3 Simple Steps To Renew Your License
[View Renewal Steps on TREC website]
Pay Your Renewal Fee and File Early – To renew your license timely you must have your Continuing Education (CE) completed and posted to your record at the time the renewal fee is paid. The renewal fee must be paid within 90 days of the license expiration date. Effective January 1, 2015, if Commission records do not show that you have completed your CE at the time you submit your renewal application, you must pay a $200 CE deferral fee, or renew in INACTIVE status. Paying the deferral fee will allow you to continue to be active in real estate activities and give you an additional 60 days from your expiration date to complete your CE.
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- See what CE/SAE classes you have already completed and has been recorded at the STATE since your last renewal. Make sure not to repeat any classes you took for your last renewal. The exception would would be the required Legal I & Legal II. (18 required hours of CE and 98 required hours of SAE. Note: SAE must also complete the (Legal I & Legal II). [View Your Education at TREC]
- Take Required Courses:
- CE Classes – The CE requirement is a TOTAL of 18 Hours of TREC approved CE courses. [Enroll Now]
- At least four of the 18 hours must consist of a four hour Legal I course and a four hour Legal II course. Agents and brokers renewing their CE license must also complete a 3-hour contracts related course.
- Agents and Brokers may take the New Broker Responsibility Course (6 Hours) for CE renewal but Agents and Brokers who meet the following critieria are required to take it. A broker who sponsors one or more salespersons, a designated broker of a licensed business entity, or a license holder who supervises another license holder, must take a six hour broker responsibility course. The six hour course may be used to satisfy 6 of the 18 hours in CE that must be completed by the license expiration date of each license term to renew a license on active status.[View TREC FAQ’s on Who Has To Complete The Broker Responsibility Course]
- SAE Classes – 1st Time Renewal requirement is TOTAL of 98 Hours of TREC approved SAE courses. [Enroll Now]
- To renew your Salespersons License for the First Time, (two years after passing the Texas real estate licensing exam), you must fulfill the Sales Apprentice Education (SAE) requirement by having a total of 270 qualifying real estate course hours. If you obtained your license by submitting 180 hours of qualifying courses, you will need an additional 90 hours of Sales Apprentice Education (SAE) of which (Starting from October 1, 2023) the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) mandates the inclusion of the 30-hour Real Estate Brokerage course as a compulsory component of your Sales Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements and the other 60 Hours of Elective Sales Apprentice Education (SAE) courses are of your choice. In addition to your 90 Hours of SAE the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) also requires 4 Hours of Legal Update I and 4 Hours of Legal Update II courses. This will fulfill your 98 Hours of 1st Time Renewal SAE to renew your license. Sales agents who have been made a supervisor by their broker must also take the 6-hour Broker Responsibility course to renew.
- Education providers are now required to post SAE completions into TREC’s system for licensed real estate sales agents. All students taking our TREC SAE courses will be asked to provide their license number upon course launch. This update eliminates the need for licensed sales agents and brokers (applying for renewal or a license upgrade application) to send their course completion certificate(s) directly to TREC. All completion certificates of the courses taken are reported by 360training.com to TREC with 24-48 business hours of completion.
- Renew your license online with the STATE. Login, complete the renewal questions, and pay your online renewal fee. [STATE Renewal Page]
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