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    Title: Abstracter: Company & Individual Proprietor / Individual
    Alternate Title: Abstracter
    Description:

    An abstracter is “any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of making abstracts of title and issuing certificates showing ownership of, or interest in, or liens upon any lands in the state of Minnesota, whether registered or not,” including “present duly qualified and acting county recorders not now prohibited by law from making abstracts.” Minnesota Department of Commerce


    Subject: Abstracters
    Real Property
    Creation Date: 9/11/2008 2:10:24 PM
    Modification Date: 4/23/2025 3:59:02 PM
    Agency Name: Commerce, Minnesota Department of
    Agency URL: https://mn.gov/commerce/
    Agency Description: The Minnesota Department of Commerce is the chief regulator for the banking, energy, insurance, real estate, securities, telecommunications industries and also operates Minnesota's Unclaimed Property.
    Agency Phone: 651-539-1500
    Agency Fax: Agency URL: https://mn.gov/commerce/
    Agency Address:
    85 7th Place East, Suite 500

    St. Paul
    MN
    55101
    Unit Name: Licensing Unit
    Unit URL:
    Unit Description:
    Unit Phone: 651-539-1599
    800-657-3978 MN only
    Unit Fax: Contact person(s): licensing.commerce@state.mn.us
    Unit URL:
    Audience: Application URL: https://www.pulseportal.com/
    Renewal URL: https://www.pulseportal.com/
    Versa URL:
    Requirements:

    Review:

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         Guide to Real Estate Licensing

    Real Estate License Application Change
    Brokers and salespersons: Beginning March 1, 2025 an additional step will be added to initial real estate broker, salesperson, and company license applications. You must complete a form attesting that you have reviewed all the application questions and responses in their entirety and that all the responses are accurate (or a complete and accurate transmittal of the responses provided to the broker by the salesperson license applicant). After the form has been signed and dated, you must upload it with the license application on PULSE.

    Download the appropriate form:

    Salesperson Application Attestation [.pdf]

    Broker Application Attestation [.pdf]

    Company Application Attestation [.pdf]

    Abstracter license and renewal applications are now submitted on Sircon, the licensing system administered by Vertafore for the Commerce Department. Select this link for a recorded demonstration of Sircon.com and the process for abstracter and athlete agent licensing and renewals.

    Abstracters


    Rules:
    Statutes: 386

    Forms:

    Submit the license application at PULSE Portal

    Forms are available at Real Estate Applications


    Fees:

    Individual and/or Company new license - $50 

    Individual - $50

    Renewal - $40


    Period of Issuance:

    1 year


    Length of Determination: 2 - 4 weeks.
    Other Info:
    Activity: Abstracter
    License Detail URL:

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