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To get a Florida real estate license in Orlando: meet F.S. 475.17 eligibility, complete 63 hours of approved pre-license education, file the DBPR RE-1 application with the $83.75 fee, complete Livescan fingerprinting, pass the Pearson VUE state exam (100 questions, 75% to pass), and activate with a sponsoring broker. Standard path runs 3 to 5 months at $400 to $700 in fees before exam prep.

$400–700
Total cost before exam prep
3–5 mo
Standard timeline (6–10 wk for mutual recognition)
~50%
First-time pass rate

ORLANDO LICENSE CHECKLIST

STEP 1
Confirm eligibility

F.S. 475.17: 18+, high-school diploma or equivalent, Social Security number, and DBPR good-character review.

STEP 2
63-hour pre-license course

In-person, livestream, or self-paced online. Climer School, Bert Rodgers, Bob Hogue are the dominant Florida-focused providers.

STEP 3
DBPR RE-1 application

$83.75 fee. File in parallel with the course to save 3–5 weeks of total timeline.

STEP 4
Livescan fingerprints

$50–75 at any Florida-approved vendor. 90-day validity window with DBPR.

STEP 5
Pearson VUE state exam

100 questions, 3.5 hours, 75% to pass, $36.75 sitting fee. ~50% first-time pass rate.

STEP 6
Activate with a sponsoring broker

$83.75 activation. The moment this processes, you can list, show, write offers, and earn commission.

Florida hosted 143 million visitors in 2024, the highest number on record. Most of them passed through Orlando. The 2024 attempt to centralize Florida's vacation rental rules under state control (Senate Bill 280) cleared the legislature and was vetoed by the governor, which means the 2011 preemption framework plus a patchwork of city and county ordinances continues to govern. The agents who actually convert Orlando's visitor traffic into commission income are the ones who know, parcel by parcel, which subdivisions can legally rent under 30 days and which can't.

That is the first differentiator. There are three, and none of them appear in the standard state guide.

Senate Bill 280 was vetoed in 2024. Florida's parcel-by-parcel vacation-rental patchwork still rules. Orlando agents who know it close more deals.

Short-term rental specialization is the single most valuable agent skill in the Orlando metro. The City of Orlando itself runs restrictive rules (home-share only, owner must be present, no more than 50% of bedrooms rented, with whole-unit rentals only in commercial zoning districts like O-3, MU, and AC). Osceola County, Polk County, and unincorporated Orange County are materially more permissive, which is why the institutional vacation-rental subdivisions (Champions Gate, Reunion, Solara, Encore Resort at Reunion, Windsor Hills, Bella Vida, Storey Lake, Margaritaville Resort Orlando) cluster outside Orlando city limits. An agent who can tell a buyer at the contract stage whether a specific parcel can legally support 30-day-or-less rentals is selling a service most generalist agents cannot.

International buyers came back hard in 2024 and 2025. Florida's international buyer dollar volume climbed to $10.4 billion in the 12 months ending July 2025, a 50% jump from the prior year. International buyers accounted for roughly one in ten Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford home sales in 2025, and 36% of those purchases came from Latin America and the Caribbean. The mix here is distinct from Miami. Orlando's international buyer is overwhelmingly investor-class, looking at vacation-rental homes between $250,000 and $500,000, often paying cash, frequently Brazilian or Colombian. The agents who close these deals understand FIRPTA withholding, ITIN financing, and how to refer property management at closing.

The third differentiator is the tourism workforce, which functions in Orlando both as a buyer pool and as the dominant pipeline of second-career applicants into the license. Greater Orlando employs more than 350,000 people in leisure and hospitality, more than any other U.S. metro. Many of them buy first homes. Many of them eventually pursue the real estate license as a second career, often while still working at Disney, Universal, or in convention hospitality. A new Orlando agent who came out of theme-park operations brings a real and underrated book of co-worker first-time buyers, and that book is the difference between a six-month dry start and a closing in month four.

This post walks the six-step path from "considering this" to "active license held by a sponsoring broker": eligibility under F.S. 475.17, the 63-hour pre-license course, the DBPR application, fingerprinting, the 100-question state exam at Pearson VUE, and activation with a brokerage. By the end you'll have a realistic timeline (3 to 5 months for the standard path, 6 to 10 weeks for the mutual recognition path), an honest fee range ($400 to $700 before exam prep), and a clear view of why an Orlando license is a structurally different career than the same license sat in Miami or Tampa.

