Florida added 64,840 new real estate licensees in 2025, a 42% year-over-year surge and the highest annual total found in the current state licensing file.
However, a data report from Casa Academy, a Florida real estate school that publishes original aggregate research about the state’s real estate licensing market, determined that 43% of the 2025 cohort now has inactive license records.
According to the report, 37,137 members of the 2025 cohort currently have active license records, while 17,568 are voluntarily inactive and 10,135 are involuntarily inactive. Furthermore, 28% of active Florida licensees earned their licenses on or after Jan. 1, 2024, and that concentration is highest in several Central Florida counties, including Osceola, Polk, Hillsborough, Pasco and Orange. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Those combined counties account for more than one-third of the state’s active license records.
A separate renewal analysis found that 162,112 active licenses are scheduled to expire in 2027, representing more than half of the active records in the dataset.
“The number of people entering Florida real estate is extraordinary, but the more important story is how many remain active after earning the license,” said Shie Gabbai, founder of Casa Academy. “We built this report so journalists, researchers, brokerages and prospective agents can see both sides of the market.”
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