markets
New York’s $15 exam and $65 license look cheap until you count 77 hours. Georgia doubles after three months. Board fees are not the real bill.

Primary Sources

Regulatory requirements on this page are drawn from the official board, statute, and exam-provider materials listed below.

Verified 2026-09-02 · Next scheduled review 2026-12-01

Update history

October 8, 2026 Rewrote the guide text for readability and added state comparison tables. No requirements, fees, or deadlines changed.
September 2, 2026 Requirements, fees, and deadlines checked against the primary sources cited on this page.

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