An agence immobilière is the Quebec term for a licensed real estate agency — the firm a courtier immobilier (broker) works under, regulated by the Organisme d'autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ).
Quebec runs a civil-law brokerage regime distinct from the common-law provinces, and its primary legislation and regulator sites are not reliably reachable for direct citation, so this entry sticks to what the OACIQ itself confirms in English rather than any specific statute article. The OACIQ's mission, in its own words, is to protect the public by enforcing the Real Estate Brokerage Act, which sets the licensing conditions for anyone acting as a courtier.
Every agency has a specific supervisory role attached to it: the agency executive officer. The OACIQ describes this person as “an experienced broker who completed additional training, passed an exam and is required to complete a specific continuing education program,” responsible for ensuring the agency's brokers meet their duties under the Act — “even if the broker is a self-employed entrepreneur.” In other words, working under an agency does not make a courtier an employee, but it does put a named, separately-qualified person over their compliance.
This is structurally different from Ontario or Alberta, where the equivalent oversight role — the broker of record in Ontario, the broker in Alberta — typically runs the brokerage itself rather than sitting alongside a separately defined executive-officer position. Given the sourcing gap on Quebec's primary legislation, a reader who needs the Act's exact requirements for a given transaction should confirm directly with the OACIQ rather than rely on an analogy to another province's rules.
A courtier immobilier wants to leave one agence immobilière for another. The move changes which agency executive officer is responsible for supervising that courtier's files, but it does not change the courtier's own OACIQ licence — the licence belongs to the individual, the agency affiliation is a separate registration layered on top of it.
See also: Courtier immobilier: the Québec title · Broker of record: the name on the licence.
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