Virginia Real Estate Continuing Education

These online continuing education real estate courses are approved by the Virginia Real Estate Board.
Please check to see which course you need. Most agents need the 16 hour course.

1) This course includes the credit hours needed every 2 years (for agents licensed before 2004).
Virginia 16 hour continuing education online package - This is the real estate continuing ed course that is required every 2 years. It is for all Virginia real estate agents who originally obtained their license before 2004. The course includes the 8 hours of mandatory topics and 8 hours of elective subjects. It consists of a review of real estate concepts and rules. At the end of the course, there is a multiple choice test, which can be taken until you pass at no extra cost. The course is Virginia state approved. You will get a user name and password so you can log in and out whenever you want.
Click here for the online 16 hour continuing education course for Virginia real estate agents.

2) If you need less than 16 hours of continuing education, you may take individual continuing education courses for hourly credits (2, 4 or 8 hour credit courses) to get specific mandatory courses or additional credits. This is for those who already have taken some courses and only need selected hourly credits.

3) This is for recently licensed agents.
If you were licensed after December 31, 2003, you need to take 30 hours of post license education for your first renewal within your first 2 years of issuance of your license by the Virginia Real Estate Board. The courses must come from any one of three practice tracks: 1) Residential Real Estate (2 Commercial Real Estate OR 3) Property Management (Residential).  The online courses offered here are for the first track, residential real estate.
Click here for the courses that fulfill the 30 hour credit hours of post license education - online courses (first continuing education for agents licensed after 12/31/2003).
NOTE: You will need to check off all the mandatory courses and enough elective course to have a total of 30 hours.

Additional Information:

The Virginia Real Estate Board website is http://www.state.va.us/dpor/reb_main
The courses here are approved Virginia real estate courses. The courses are offered by Act Web Services in cooperation with REcampus, a division of Dearborn, and by Career WebSchool, a division of CompuTaught. Both Act Web Services and Career WebSchool are approved Virginia proprietary schools.

Here are the detailed continuing education requirements for those who need the 16 hour course.

• 8 of the 16 CE hours shall include training in these required topics:
  • Ethics and Standards of Conduct
  • Legal Updates and Emerging Trends
  • Real Estate Agency
  • Real Estate Contracts
  • Fair Housing Laws (minimum of 2 hours, which also includes an update on current cases and administrative decisions under Fair Housing Laws)
• The other 8 hours are "elective" courses in real estate-related subjects.
  Sign up for Virginia 16 hour continuing education online package

You may read the official 30 hour post license course requirements for recently licensed agents (on Virginia Real Estate Board website).
Sign up for 30 hour credit hours of post license education

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