What Orlando actually rewards

SHORT-TERM RENTAL FLUENCY

The short-term rental specialization is the highest-value Orlando-specific skill, and most new agents enter the market without it. The mechanics matter. Orange County collects a 6% local transient rental tax on top of the 6% state sales tax and 0.5% county surtax. The City of Orlando requires a vacation rental certificate, valid for one year, $100 renewal with an interior inspection. Whole-unit rentals in residential zones inside city limits are not permitted; they require commercial zoning. Step outside city limits and the rules change. Osceola County's vacation rental landscape supports thousands of professionally managed homes in the Disney corridor. Polk County's Champions Gate area runs on the same logic. The agents who can map a buyer's investment thesis (cash-on-cash return, off-season occupancy, HOA short-term restrictions) against the specific subdivisions where the math actually works are the agents who build repeat-investor pipelines.

INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR PIPELINE

The international buyer story is the second multiplier. Canada led Florida foreign buyer counts in the most recent reporting period (18% of international transactions), followed by Colombia (10%), Brazil (7%), Argentina (6%), and the U.K. (5%). The Orlando split skews more Brazilian and Colombian than the state average because of the vacation-rental investment profile. Roughly 47% of foreign buyers pay all-cash nationally, and Florida's international buyer median purchase price is around $442,000. The agents who serve this segment well are not the ones who speak the language casually. They're the ones who can run a FIRPTA-aware closing, refer a property management company on the same day, and explain to a Brazilian buyer why an LLC structure may or may not be the right ownership vehicle given their U.S. tax exposure.

TOURISM-WORKFORCE NETWORK

The tourism workforce is the third differentiator and the one most new agents undervalue. Disney World employs roughly 75,000 cast members. Universal Orlando employs more than 25,000. SeaWorld, conventions, hotels, restaurants, and the surrounding hospitality ecosystem push the total well past 350,000 people. The point for a new agent is not that these workers are all buying homes (most aren't, and many are renters in workforce housing). The point is that the ones who do buy concentrate in specific subdivisions (Avalon Park, Lake Nona, Hunters Creek, Meadow Woods, the I-Drive corridor) and that second-career agents who came out of the parks have a referral network those subdivisions reward. Orlando is the only Florida metro where "I worked at Disney for 12 years before I got my license" is a credible opening line on a buyer call.

What this market makes harder: the agent population is large (Orlando metro hosts more than 15,000 licensed agents), the median home price ($407K as of January 2026) is below Miami's, and the per-transaction commission therefore runs smaller. The volume opportunity is real. The per-deal premium is not.

Step 1: Eligibility

F.S. 475.17 sets the bar lower than most applicants assume. You must be 18, hold a high-school diploma or equivalent, have a Social Security number, and meet a "honesty, trustworthiness, and good character" standard that DBPR evaluates case-by-case.

The "good character" item is the one that worries second-career applicants more than it should. DBPR is materially more permissive than most state real estate commissions on prior records. Old misdemeanors, a single dated felony, and minor financial-history items rarely block a Florida license outright. The board weighs nature of offense, time since, evidence of rehabilitation, and relevance to the practice of real estate. What stops applications is not usually the conviction itself. It is incomplete disclosure on the application form.

Two practical notes for Orlando applicants.

If your record has anything you're uncertain about, file the application honestly and let DBPR rule. The board says yes more often than applicants expect. Withholding something the background check will surface anyway is what creates problems, not the underlying record.

If you hold an active real estate license in one of the nine mutual recognition states (AL, AR, CT, GA, IL, KY, MS, NE, RI), the path below is not your path. You skip the 63-hour course, sit a shorter 40-question Florida-law-only exam, and can be active in 6 to 10 weeks. We cover that sequence in the Florida license transfer guide. Orlando is the largest receiving metro in Florida for credential-transfer applicants from Georgia and the Northeast.

Nothing in this section is legal advice. If your situation is non-standard, a Florida-licensed attorney will give you a clearer read than any blog post can.

