Neighborhood Registry re-checks every listed license against its issuing authority in a weekly crawl, and formally re-verifies each license every 12 months. If a check shows a license has lapsed or been revoked, the verified badge is unpublished until the record is clean again. Every check is dated, and the history is public on each profile’s verification page.

Weekly crawl vs. formal re-verification

The two checks do different jobs. The weekly crawl re-reads the public record at the issuing authority — a state real estate commission, the NMLS, a state licensing board — and confirms the license still shows active. It runs continuously across the directory, so a license that lapses mid-year is caught within days, not at renewal time. The formal re-verification is the full check repeated on each license’s 12-month anniversary: the complete record is confirmed again, not just its status line.

What happens when a check fails

A crawl that cannot confirm a license flags the record and triggers a prompt re-check — authority websites go down and records move, so a single failed read is not treated as a lapse. A confirmed lapse is different: if the issuing authority shows the license expired, suspended, or revoked and the record stays that way, the professional’s verified badge is unpublished and the seat is treated as open until the authority record is clean again. The lapse itself stays on the dated public history; it is not quietly erased.

Why the dates are public

A directory that says “verified” without a date is asking you to take its word for it. Each Neighborhood Registry profile links a verification page showing when the license was first verified, when it was last checked, and when the next formal re-verification falls due. You can compare those dates against the issuing authority’s own record — the same record the check was run against.