September 01, 2025

You need a real estate license to sell a cemetery plot.

FICTION. You don’t need a real estate license to sell a cemetery plot, but you need one to help buy or sell real property that contains a cemetery on it.

Rural properties may have family cemeteries onsite. If your seller clients find even a single grave on their property, your seller clients will need to disclose that information because a future buyer must allow access for visitation purposes.

Scan this code to learn more about transactions involving cemeteries from this December 2021 article from Texas REALTOR® magazine.