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Does a personal Facebook profile meet Realtor advertising rules?

Do not count on the profile. The rules we could read ask for your brokerage’s name in the advertisement itself. NAR’s Code allows a link to a page with the disclosures as an alternative, and Arizona’s current rule asks that online advertising meet its requirements on the advertisement without scrolling. Put your name and brokerage in the post.

Why the profile is the question

Since January 30, 2023, Meta no longer lets sellers create real estate listings on Marketplace from a business page, so agents post from a personal profile. The source is on our Marketplace page. A personal profile has no logo bar and no required company field, so the question is fair: does the post identify you and your company, or only your name?

What NAR says

Article 12 of the Code of Ethics asks Realtors to make their status as real estate professionals readily apparent in their advertising. Standard of Practice 12-5, in the 2026 edition, is the one about the firm’s name:

“…without disclosing the name of that REALTOR®’s firm in a reasonable and readily apparent manner either in the advertisement or in electronic advertising via a link to a display with all required disclosures.”

So the Code accepts two routes: the firm’s name in the advertisement, or a link to a display with every required disclosure. A 2016 article in NAR’s magazine, archived and noting it may not be current, puts the profile problem this way: Realtors must “clearly identify themselves and their company when advertising online,” and “your personal Facebook profile may not include such details.” Its suggested fix was a link in the post to a page that shows your company’s logo prominently.

What the states say

What to put on the post itself

Write the identification into the post text, and put it first. Facebook decides how much of a description shows before a reader opens it, and that can change, so the lines that identify you should not sit at the bottom.

Marketed by Jane Agent, Example Realty
Listing courtesy of Another Brokerage
Marketing on behalf of Another Brokerage with written permission.

  1. Your name, with your license designation if your state asks for one.
  2. Your brokerage’s legal name or the dba name on your license, exactly as licensed. A team name goes in addition to it, never in its place.
  3. When the home is not your brokerage’s, the listing brokerage by name, and a plain line saying you are marketing it with permission.
  4. In Arizona, R4-28-502(F) also asks for a disclosure in the advertisement itself when the listing is not yours. Read the rule text before you post.

Then make the profile support the post. A profile that names your brokerage and links to your brokerage’s page helps a reader, and it costs nothing. We found no source saying it can stand in for the identification on the post.

What we could not verify

Read the sources yourself

Where Listing AutomatEr fits

Listing AutomatEr is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that posts the listings you have permission to market to Facebook Marketplace on a schedule. Each post carries your name and brokerage and the listing courtesy line for the brokerage that holds the home; for Arizona listings they lead the description. It does not get the permission for you, and it does not decide whether a post meets a rule.

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Informational, not legal advice. Real estate advertising rules vary by state, by association and by brokerage. Quotations are from the sources named above, read October 23, 2026, except where noted.