Iowa Real Estate Continuing Education Online Courses

    Prepare for easy license renewal with convenient courses developed by industry experts. With comprehensive education for Iowa real estate license renewal, you can meet full state requirements – all online in one place.

    Online courses to renew Iowa sales agent and broker license with CE classes through Colibri Real Estate

    Iowa Real Estate CE Packages

    IA All Requirements

    License Expiration Date: 12/31/2023
    Next Education Due Date: 12/31/2023

    What You Need

    Mandatory Hours: 12 hrs
    Elective Hours: 24 hrs
    Total Hours Required: 36 hrs

    License Requirements

    Salesperson with Core Courses (24 Hrs)

    179
    Why it’s for you:
    • Complete your Iowa CE requirements with expert-led and designed elective courses.
    • Take courses online at your own pace.
    • This may meet your NAR and ethics requirements for Iowa.
    What’s included:
    Mandatory Hours: 12 hrs
    Electives: 12 hrs
    Total Hours: 24 hrs
    Courses:
    • Iowa Real Estate Law Update Course: This course will help you stay up-to-date on legislation that is relevant to Iowa real estate professionals. Highlights include revew of federal and state real estate laws, and recent changes.
    • Ethical Dilemmas for Iowa Real Estate Professionals: In this course, expect to gain useful insights on the ethics and communication in real estate. Highlights include differentiation between legal and ethical standards, and deeper insight into fair housing practices.
    • NAR: May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.
    • Handling Multiple Offers: Multiple offers often happen in a seller’s market when competition for residential property is greatest and there are more buyers than there are properties for sale. However, it can occur in any market and especially for properties within an affordable price range. In this course, prepare for how to handle the scenario, no matter the market condition.
    • Implicit Bias Awareness and Cultural Competency: This course explores implicit, unconscious biases and how, by understanding them, we can interact and communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
    • Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients: In this course, learn safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. Explore tips for protecting yourself and clients, identify safety tips for getting a client’s home ready to sell, and learn how to conduct safe showings.
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    Salesperson with Elective Courses (24 Hrs)

    179
    Why it’s for you:
    • Complete your Iowa CE requirements with expert-led and designed elective courses.
    • Take courses online at your own pace.
    • This may meet your NAR and ethics requirements for Iowa.
    What’s included:
    Electives: 24 hrs
    Total Hours: 24 hrs
    Courses:
    • NAR: May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.
    • Handling Multiple Offers: Multiple offers often happen in a seller’s market when competition for residential property is greatest and there are more buyers than there are properties for sale. However, it can occur in any market and especially for properties within an affordable price range. In this course, prepare for how to handle the scenario, no matter the market condition.
    • Implicit Bias Awareness and Cultural Competency: This course explores implicit, unconscious biases and how, by understanding them, we can interact and communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
    • Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients: In this course, learn safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. Explore tips for protecting yourself and clients, identify safety tips for getting a client’s home ready to sell, and learn how to conduct safe showings.
    • Finding Your Focus: Niche Marketing for Real Estate: This course is designed to help agents identify a niche that they may want to specialize in and to be able to market themselves as an expert so that all customers are receiving the best care possible by an experienced expert in the industry.
    • Going Green: Elements of an Eco-friendly Home: Nearly 40% of home buyers consider energy efficient features to be “very important.” This course will help you guide homebuyers in their search with insights on how to reduce their environmental footprint, costs of sustainable homes, and pros and cons of eco-friendly materials and homes.
    • Taking the Distress Out of Distressed Properties: Learn from industry experts who have worked closely with distressed property transactions. Though foreclosures and short sale properties aren’t as prevalent as they were following the housing bubble burst, there are still homeowners considering short sales as a way to avoid foreclosure. There are also lenders interested in reducing their inventory of foreclosed properties. In this course, learn how to expand your business while serving the needs of sellers, buyers, and lenders.
    • Educating Homebuyers: This course provides the tools, techniques, and insights needed to guide buyers through the homebuying process. Help buyers find homes in the current market, prepare finances, negotiate, and more.
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    Mandatory

    Ethical Dilemmas for Iowa Real Estate Professionals

    4
    Gain useful insights on the ethics and communication in real estate. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Learn how to differentiate between legal and ethical standards
    • Advance your knowledge of Fair Housing practices
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    175-6457-ME
    Online
    Mandatory

    Iowa Real Estate Law Update Course

    8
    Stay up-to-date on legislation that is relevant to Iowa real estate professionals. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Review several federal and state real estate laws 
    • Learn about recent changes made to real estate laws
    89
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    175-6464-ML
    Online
    Elective

    A New Look at Contract Law

    3
    Gain valuable insights on the least understood – and most-used document in real estate: the contract. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Take a unique look at contracts including their history, evolution and definitions 
    • Learn how to create a valid contract and the proper format
    • Gain insights on contract types and Statute of Frauds 
    • Learn how to recognize a breach of contract
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    175-6454-E
    Online
    Elective

