Start your journey toward becoming a licensed real estate agent with our 180-hour pre-licensing course — built to fit your schedule, pace, and learning style.
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180 Hour Real Estate Pre-Licensing
Six 30-Hour Courses
Principles of Real Estate I, Principles of Real Estate II, Law of Agency, Law of Contracts, Promulgated Contract Forms, and Real Estate Finance.
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As little as 5 weeks!
Treated like a 40-hour work week, your education can be completed quickly so you can move on with your new real estate career.
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If you've already taken part of the 180 hours of education required in Texas, we can help you complete the rest. Click on the link to find each 30-hour Texas course below.
Texas State Requirement Details for Real Estate Pre-Licensing Education
- Please Note: A criminal conviction may affect a student's ability to become licensed. If a student has committed criminal offenses, has unpaid judgments, etc., the student may request a Fitness Determination (FD) from TREC prior to filing an application. This step may save time in pursuing a license if the student does not satisfy TREC’s qualifications for honesty, trustworthiness, and integrity.
- See TREC's Fitness Determination page for more information.
- Hours Required by the State: 180 hours
- 30 hours in Principles of Real Estate I
- 30 hours in Principles of Real Estate II
- 30 hours in Law of Agency
- 30 hours in Law of Contracts
- 30 hours in Real Estate Finance
- 30 hours in Promulgated Contract Forms
Certificates
Immediately upon course completions, The CE Shop will provide students with an electronic copy of the course certificate of completion. Certificates will remain in your account for a minimum of five years, should you need additional copies at a later time. Please refer to your application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.
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Licensing Exam
- The licensing exam is administered by PearsonVue. Registration for the state licensing exam is an entirely separate process from proctoring for your course final exam. For instructions to register for your state licensing exam and further information, please click here.
- Provider Approval Number: 701046
- The CE Shop’s Offering: 180 hours
- Reporting: The state does not require schools to report qualifying course completions. Students will submit their certificate of completion with their license application.
Expiration Date of Course
- The CE Shop’s Pre-Licensing courses expire six months after the date of purchase. Each student will be granted a one-month extension at no charge, to be applied immediately after the initial six-month term. For any reactivation or extension of the course after the seventh month, The CE Shop will charge the student 20% of the current retail price of the course for each 30-day extension or partial 30-day extension in the event that the course finally terminates before the end of the final 30-day extension. Students may also elect to re-enroll for 50% of the current retail price of the course, if the course has hit the year expiration or the student is at the 7 month mark and wants to repurchase and restart the course and enrollment. Extensions or reactivations cannot be granted beyond 12 months from the purchase of the course since, in all events, the course terminates 12 months after purchase.
Proctored Course Final Exam
The state requires your course final exam to be proctored. You can find full details of the proctoring process here. Upon passing the final course exam, you will be asked to sign an affidavit verifying your identity as the student who completed the course and the final course exam. Course final exams must be passed with a minimum of 70%. Within 90 days after the original class concludes, a student may retest after a failed exam a maximum of one time. Otherwise, students failing the end-of-course examination must repeat the course prior to being eligible to take the end-of-course examination again.
Max Hours in a 24-Hour Period
Students will not receive credit for more than 12 hours of prelicense education in a 24-hour period. Our online course delivery system manages this requirement for you. A 30-hour qualifying course cannot be started and completed in less than 3 days.
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