Nevada advertising rules, for your website.
Your license number, with its designation prefix, in every advertisement, social media included.
What Nevada actually requires
Nevada is one of the few states that requires the license number in every advertisement offering licensed services, including the designation prefix for salesperson, broker-salesperson, or broker. The requirement has applied to all media, social posts included, since July 2019. The brokerage firm's name must also be clearly identified with prominence, judged by type style, size, color, and location.
The universal license-number requirement took effect in July 2019.
Regulator
Nevada Real Estate Division, under the Nevada Real Estate Commission
Citations
- NRS 645.315(1) and (2)
- NAC 645.610(1)(b), (c), (e)
- NAC 645.611 (teams)
We build websites, we are not lawyers, and this is not legal advice. Rules change. Confirm the current text with the Nevada Real Estate Division, under the Nevada Real Estate Commission before you launch.
What that means on the page
The rule as a set of decisions your designer and developer have to make before launch, not after.
License number with designation prefix
In every advertisement, conspicuous and easily identifiable. Leading zeros and entity suffixes may be omitted.
Brokerage name with prominence
Judged by style, size and color of the type and by location on the page, not by a fixed fraction.
No advertising under your own name alone
Salespersons and broker-salespersons advertise under the supervision of, and in the name of, their brokerage.
Team names carry a member's last name
A team or group name must contain the last name of at least one team member, with the firm name still displayed prominently.
What catches people out here
These are the parts that do not transfer from another state's template.
The other license-number state
Of the fourteen states we have verified, only California and Nevada require a license number in web advertising, and Nevada goes further by requiring the designation prefix too. Texas sits at the opposite pole, barred by statute from requiring one. Three states, three different answers to the same question.
Franchise offices carry an extra sentence
Advertising under a franchise name requires the licensed name plus an acknowledgment that each office is independently owned and operated. If you are leaving a franchise, this is one line you finally get to delete.
For-sale-by-owner ads are fenced
A licensee generally may not put their own name or number on a for-sale-by-owner ad unless they hold an ownership interest and add owner-broker or owner-agent language. An anti-circumvention rule most states do not spell out.
This page covers state advertising rules only. Fair housing, MLS display rules, and consent for lead forms apply everywhere and are covered in our brokerage website requirements guide.
The rules genuinely differ
California requires a license number on your site. Texas law bars its commission from requiring one. Never assume a neighbouring state's template applies.
Do not see your state? We add one only after verifying its rule against the actual statute, because a confident guess about a licensing rule is worse than no page. Ask us and we will read yours with you.
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We read the Nevada rule as part of the build, so the brokerage name, identification and disclosures land where they belong the first time.