    Educating Homebuyers

    3
    Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
    • Gain confidence teaching buyers about the buying process 
    • Learn to show buyers how to get their finances to purchase a home
    • Know how to help buyers systematically search for a home in in their current market 
    • Understand how to teach buyers how to negotiate like a pro 
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    175-6455-E
    Online
    Elective

    Educating Sellers

    2
    Being a listing agent is a huge responsibility. Do you feel confident educating your sellers about the process? In this course, we will provide you with tools and information to help you educate sellers so that you can secure listings and smoothly guide your sellers to successful closings. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
    • Educate your sellers during the listing presentation. 
    • Teach your clients of the importance of staging to sell.
    • Help sellers understand strategies when their home hasn’t sold.
    • Teach sellers how to evaluate and handle multiple offers.
    • Help sellers better navigate contract negotiations.
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    175-6456-E
    Online
    Elective

    Fair Housing

    4
    Gain a working knowledge of the history and key points of both federal and state-specific fair housing laws. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Discuss fair housing law developments through the years
    • Examine advertising policies and exemptions through case studies
    • Pocket useful tips on how to stay clear of discriminatory practices in sales, rentals, and financing of real estate
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    175-6459-E
    Online
    Elective

    Finding Your Focus: Niche Marketing for Real Estate

    3
    Transform your real estate business by exploring and identifying a real estate specialty suited for your interests, market, and skills. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Uncover processes for thinking strategically about developing a real estate specialty 
    • Explore different real estate niches and their potential opportunities 
    • Identify strategies for marketing your niche
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    175-6460-E
    Online
    Elective

    Going Green: Elements of an Eco-friendly Home

    3
    Nearly 40% of home buyers consider energy efficient features to be “very important.” This course will help you grow your knowledge of the ins and outs of eco-friendly living. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Learn how homebuyers can reduce their environmental footprint 
    • Examine the costs of sustainable materials 
    • Explore pros and cons to eco-friendly materials and homes
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    175-6461-E
    Online
    Elective

    Handling Multiple Offers

    2
    Multiple offers often happen in a seller’s market when competition for residential property is greatest and there are more buyers than there are properties for sale. However, it can occur in any market and especially for properties within an affordable price range.
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    175-6462-E
    Online
    Elective

    Implicit Bias Awareness and Cultural Competency

    4
    This course describes implicit (unconscious) biases, how they are created, and how by understanding them we can interact and communicate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. No matter if you are new to the business or are a veteran real estate agent, your success depends on your ability to work with other people. And now those people are multifaceted, multiracial, and multicultural.
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    175-6463-E
    Online
    Elective

    NAR: Ethics in the Age of Disruption

    3
    This course was created and designed to train and instruct REALTORS® on the practical application of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics and fulfills the REALTOR® Triennial Ethics Requirement.
    Every three years, the National Association of REALTORS® requires members to complete a REALTOR® Code of Ethics course in order to remain in good standing with their local, state, and national associations.
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    175-6458-E
    Online
    Elective

    NAR: May the Code Be With You

    3
    This continuing education course addresses the specifics of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and ethical practices and decision-making for real estate professionals. Additionally, this course may potentially be approvable for REALTORS® who wish to fulfill Code of Ethics requirement from the National Association of REALTORS®. Check with your local REALTORS® association.
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    175-6465-E
    Online
    Elective

    Real Estate Investing: Beyond the Basics

    4
    Take your real estate business to the level by expanding your knowledge of real estate investing. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Narration
    • Learn how to use an investment property worksheet to analyze a property 
    • Explore how to determine a property’s investment value quickly and effectively 
    • Uncover the ins and outs of the passive loss rules 
    • Examine how to maximize the tax-savings benefits of depreciation through a bifurcation strategy
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    175-6466-E
    Online
    Elective

    Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients

    3
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    Learn safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. 

    COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 
    • Explore tips for protecting yourself and your clients
    • Identify safety tips for getting a client’s home ready to sell
    • Learn how to conduct safe showings
    39
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    175-6467-E
    Updated with a new chapter on the COVID-19 pandemic where we discuss how real estate licensees can safely resume their business!
    Online
    Elective

    Taking the Distress Out of Distressed Properties

    3
    You’ll learn from experts who have prospered in their real estate careers by working with distressed property transactions. Foreclosed and short sale properties were very prevalent after the housing bubble burst, but their numbers are much lower today. Still, there are homeowners who want to consider short sales as a way to avoid foreclosure, and there are lenders that want to reduce their inventory of foreclosed properties. This real estate market is one way to expand your business while serving the needs of sellers, buyers, and lenders.
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    175-6468-E

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    It was easy to understand, and the quizzes helped with the final exam.

    Janet S.

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    I found the Ethics Course was very interesting and thorough. The examples were helpful.

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    Iowa

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    Iowa

    FAQs

    What is real estate continuing education?

    Continuing Education or CE courses are required for retaining and renewing your real estate license. Colibri offers a range of accredited real estate CE courses and classes in Iowa.

    What are the continuing education requirements for real estate in Iowa?

    Iowa does not require post-licensing.

    How many hours of continuing education are required for Iowa real estate license?

    You are required to complete 24 hours of continuing education by your education renewal deadline for your license in Iowa.

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