Moving to Real in Canada: The Six Provinces, the License Transfer and the Fees

Where in Canada does Real operate?

In six provinces. Real's annual information form, filed in March 2026, says Real launched in Alberta in 2021 and works in five Canadian provinces, and the provincial laws it lists as applying to Real's business are those of Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan was the newest of the five: Real began operating there in October 2025.

New Brunswick came next. Real's results release of 6 August 2026 says Real announced on 2 June 2026 that it had expanded into New Brunswick, its sixth Canadian province, and its report for that quarter describes a licensed brokerage in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces.

Real's help center keeps a license guide for each of those six provinces, in a section of its own for Canada, and has none for Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador or the three territories.

How do you join Real from Canada?

The way an agent in the US does, in the same order. Real's join article has you fill in the application, with your sponsor's name and email if you name one, sign the ICA and pay the application fee. Your license moves after that, by your province's own process, and each of the six provincial guides puts Real's application first.

Ontario's guide lists what to have ready: your license numbers and expiry dates, your MLS and board, your sponsor's name and email, a photo of the front of your driver's license and payment details for the fee. Alberta's guide asks for a photo of your ID next to your face, which it says is a requirement of the province's regulator.

Real's onboarding team then reaches out within 48 hours with next steps. Where your old brokerage has to release your license first, Real waits for that before it accepts the license.

How does your license move in each province?

Through the province's own regulator, and Real's guide for each province says who starts the transfer. The table sets out the six as Real's guides described them on the date each was last edited. For anything a guide leaves out, such as the regulator's own fees and processing times, check with the regulator it names.

The board and MLS move is yours to make in every province: the guides for Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan each say you are responsible for updating your board and MLS membership, and every guide lists the forms its boards use.

What does Real charge in Canada?

Real charges Canadian agents under a fee schedule of their own, which Real marks for Canadian agents only and last edited on 31 August 2026. Its cap is $15,000 CAD a year, and it lists no monthly fees. Every other amount on it is in the dated table of Real's fees on the page about the money at Real, beside the US schedule.

What does a Canadian agent set up that a US agent does not?

Sales tax, for a start. Real's article on GST, HST and PST says Real pays out the taxable income and agents remit their own GST or HST to the Canada Revenue Agency. Your tax slip is a T4A, which you download in reZEN, Real's agent platform, and an agent licensed in more than one province gets a T4A for each one.

A personal real estate corporation, if you work through one, goes on your reZEN profile so that reporting, tax information and payments run through it. What the province asks for first differs, and Real's article on setting one up sends Ontario agents to RECO's checklist, British Columbia agents to BCFSA and Manitoba agents to the Manitoba Securities Commission.

Real's stock is priced in US dollars. Its article on currency says your shares show in US dollars at the Nasdaq market price and are converted to Canadian dollars only when you sell them and the money reaches your Canadian bank account. Its article on stock and taxes in Canada says shares bought through the stock purchase plan count as income on your T4A in the year they are bought.

What does Real not publish for Canada?

Some of its own Canadian help articles. Real's British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario guides each link a page on managing your listings on that province's MLS, and none of the three is public: Real's help center said on 2 October 2026 that it could not find them. The Canadian versions of Real's Elite Agent Program and cap rules, which its post-cap fee article links, are not public either.

Each province's forms, templates and resources sit in Workvivo, the online community Real runs for its agents, which asks for a sign-in, and Real's provincial guides tell agents to bookmark those pages.