How we verify and date the lists
The numbers on every page come from these checks. We would rather undercount than pad a file with office inboxes or guesses.
Verified on a live website
Every email in the files for Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Germany was verified on a live website. Every email in the New Zealand file was verified. Each page shows when its file was last checked.
Australia
What counts as an agent's own email
The address's local part matches the person's name; an address on 2 or more people's rows, or a role inbox (admin@, info@, rentals@), is the office's and never counted. One row per email address (else per agency + name), keeping the fullest record. Front office, admin and client services staff are labelled and never counted as agents.
Roles
From each agent's job title. Rows with no job title sit in "role not stated" and are never counted as sales.
How we place an agent to a city
Cities follow the ABS Greater Capital City areas (Greater Sydney includes the Central Coast, Greater Melbourne the Mornington Peninsula, Greater Perth Mandurah); elsewhere the ABS SA4 region; listed from 25 own-email agents; no pages, a buyer can ask for any of them as a cut. 83.4% of agents are placed this way; the rest are counted nationally but left out of the city and region tables.
Dates
The Australian data is dated 29 Oct 2026. 13,740 rows carry a provisional date until we confirm it.
United States and Canada
Each is a single page, a clickable map and one row per state, province or territory, with that row's own count and last checked date, not a page for every state or city. Every row in these files has an email. In the United States, office addresses are counted apart and never as agents, and a role is shown only where a row has a job title; a blank title is never counted as a sales agent.
United Kingdom and Ireland
What counts as an agent's own email
The address's local part matches the person's name. An address on 2 or more people's rows, the office's own address, or a role inbox (info@, lettings@, admin@) is the office's and never counted. A name made only from the address (jane.smith@ turned into Jane Smith) is held out and never counted. One row per email address, and the same person repeated across an agency's branches counts once. Administrators, sales progressors, sales support and operations staff are labelled and never counted as agents.
Roles
From each agent's job title. "Other professionals" are surveyors, valuers and commercial agents. A blank title is never counted as a sales agent.
Country and region
UK or Ireland only, Northern Ireland (BT postcodes) is UK; from the office postcode or Eircode, then phone, then email domain. UK from the office postcode district, Ireland the county from the Eircode or address; where a person's own office is not known, the town is left blank and, if the agency spans regions, the region is unknown. 84.4% of UK agents and 84.1% of Irish agents are placed to a region or county this way; the rest are counted nationally but left out of the region and county tables.
Checking the addresses
1227 rare domains checked by DNS, 32 without mail; a domain that does not resolve is dropped, never guessed.
Phone-only agents
Agents with a personal mobile or direct line but no email of their own are kept too. Personal numbers only: a mobile or direct line on the person's own rows, never the office line or a number on 3+ people's rows. That is 2,660 agents in the UK file and 264 in Ireland, carried with a blank Email and the Contact type "phone only", and counted apart from the own-email agents the headline counts.
Region boundaries: ONS, Open Government Licence v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2022. County boundaries: Tailte Éireann, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What is in a file
One CSV for each country, state or region you buy, one row per contact: the agent's name and agency, and their email, phone or mobile, office town or suburb and role where we have them. Phone-only rows carry the Contact type "phone only" and a blank Email. Every list page shows a masked sample first.
Dates, refreshes and removals
Every list page shows the date of its data near the top. When we refresh a market we update the count and the date together; we do not quietly change a number. If a row's email bounces, tell us and we replace it. Any agent can be removed at any time on the remove-me page; we remove every row that matches and keep a note so it is not added back on the next refresh.