Real Estate Brokerages in Monroe County, Florida

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

How big the Monroe County market actually is

Florida's licensing department publishes every real estate licensee in the state each week, with the county on the record. Counted from that file on September 22, 2026, Monroe County holds 1,208 active sales associates, 245 active brokers and 197 broker associates, working through 194 registered brokerage firms and 47 branch offices. That makes it the 35th largest of Florida's 67 counties by working agent count.

A market this size behaves differently from the metros. With 194 firms and 1,208 working agents, the broker you interview will very likely know the broker you interviewed last week. That cuts both ways: reputations are reliable, and so is the speed at which word travels about an agent who leaves badly.

Counting the inactive licenses as well, 1,641 people hold a Monroe County sales associate license, and that gap is the subject of the next section, because it is the most misread number in Florida real estate.

The 433 licenses in Monroe County that nobody is using

433 of Monroe County's sales associate licenses are inactive, which is 26.4% of every license issued to the county. An inactive license is not expired and not revoked. It belongs to someone who passed the state exam, paid for the course, and is not currently registered under an employing broker.

That rate is low for Florida. Statewide, 32.4% of sales associate licenses sit inactive, so Monroe County runs 6.0 points below the state average. Fewer people here quit quietly, which generally indicates a market where agents who start are able to keep going. It also means the pool of already-licensed people a brokerage can recruit from is smaller than the headline number suggests.

If you are one of those 433, reactivating is usually cheaper and faster than people assume, and it does not mean retaking the state exam so long as the license has not been null and void. What it does require is an employing broker willing to take you on with a gap in your production history, which is a conversation worth having openly rather than working around.

Where Monroe County's agents actually work from

Counted by the address each licensee has on file with the state, the working agents in Monroe County are concentrated as follows.

• Key West: 564 licensees
• Key Largo: 350 licensees
• Tavernier: 170 licensees
• Marathon: 157 licensees
• Islamorada: 117 licensees
• Big Pine Key: 72 licensees

Key West anchors the county without dominating it. That usually means a handful of genuine brokerage centers rather than one. Where a firm is headquartered and where its listings actually come from are frequently two different towns in a county shaped like this, which is why the address on a sign says less here than people assume.

How crowded Monroe County is, measured rather than claimed

Dividing the county's 1,208 active agents by its 194 registered brokerage firms gives 6.2 agents per firm, against a Florida average of 7.3.

That puts Monroe County close to the middle of the state, which means the range within the county matters more than the county average does. You will find both kinds of firm here, and the difference between them will be larger than the difference between this county and the next one. Treat the average as context, not as an answer.

One more number worth having before an interview: there are 245 active brokers in Monroe County, or roughly one for every 4.9 working sales associates. Florida law puts your license under exactly one employing broker at a time, and that broker carries legal responsibility for supervising your work. The ratio is a crude proxy for how much of that supervision is likely to be real rather than nominal.

Whether Monroe County is growing its own agents

92 of the county's licenses were first issued in the last twelve months, which is 7.6% of the active agent count, against 8.4% statewide.

That tracks the state closely, which means Monroe County is replacing its agents at the ordinary Florida rate. Set against the 26.4% of licenses here sitting inactive, the shape of the industry becomes visible: a steady stream in at one end, and a larger pool quietly stopping at the other.

Which association and MLS you join in Monroe County

This catches people out, so it is worth being plain about it: your REALTOR association and MLS are decided by your brokerage's office location, not by where you live, and the dues come with them. Two agents in the same town can end up in different associations because their offices sit on different sides of a boundary.

In Monroe County the local association is the Florida Keys Board of REALTORS, with the Key West Association of REALTORS and the Marathon and Lower Keys Association of REALTORS also serving the county. Which association and MLS a given licensee ends up in still follows their office address rather than the county line, and in a county bordering a larger market an office may hold membership in more than one MLS, which changes what inventory is visible to that agent.

Worth knowing because it is routinely underestimated: association dues, MLS fees, lockbox or key service, and the state and national REALTOR dues are four separate line items on four different renewal calendars. A single quoted figure is almost never all four, which is why the annual cost of holding a Florida license tends to surprise people in their second year rather than their first.

How to read these Monroe County numbers

Published agent counts for Florida vary by tens of thousands depending on what the author counted, so here is what each figure above does and does not tell you.

1. The inactive share is the most informative number on the page. Monroe County's 26.4% represents people who completed the course, passed the state exam and paid the fees, and are not currently registered under an employing broker. A high rate indicates a market a lot of people tried and stopped in. It is also, read the other way, the size of the already-licensed pool in the county.
2. Firm count overstates choice everywhere in Florida. Monroe County's 194 registered firms are not 194 offices with staff, floor time and a training calendar. A large share of registered firms in any Florida county is a single broker, so treat the number as a count of registrations rather than of workplaces.
3. Agents per firm is a ratio, not a verdict. At 6.2 against a state average of 7.3, the figure describes how consolidated the county is. The range inside a county is almost always wider than the gap between two counties.
4. Broker count is a supervision proxy. Florida law puts every license under exactly one employing broker who is legally responsible for supervising that work. Monroe County's 245 active brokers against its 1,208 working agents is a crude read on how thinly that responsibility is spread.
5. Address of record is not where someone works. The town figures above come from each licensee's address on file with the state, which is usually but not always where they do business.

All of it is counted from Florida's weekly license extract rather than estimated, and it is free to reuse with attribution. What none of these figures can tell you is which brokerage is well run, because that is not in any public record and no honest page will claim otherwise.

Where Adams, Cameron & Co. fits, and where it does not

Straight answer, because the alternative wastes your time: our offices are in Volusia and Flagler counties, on Florida's east coast between Ormond Beach and Palm Coast. We have been a brokerage there since 1963. We are not in Monroe County, and a Florida license is registered under one employing broker at a time, so we are not the answer to "which brokerage should I join here."

This page exists because these numbers are not published anywhere else county by county. Florida releases the raw license file weekly and nobody counts it, so we do, and we publish it for whoever needs it. That is the whole reason it is here.

If you are moving to the Volusia or Flagler area, or you are one of the 433 people holding an inactive Monroe County license and thinking about starting again somewhere new, that is a different conversation and we are glad to have it.