Compliance overview
Compliance in Realm is about making sure each Realm has the right documents, signatures, and approvals — and, where your brokerage runs its own compliance, that a broker signs off before things move forward.
A key idea: compliance is attachable, not assumed. How much Realm enforces depends on how your Workspace is governed. For a solo agent it's light and informational; for a brokerage that owns compliance, it's a full review-and-approval flow.
Governance types — who has compliance authority
Every Workspace has a governance type that sets the tone:
- Self — you run your own compliance (a solo independent agent). Requirements are informational — Realm tracks them, nothing hard- blocks.
- External — compliance lives with an outside brokerage or system (for example, a team at a national brand). Requirements show as an advisory checklist. EVE can nudge, but Realm doesn't hard-stop the transaction.
- Native — your brokerage owns compliance inside Realm. This is full enforcement: blocking requirements gate stage changes and closing, and a broker reviews and approves documents.
Governance type, your Workspace type, and which compliance system you use are three separate things. A team can be "external" governance even inside a brokerage Workspace. If you're unsure which applies to you, ask your broker or admin.
Advisory vs enforced
The same requirement behaves differently depending on governance:
| Governance | What a blocking requirement does |
|---|---|
| Self | Informational only |
| External | Advisory checklist; EVE may nudge |
| Native | Hard-gates the stage / closing until satisfied |
This is why a Transaction Template can mark a requirement as "blocks progress" and have it gate a native brokerage's transaction while staying advisory elsewhere — the Transaction Template describes intent, governance decides enforcement.
The Compliance surface
Brokers and team leads get a Compliance entry point regardless of governance type — having the nav doesn't mean enforcement is on. The surface adapts:
- Native shows the full broker review queue and document approval flow.
- External shows the advisory checklist.
- Self shows minimal state.
The broker review queue lives in the workspace shell (Realms in compliance mode); the admin tools — packs, rules, certifications, activity feed, archived Realms — live under Brokerage Settings.
In this section
- Compliance packs — broker compliance rule bundles (distinct from document packs)
- Broker review — the review queue and approval flow
- Review pre-triage & document scan — EVE sorts and reads documents so review is faster
- Compliance health — brokerage-wide compliance analytics
- Broker credentials — agent license & E&O currency
- Clear Cooperation Policy — MLS listing-submission timers
- Coordinator desk — assist agents and deliver completed files