Step 2: The 63-hour pre-license course

Florida requires 63 hours of approved pre-license education before you can sit the sales associate exam. The hour count is the same statewide. The providers and the formats are not.

Three formats exist:

  • In-person classroom. Fixed schedule, 2–4 weeks of evenings or a compressed weekday track. Best for candidates who don't trust themselves to finish self-paced material.
  • Livestream. Same instructor and same schedule as in-person, no commute. The most common Orlando format post-2021.
  • Self-paced online. Finish in as little as 9 days or stretch over 6 months. Cheapest, highest dropout rate.

Cost runs from about $150 on the cheapest national online providers to $500 for in-person Orlando classroom programs. Climer School of Real Estate has a long-standing Orlando-area footprint and a reputation among local instructors. Bert Rodgers Schools and Bob Hogue School of Real Estate (St. Petersburg-based, online statewide) are the dominant Florida-focused providers many Orlando candidates use. Gold Coast Schools runs online for Central Florida candidates who want the brand. The CE Shop, Aceable, and Colibri round out the national-online tier most candidates compare on price.

KEY INSIGHT · FORMAT > BRAND

The 63-hour syllabus is the same regardless of provider. What varies is the quality of the practice question bank, instructor responsiveness when you get stuck on a math problem, and the realism of the end-of-course practice exam relative to the actual DBPR test. Candidates who pass the course end-of-course exam by a wide margin pass the state exam at materially higher rates than candidates who scrape through. If one provider costs $200 more for a substantially better practice bank, that $200 is the cheapest leverage you'll buy in the entire process.

Full cost breakdown across the whole licensure path lives in the Florida real estate license cost post. Short version: $400 to $700 in fees and course costs before exam prep.

Step 3: The DBPR application and fingerprinting

You submit the RE-1 application through the DBPR portal. Fee is $83.75. Processing runs 2 to 6 weeks in normal periods and longer during DBPR backlog windows. Fingerprinting is done separately through a Florida-approved Livescan vendor and runs $50 to $75. Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties have dozens of vendor locations between them, most are walk-in.

One tactical point that matters more than the order of any other step in this guide: file the DBPR application before you finish the 63-hour course, not after. The application and the course can process in parallel. DBPR's review does not require proof of course completion at submission. It requires it before they release you to schedule the exam. Filing early can shave 3 to 5 weeks off your total timeline.

The application asks about prior convictions, prior license discipline in any state, and financial history. Answer all of it honestly. The two most common reasons applications get flagged or delayed are nondisclosure of items DBPR finds on the background check anyway, and applicant slowness in responding to follow-up document requests. Neither of those is hard to avoid.

Fingerprints have a 90-day validity window for DBPR's purposes. Schedule the Livescan once you know your application is in. If you fingerprint too early and your application stalls for any reason, you may end up paying to re-print.

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Step 4: The Florida Real Estate Sales Associate exam

The exam is 100 multiple-choice questions, 3.5 hours, 75% to pass. The split is 45 questions on real estate principles and practices, 45 questions on Florida and federal real estate law, and 10 math questions. First-time pass rate hovers near 50% depending on the DBPR quarter you sample. About half the people who sit it walk out without a license. That is not a comment on the test takers. It is a comment on how most candidates prepare.

The 19-topic DBPR content outline (we broke it down in the 19 topics post) is weighted heavily toward four clusters: real estate brokerage activities and procedures, contracts, property rights and ownership, and mortgages and lending. Those four clusters account for roughly 40% of the exam between them. If your study time is split evenly across all 19 topics, you are spending time on the wrong ones.

Orlando-area Pearson VUE testing centers:

  • University of Central Florida corridor: 12506 Lake Underhill Rd
  • Colonialtown (east of downtown): 3165 McCrory Place, Suite 156
  • Lake Mary and SR-417 corridor
  • Nearby alternates: Kissimmee, Sanford

Book early. Slots in the Orlando metro can run 2 to 4 weeks out in peak periods, especially January through April when seasonal applicants test.

