Do You Have to Retake Any Education When You Switch Brokerages in Florida?

Updated August 2026 · Reviewed by Adams, Cameron & Co.

This question usually comes from a reasonable place. Getting licensed involved a lot of coursework, renewal involves more, and it is fair to wonder whether a brokerage change resets something. It does not, and the reason why is worth understanding, because it clarifies how the whole system fits together.

Why nothing resets

When you change brokerages in Florida, the state is updating a single field on your existing license record: your employing broker. Your license number does not change. Your licensure date does not change. You are not applying for anything new.

Education requirements in Florida attach to your license and your renewal cycle, not to your employment. Since neither the license nor the cycle changes, nothing about your education obligation changes either. Our page on transferring your license to a new broker covers the transaction itself.

What specifically stays intact

Your post-license education. The 45-hour course for sales associates, or 60 hours for brokers, is a one-time requirement tied to your first renewal following initial licensure. Once completed, it is completed permanently, for the rest of your career, across any number of brokerages. Our page on the post-license course covers that requirement in full.

Your continuing education hours in progress. If you have completed 8 of your 14 hours this cycle and then move, you have completed 8 hours. Those are credited against your license, reported to the department by your education provider, and unaffected by which brokerage you sit at. You need the remaining 6, not a fresh 14.

Your renewal date. Set by when you were originally licensed, on a two-year cycle ending March 31 or September 30. Moving does not shift it forward or backward. Our page on finding your expiration date covers how to confirm yours.

Your renewal requirement. Whether you owe post-license education or 14 hours of continuing education depends on which renewal you are facing, which is a function of your licensure history, not your employer.

The genuine trap: nobody is tracking you mid-move

Since nothing resets, the risk here is not extra education. It is the opposite, an agent who assumes their obligations are somehow suspended or handled during a transition and quietly falls behind.

Your old brokerage stops tracking you. Your new one does not yet have your history. And the single notice Florida statute requires the department to send 90 days before expiration goes to whatever address and email the state has on file, which may be an office you have just left.

So the practical advice during a move is the reverse of what people expect. You do not need to retake anything. You do need to confirm, yourself, where you stand: look up your expiration date and current status in the state licensing portal at MyFloridaLicense.com, check which hours have actually been reported under your license, and update your contact information while you are there. Our page on switching before or after renewal covers the sequencing in more depth.

What a new brokerage may ask of you

This is separate from licensing and it is legitimate. Most brokerages have onboarding for incoming agents: systems and CRM training, compliance and paperwork standards, brand and marketing orientation, and often coaching or business planning for agents joining at scale.

Whether that is valuable or a formality varies enormously, and it is worth asking about specifically rather than assuming it will be either. A brokerage with real onboarding for experienced agents, as opposed to a new-agent curriculum they run everyone through regardless of experience, is offering something different. Our page on a fair onboarding timeline covers what reasonable looks like.

Some brokerages also provide continuing education in house as an agent benefit. That is worth knowing about, because it is a real cost offset covered on our page about what renewal really costs. It is a benefit, not a requirement, and it does not change what the state expects of you.

Association and MLS orientation

One more category that is neither state licensing nor brokerage onboarding. If your move takes you into a different local Realtor association, that association may have its own orientation or education for new members, and MLS systems commonly require training before granting access.

Locally this matters more than it would elsewhere, because Volusia County is split across multiple associations that do not all operate on the same MLS. A move across the county can mean a different association and a different MLS system, which means genuinely learning a new platform rather than transferring a login. Our page on MLS access when you switch brokerages here covers what that actually involves, and our page on which association you join maps the local landscape.

None of this is a state licensing requirement, but it is real time in your first weeks and worth planning for.

What if you are moving into Florida from another state?

Different question entirely, and worth flagging so it does not get confused with this one. Bringing a license from another state into Florida is not a brokerage change, it is a licensing matter with its own requirements, which our page on transferring a license to Florida covers. This page is about an already-licensed Florida agent moving between Florida brokerages.

The short version

The state asks nothing of you when you change brokerages. Your education history, your renewal date and your requirement all carry forward untouched, because your license carries forward untouched.

What varies is what a brokerage asks and what an association requires, and those are worth asking about directly before you move, because they are the things that determine how quickly you are actually productive at the new place.