Referrals Outside Florida
Florida Real Estate Sales Associate · The Keyes Company
I hold a Florida real estate license and nothing else. If your move is happening in another state, the honest answer is that I am not the right person to represent you — but I can put you in front of someone who is.
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Why You’re Reading This
Real estate licensing is state by state. My license, 3623732, is issued by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and it authorises me to work under The Keyes Company on Florida property. It does not authorise me to advise on, list, show, or negotiate a home in Georgia, New York, Texas, or anywhere else.
Plenty of agents blur that line. I would rather tell you plainly and then do the useful thing: find you a good agent in your market through The Keyes Company’s referral relationships, and stay involved enough to make sure you are looked after.
How a Referral Works
Tell me where and when
City, timeline, whether you’re buying or selling, and anything that matters to you in an agent. Five minutes on the phone is usually enough.
I find the match
My brokerage submits the referral through its network and I look for someone whose actual experience fits your situation — not simply whoever answers first.
You decide
You meet them, you interview them, and you are free to say no. A referral is an introduction, not an obligation, and you are never required to use anyone I suggest.
What You Should Know First
Referral disclosure
- I am licensed in Florida only. I will not act as your real estate agent in any other state, and nothing on this page is an offer to represent you outside Florida. Your agent in your state will be licensed there and will represent you under that state’s law.
- A referral fee may be paid. If a referred transaction closes, the receiving brokerage may pay a referral fee to The Keyes Company, and The Keyes Company may in turn compensate me. Under Section 475.42(1)(d), Florida Statutes, a sales associate may be paid only by his registered broker, so any payment reaches me that way and no other.
- It costs you nothing. You are not charged for a referral. A referral fee is paid between brokerages out of the commission on the transaction and does not increase what you pay.
- Commissions are negotiable. Broker compensation is not set by law and is negotiable between you and the brokerage that represents you, in every state.
- No guarantee. I can introduce you to a licensed professional and give you my honest read. I cannot promise any outcome, price, timeline, or level of service, and I do not supervise or control the agent or brokerage you choose.
- Real estate brokerage referrals only. This page covers real estate brokerage referrals only. It is not a referral to any lender, title company, insurer, or other settlement service provider.
- Equal Housing Opportunity. Referrals are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, disability, or any other class protected by federal, state, or local fair housing law.
Start Here
Send me the details and I will start looking. If your move is into Florida rather than out of it, skip the referral — that one is mine, and my Keyes site is the place to begin.
Both links open my page on The Keyes Company website, where any information you enter is collected and processed by The Keyes Company under its privacy policy. This page itself collects nothing — see my Privacy Policy.
Who I refer to
I do not keep a list of preferred companies to hand you, and I would be sceptical of an agent who did. A name that is always the answer is a name that is paying for the position, not one that was chosen for your situation.
What happens instead is that the referral is submitted through The Keyes Company, and a receiving brokerage licensed in your state is identified for your specific transaction. I look at what that brokerage and that agent actually work on — price band, property type, whether relocations are routine for them — and I speak to them before your name is passed along.
Three things stay true whoever it turns out to be:
- They will hold a current licence in the state where your transaction happens, and they will represent you under that state’s law — not under Florida’s, and not under mine.
- Any referral fee is paid brokerage to brokerage, out of the commission on a closed transaction. It costs you nothing and it does not increase what you pay. Under Section 475.42(1)(d), Florida Statutes, any share reaching me comes from my broker and from nowhere else.
- You are under no obligation to use them. Interview them, interview someone else, or decline entirely. If the fit is wrong, tell me and I will go back and look again.
As referral relationships are formalised, the brokerages involved will be named here, together with their licence number and the regulator that issued it, so you can verify them yourself rather than take my word for it.