The exam content shifted under the 2022–2024 statute changes more than most prep materials reflect. The August 2024 NAR settlement implementation pushed buyer brokerage agreements into the standard Florida transaction flow, and the state portion of the exam now tests on the new disclosure mechanics, transaction broker default behavior, and written buyer-brokerage requirements. If your prep material was printed before late 2024, your answers on agency and disclosure are likely outdated. We track the change set in the 2026 exam changes post.

KEY INSIGHT · MATH IS WHERE THE FAILS HIDE

The 10 math questions are where a meaningful share of first-time fails are decided. The math is not conceptually hard (proration, documentary stamps, commission, capitalization rate, gross rent multiplier). It is practice-hard. Most candidates who fail the math section never drilled it specifically. Five to ten hours of isolated math practice raises a typical candidate's math score from "miss most of them" to "miss one or two," which is often the difference between a 73% and a 76%.

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Step 5: Find a sponsoring broker

A Florida sales associate license is inactive until a licensed broker activates it. The brokerage decision is the most consequential career choice a new agent makes in year one and the one most often made on autopilot.

KEY INSIGHT · SPLIT vs. MENTORSHIP

A high-split brokerage (you keep 70 to 100%, often through a flat-fee model like Charles Rutenberg Realty or LPT Realty) typically pairs the split with low training, no desk infrastructure, and no lead generation. A low-split brokerage (you keep 50 to 60%, sometimes lower in year one) typically pairs the split with structured training, a mentor or team lead, marketing support, and a transaction coordinator. For year-one Orlando agents, the second model usually produces more closed deals even after the worse split. Most new agents close zero to two transactions in their first six months.

The Orlando brokerage landscape sorts into four tiers:

Tier Examples Right for
National full-service Coldwell Banker Realty, Keller Williams, RE/MAX, Century 21 New agents who want structure and training
Tech-forward growth Compass Florida, eXp Realty Agents who want marketing infrastructure or remote flexibility
Florida-headquartered, high-volume LPT Realty (Lake Mary), Charles Rutenberg Realty (flat-fee, statewide) Agents bringing their own pipeline
STR / investor boutiques Florida Realty Investments, Authentic Real Estate Team, Champions Gate & Reunion specialists Agents plugging directly into the STR investor segment

The brand-name analysis is mostly noise. Here's the analysis that matters. The gap between a new agent's first-year income and a top-team agent's first-year income inside the same brokerage is wider than the gap between two different brokerages. The brand on the card is not the multiplier. The mentor on the team is.

The Orlando-specific multipliers, when they kick in, are short-term rental fluency, international-buyer transaction discipline, and tourism-workforce referral density. A new agent who can speak to STR zoning and ROI math, run a clean FIRPTA-aware international closing, or convert their pre-license hospitality network into a buyer pipeline has differentiation most resale-generalist agents lack.

We go deeper on the brokerage-selection criteria in the sponsoring broker guide.

Step 6: Activate and start

Activation runs $83.75 through DBPR and is initiated by your sponsoring broker. From the moment activation processes, you can list, show, write offers, and earn commission. The 24-month post-activation clock starts on a 45-hour post-license education requirement, which must be completed before your first license renewal.

Honest first-90-days expectation: most new Orlando agents do not close a transaction in their first quarter. The standard pattern is 60 to 90 days of pipeline-building (sphere outreach, open houses, listing appointments shadowed with a mentor) before a first offer goes out. First closing typically lands somewhere in months 4 to 8. Income in those first months is zero, which is why most new Florida agents enter the business with 6 to 12 months of savings or part-time work covering the gap. New agents who plan for the gap make it. New agents who don't, don't.

The candidates who shorten that ramp materially in Orlando fall into three patterns. They bring an existing book, which is why second-career applicants from theme parks, hospitality, and convention services often outperform first-career applicants. They develop a real technical specialization in their first 60 days (STR zoning, international-buyer closings, new-construction in Lake Nona or Horizon West) rather than positioning as generalists. Or they have language and cultural fluency in a buyer segment the brokerage is underserving, which in Orlando increasingly means Portuguese (Brazilian buyers), Spanish (Colombian and Mexican buyers), and to a smaller extent French and Mandarin.

None of those is reliably built in the first 90 days. All of them can be built deliberately starting in month one if you know to build them.

