Property manager
In Utah, managing someone else's rental for a fee is real estate activity. That surprises owners and tenants alike, and it means the person collecting your rent has a license you can check.
Utah license lookup — real estate and appraisal
Run by Utah Division of Real Estate. Free, no account.
Often mistaken for: The one lookup that covers everybody in a transaction. It covers two of the division's three licensing programs, and the third — mortgage — is the one most buyers want to check.
- Sales agent or broker doing property management under a brokerage
- A brokerage registered to hold client funds in a trust account
A property management company's own certification, membership badge or 'certified' title is not the state license. The license is what the division's search box returns.
- Whether the individual or company is currently licensed
- Which brokerage carries the responsibility, and therefore the trust account
- Sustained disciplinary action, including trust account findings
- How the deposit is actually being held day to day
- Whether maintenance requests get answered
- Anything about an owner self-managing their own property, who does not need this license at all
- Which brokerage holds the trust account my deposit goes into
- Are you managing this unit under a license, or is the owner self-managing
- How do I reach the principal broker if the manager and I cannot resolve something
Provo's student market runs on contracted housing with its own rules on top of the state license. Whether a complex is contracted for BYU students is a separate question from whether its manager is licensed, and och.byu.edu is the only authoritative source for the first.
Utah Code Title 61, Chapter 2f. Complaints about a licensee go to the division's intake; sustained action appears in its disciplinary actions.
Checked against the regulators' own sites on 2026-08-16. Agencies reorganize their sites; follow the link rather than trusting a description that has aged. Back to all five roles →