State Requirements

Louisiana Real Estate Continuing Education Requirements

*NEW Requirements Effective Jan. 1, 2011: CA RE will now require courses to have a timing mechanism. Licensees will also be required to complete an affidavit and fax/email it back to McKissock. Courses will allow for only TWO attempts on the final exam before requiring the course to be retaken. Licensees will be allotted ONE minute per question on the Final Exam at the end of the course. California Salespersons are required to take 45 continuing education hours every 48 months. Real estate salespersons who were licensed prior to 10/1/2007, and are renewing an original license for the first time, must complete five separate three-hour DRE-approved continuing education courses in Ethics, Agency, Trust Fund Handling, Fair Housing and Risk Management.

Those licensees who were licensed on or after 10/1/2007, and were required to have all three statutory/pre-licenses courses (RE Principles, RE Practice, and one additional course), must complete 45 clock hours of DRE-approved continuing education consisting of: Five separate three-hour courses in the following subjects: Ethics, Agency, Trust Fund Handling, Fair Housing, and Risk Management; A minimum of 18 clock hours of consumer protection courses; and The remaining clock hours required to complete the 45 hours of continuing education may be related to either consumer service or consumer protection courses.