CALENDAR · STANDARD-PATH TIMELINE

WEEK 1
Enroll and file in parallel

Start the 63-hour pre-license course. File the DBPR RE-1 application the same week. Review and coursework run on separate clocks.

WEEKS 2–4
Finish the course, complete fingerprinting

Walk into any Florida-approved Livescan vendor (Orange, Osceola, Seminole have dozens). DBPR application enters review in parallel.

WEEKS 4–8
Sit the Pearson VUE exam

Book early. Orlando metro slots run 2–4 weeks out, longer Jan–Apr when seasonal applicants test. 100 questions, 75% to pass.

MONTH 3+
Activate with a broker and start working

Most new agents close their first transaction in months 4–8. Plan 6–12 months of savings to bridge the ramp.

What you'll actually make in Orlando

Orlando real estate income is bimodal, and an average obscures more than it reveals. The honest numbers across major sources:

Source Average / Median Range (25th–75th percentile)
Glassdoor (Jan 2026) ~$206K median $154K – $280K
Indeed (Mar 2026) ~$100K n/a
ZipRecruiter (Apr 2026) ~$80K $56K – $93K (top decile ~$120K)
Salary.com (May 2026) ~$72K n/a

The spread between $72K and $206K is not survey error. It is the underlying distribution. Orlando's high-end agent income concentrates in two distinct pools that do not overlap. The first is the STR-investor specialist pool, working the Champions Gate, Reunion, and Encore Resort corridors, often closing 30 to 60 vacation-rental transactions a year at $400K to $700K each. The second is the relocation-and-new-construction pool, working Lake Nona, Horizon West, Winter Garden, and Apopka with corporate relocation pipelines from Disney, Lockheed Martin, AdventHealth, and the medical-city complex. The long tail of part-time, first-year, and generalist-resale agents pulls the lower averages down.

What that means for a new agent: your year-one income will almost certainly be on the low end of those ranges. Most new agents in any Florida metro earn between $10,000 and $30,000 gross in year one. The multiples that show up in the higher data points come in year two, year three, and year five, and they come faster for agents with the specializations described above. The Orlando premium is real. It is also back-loaded.

Deeper on the data, the year-by-year ramp, and segmentation in the Florida real estate agent salary post.

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FAQ

How long does it take to get a real estate license in Orlando?

3 to 5 months on the standard path (eligibility check, 63-hour course, DBPR application, fingerprints, state exam, broker activation). 6 to 10 weeks on the mutual recognition path if you hold an active license in one of the nine reciprocating states.

How much does a Florida real estate license cost in Orlando?

$400 to $700 before exam prep, depending on which 63-hour pre-license course you choose. The mandatory fees are the $83.75 DBPR application, $50 to $75 for Livescan fingerprinting, the $36.75 Pearson VUE exam sitting fee, and $83.75 to activate with a broker. Course costs ($150 to $500) make up the rest.

What is the pass rate for the Florida real estate exam?

Roughly 50% on first attempt, depending on the DBPR quarter you sample. Half the people who sit it walk out without a license. Most failures are preparation problems, not difficulty problems. Candidates who drill scenario-based practice questions weighted to the 19-topic outline pass at materially higher rates than candidates who study by reading.

Can I run a vacation rental in the City of Orlando under the current rules?

Inside Orlando city limits, only. The City of Orlando permits home-share rentals (owner-occupied, owner must be present, no more than 50% of bedrooms rented) under a vacation rental certificate that costs $100 a year and requires an interior inspection. Whole-unit rentals in Orlando's residential zoning districts are not permitted; they require commercial zoning (O-3, MU, or AC). Step outside city limits and the rules change materially: unincorporated Orange County, Osceola County, and Polk County all run more permissive programs, which is why the institutional vacation-rental subdivisions (Champions Gate, Reunion, Solara, Encore Resort, Windsor Hills, Storey Lake, Margaritaville Resort Orlando) all cluster outside Orlando proper. Senate Bill 280 (the 2024 attempt at state preemption) was vetoed, so the parcel-by-parcel patchwork still governs.

Do I need to speak Portuguese to work with Brazilian buyers in Orlando?

