Initial
Renewal:
After receiving your license, your initial renewal requires post license
education:
- 45 hours for Sales Associates Licenses
- 60 hours for Broker & Broker Associates Licenses
Post license education can be completed through distance education (online courses) or classroom.
The only exemption is someone with a 4 year degree, or higher, in real estate.
All the candidates who pass a sales associates or broker licensure examination must satisfactorily complete a Commission prescribed post-licensing educational course prior to first renewal following initial licensure. For a sales associate, the post-licensing education course shall consist of one or more Commission approved course which total at least 45 classroom hours, and for a broker, the courses shall total at least 60 classroom hours. Any licensee who has received a 4-year degree in real estate from an accredited institution of higher education is exempt from the post-license education requirement.
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is required to monitor continuing education of all real estate and appraisal licensees. The 100% monitoring of continuing education started on December 1, 2002, for the appraisal licensees and April 1, 2003, for real estate licensees. Schools and course providers are required to electronically provide a course attendance roster to the department within 5 business days after the course completion date. Correspondence courses only need to be reported by the fifth day of the following month after the licensee has completed the course. Licensees are encouraged to visit the departments at www.MyFloridalicense.com and monitor the continuing education hours that have been reported under your license.
Post education courses are not treated as continuing education courses and you may not see such hours posted on the portal. Licensees are required to maintain a paper copy of the course completion certificate in case of an audit by the department.
If this is not your first renewal of your license and is a subsequent renewal of your Sales Associate or Broker Florida real estate license, you are required to successfully complete a 14-Hour Continuing Education Course. Consisting of 8 hours of specialty courses, 3 hours based on ethics and 3 hours on core law updates. This course may be completed through sitting in a classroom for a total of 14 hours through an approved and licensed Florida real estate school with no exam required. The real estate continuing education (C.E.) requirements may also be taken online with a simple 30 multiple choice question open book exam with a passing grade of 80%. Many Florida real estate schools allow you one attempt at each open book exam and others like FloridaRealEstateSchool.com allow you unlimited attempts. The real estate continuing education (C.E.) requirements may also be taken through a correspondence book where the student may use the book to find the answers to the 30 multiple choice question written exam which would need to be mailed, faxed or emailed to the school after completing, a score of 80% is passing.
Exemption:
A Florida Bar Member in active/good standing is exempt from the 14 hour continuing education.
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