Online Real Estate Continuing Education for California License.

Our 45-Hour Package provides all the continuing education (CE) needed to renew any California real estate license (salesperson, broker, or corporation and for first-time and subsquent renewals). It is entirely online; course materials are provided as eBooks (in PDF format). Quizzes and final exams are administered online.

If you want to see how our online program works, register for our Demonstration Course. Pass our Demo before you register to earn a 10% discount when you register for this package.

“This course was TREMENDOUS.”

Walter Moore, Real Estate Broker & Attorney;
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Our 45-hour package consists of ten courses. Seven of these ten cover topics required by the DRE:

Ethics (3 hours): Describes the real estate license law enforced by the DRE and the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as practiced by members of the National Association of REALTORS®.

Agency (3 hours): The common law of agency as applied to California real estate brokerage.

Fair Housing (3 hours): Describes the federal and California fair housing and lending laws and also provides, as required after 2022, two interactive scenarios concerning the application of the fair housing laws in which the student role plays a home buyer and a buyer’s agent.

Trust Funds (3 hours): Details the fiduciary responsibilities of brokers when acting as escrows for their clients’ real estate transactions.

Risk Management (3 hours): Provides licensees with the knowledge needed to avoid costly disputes with their clients arising from professional errors in the performance of their duties.

Management & Supervision (3 hours): Describes the laws and regulations brokers must follow when managing their associate licensees.

Implicit Bias Training (2 hours): Describes how licensees can recognize their implicit biases towards protected groups and then mitigate their influence in their dealings with the public.

“Your course, in particular the Consumer Protection Reader portion, is profoundly relevant and helpful for practicing day to day! It is truly the best content and style I have ever seen for helping agents have an overview of what they need to know to be a helpful and efficient to our clients. I think it should be mandatory reading for any agent, especially as a new agent license requirement.”

Pam Sorter, Prudential California Real Estate
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Our 45-hour package also provides 18 hours of consumer protection and seven hours of consumer services using three courses.

Defensive Real Estate (10 hours): Describes topics and techniques for avoiding disputes with clients. Topics include (i) Dispute Resolution, (ii) Risk Management, (iii) Home Inspection, and (iv) Neighborhood Inspections.

Consumer Protection Reader (8 hours): Contains short articles of recent developments of interest to residential real estate brokers. Topics include law, taxation, appraisal, disclosures, finance, and settlement.

Consumer Services Reader (7 hours): This course is an extension of the above mentioned course but contains a higher proportion of articles which the DRE regards as suitable for a course in consumer services.

HOW IT WORKS: For each course, you read its textbook (details), take its quiz (details), and pass its final exam (details). (We do not track the time you spend online reading the course textbooks.)

We enforce DRE’s scheduling rules: (1) You may not take your first exam any sooner than four days after you register (details) and (2) you may not complete more than 15 hours of CE during the preceding 24-hour period(details). Taken together, these two rules mean that you may not complete our 45-hour package any sooner than a little over six days after registration. (details)

To earn credit for any course, you must pass one of its two final exams: an original exam and, should you fail it, a “retake” exam (details). Should you fail the retake exam, you must start over for that course.

“Starting over” means that you must complete the recovery period for that course (see column labeled “Recovery Period” in below table); retake its quiz, and pass one of its two final exams (details). (Unlike some other CE sponsors, we do not charge you an additional fee should you need to repeat a course.)

When you have passed all ten courses, you print your certificate and then follow our instructions for renewing your license (details).

The following table summarizes the ten courses comprising our 45-Hour Package:

	DRE Category	CE Hrs	Recovery Period	No. of Questions	Pages in Textbook
*20-Hours* (Mandatory topics)	♦ Ethics ♦ Agency ♦ Trust Funds ♦ Fair Housing ♦ Risk Management ♦ Management & Supervision ♦ Implicit Bias Training	3 3 3 3 3 3 2	3 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 3 hrs 2 hrs	16 16 16 16 16 16 10	36 41 37 39 35 60 40
Defensive Real Estate Consumer Protection Reader Consumer Services Reader	♦ Consumer Protection ♦ Consumer Protection ♦ Consumer Services	10 8 7	10hrs 8hrs 7hrs	30 20 20	111 79 75
Total		45		176	553

IMPORTANT: In compliance with DRE regulations, we require at least four days for study after paid registration before we permit you take any final exam; and we limit the number of course-hours you may complete to 15-hours in any 24-hour period. Therefore, the minimum number of days needed to pass all courses assuming you do not fail any course is a little over six days. For a detailed explanation of how you may pass all eight courses in the 45-hour package in six days, click here.

DOUBLY IMPORTANT: You have two chances to pass the exam for any course. Should you fail its first exam, you may immediately attempt to pass a second exam composed of different questions. Should you fail the second exam, you must start from the beginning for that course; that is, you must re-read its course material, retake its quiz, and wait for its recovery period to pass (see above table) before making another attempt to pass the course (or any other course).

We guarantee that DRE will accept the CE credits you earn providing you complete the package within one year. We also guarantee that our CE package will provide all the CE you need to renew your license no matter how you are licensed (salesperson, broker, corporation) and no matter if you are renewing for the first time or subsequently.

Click here to view our DRE-approved general information page.

$44.¹⁰ if you pass our Demo first.

After you pass your exams, we provide a “certificate.” It lists the DRE-assigned “certificate number” for each course. You will enter these eight numbers when prompted by DRE’s license renewal site (eLicensing). We provide renewal instructions and a link to DRE’s renewal site once you have completed all courses.