What must appear on a real estate ad in Georgia?

Under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09, GREC requires the licensed name of your brokerage; a phone number or address for the BROKERAGE itself, not your personal mobile. Advertising must carry the firm's name as registered with the Commission and a telephone number at which a caller can reach the firm's management without going through the licensee.

Does a social media post count as advertising in Georgia?

GREC writes its rule for advertising in any medium, and a market-update post that invites contact is advertising. The safest place for the disclosures is inside the image itself, because a caption can be truncated and a bio can be missed.

Is there a size requirement in Georgia?

Georgia sets no size or prominence ratio between the brokerage name and your own. The mention has to be there and be readable; how big it is relative to your name is not fixed by Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09.

LOKAL / Advertising rules / Georgia

GRECGa. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09Read at the source

Real estate advertising rules in Georgia

Advertising must carry the firm's name as registered with the Commission and a telephone number at which a caller can reach the firm's management without going through the licensee.

What has to be on the post

the licensed name of your brokerage
a phone number or address for the BROKERAGE itself, not your personal mobile

The part that is easy to get wrong

Read it closely: the number must reach the firm's management without going through you. Your own mobile does not satisfy this rule, which is why LOKAL asks for a brokerage number separately.

The numbers, in one place

Georgia advertising requirements, in figures
2	requirements GREC puts on the ad itself
51	US jurisdictions LOKAL carries, read at the source
15	of them set a text SIZE rule, not just a mention
2	require the licence number on the advertisement
no ratio	Georgia fixes no size ratio between the two
2026	the year this rule was last read at the source
29 %	of US jurisdictions turn this into a measurable size rule
14,853	US markets LOKAL can pre-fill, down to the ZIP code
$29	a month for the tool that checks this before you post

A worked example, and why one template cannot do it

Two states contradict each other outright, and it is the clearest case study of why this matters. Texas asks for the broker name at 50 % of the largest agent contact text; Illinois asks for 100 %. A layout built for Texas is therefore non-compliant in Illinois, and the difference is not a missing word but a font size. That result is only visible if something measures the pixels after drawing them, which is what LOKAL does before you post.

Where this comes from

GREC, Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09. Read the rule at the source

Your state regulator is not the only one with a say. These federal sources apply on top of Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09, and no state commission will remind you of them:

LOKAL reproduces published regulator guidance and checks what it draws against it. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace your broker's review.

LOKAL checks this on the image, not on a form.

Pick your market, set your signature once, and LOKAL measures what it actually drew against Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09 before you post. It carries all 51 US jurisdictions.

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Other jurisdictions

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Questions

What must appear on a real estate ad in Georgia?: Under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09, GREC requires the licensed name of your brokerage; a phone number or address for the BROKERAGE itself, not your personal mobile. Advertising must carry the firm's name as registered with the Commission and a telephone number at which a caller can reach the firm's management without going through the licensee.
Does a social media post count as advertising in Georgia?: GREC writes its rule for advertising in any medium, and a market-update post that invites contact is advertising. The safest place for the disclosures is inside the image itself, because a caption can be truncated and a bio can be missed.
Is there a size requirement in Georgia?: Georgia sets no size or prominence ratio between the brokerage name and your own. The mention has to be there and be readable; how big it is relative to your name is not fixed by Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09.
Anything easy to get wrong in Georgia?: Read it closely: the number must reach the firm's management without going through you. Your own mobile does not satisfy this rule, which is why LOKAL asks for a brokerage number separately.

How this page is written and checked

Written by the engineering team at INEYA Studio, the software studio that builds LOKAL. The Georgia rule on this page was read at GREC's own published text in 2026, not summarised from a third party.

It is checked automatically on every build against the compliance table the product itself applies: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09 appears on this page only because LOKAL enforces exactly that rule when it draws your image. A page that claimed a requirement the product does not check would fail the build.

Reviewed by the engineering team at INEYA Studio on 2026-09-17, and re-checked automatically on every deployment. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.