No, but it's the single highest-ROI language skill an Orlando agent can develop right now. Brazilian buyers are one of the largest cohorts in Orlando's international-investor segment, concentrated in the Champions Gate, Reunion, and Encore Resort vacation-rental corridors. The buyers who don't bring a translator generally have functional English. The closing experience improves materially when the agent can run a FIRPTA-aware closing in Portuguese, explain ITIN financing options, and walk a buyer through LLC ownership tradeoffs in their stronger language. Conversational Portuguese is table stakes for the segment. Technical Portuguese (statute terms, tax structuring, HOA mechanics) is the multiplier. Same logic Miami agents apply to Spanish.

Do I need to live in Florida to get a Florida real estate license?

No. Florida has no residency requirement for licensure. The 63-hour pre-license course, DBPR application, fingerprinting, and exam can all be completed by out-of-state candidates, including those who hold active licenses in non-reciprocating states.

What's the difference between Orlando and Miami for a new real estate agent?

Same license, different career. Orlando rewards short-term rental specialization (Champions Gate, Reunion, the Disney-corridor subdivisions), the international investor pipeline (heavily Brazilian and Colombian, vacation-rental focused, often all-cash), and the tourism-workforce referral network (Disney, Universal, and the 350,000-person hospitality ecosystem). Miami rewards bilingual technical fluency (Spanish or Portuguese), condo-law specialization (HB 913, milestone inspections), and the international luxury buyer segment.

Methodology

What this post covers. The mechanical and practical path to a Florida real estate sales associate license for candidates based in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area (Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake counties), including eligibility, the 63-hour pre-license course, the DBPR application, fingerprinting, the state exam at Pearson VUE, activation with a sponsoring broker, and realistic year-one income expectations. Current as of May 2026.

Data sources. Florida Statutes Chapter 475 (license law), Florida Administrative Code Rule 61J2, DBPR Division of Real Estate fee schedule and application guidance, Pearson VUE Florida Real Estate Sales Associate Candidate Handbook (2025), City of Orlando short-term rental ordinance and 2024 Senate Bill 280 veto record, Florida Realtors 2025 Profile of International Residential Transactions in Florida (Nov 2025), VISIT FLORIDA 2024 visitor data, Orlando Regional REALTOR Association Global Real Estate Council reports, Orlando Business Journal coverage of 2025 international buyer activity, NAR 2025 Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate, NAR settlement implementation guidance (August 2024), and aggregated salary data from Glassdoor (Jan 2026), Indeed (Mar 2026), ZipRecruiter (Apr 2026), and Salary.com (May 2026).

What this post does not cover. The Florida broker license (a different track with different rules), the 45-hour post-license education requirement in detail (covered in a dedicated post), or content review for specific exam topics (the 19-topic and math-formula posts handle those).

Why this post does not rely on one average income figure. Orlando real estate income is bimodal. A single "average" misrepresents the distribution for new agents and for top-decile agents alike. The post cites the range across four data sources and explains the distribution explicitly, which is more useful than a number.

Mutual recognition note. The nine-state mutual recognition list reflects DBPR's current agreements at time of writing. Mutual recognition agreements have changed historically and may change again. Confirm against DBPR's current published list before relying on it.

Sources

  • Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Real Estate (application, fee schedule, eligibility rules)
  • Florida Statutes Chapter 475 (real estate license law)
  • Florida Administrative Code, Rule 61J2 (exam and eligibility rules)
  • Pearson VUE Florida Real Estate Sales Associate Candidate Handbook (2025)
  • City of Orlando short-term rental ordinance and registration program (Orlando.gov)
  • Florida Senate Bill 280 (2024, vetoed) and Florida vacation rental statute (Chapter 509)
  • VISIT FLORIDA, 2024 and Q1–Q2 2025 visitor data
  • Florida Realtors, 2025 Profile of International Residential Transactions in Florida (November 2025)
  • National Association of REALTORS, 2025 Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate
  • NAR settlement implementation guidance (August 2024) and Florida Realtors buyer brokerage form updates
  • Orlando Regional REALTOR Association, Global Real Estate Council reports
  • Glassdoor (Jan 2026), Indeed (Mar 2026), ZipRecruiter (Apr 2026), Salary.com (May 2026), salary data for Orlando real estate agents

All information verified May 2026.