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How to Get Your Real Estate License
How to get your real estate license
STEP BY STEP
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Step 1: Complete your Pre-Licensing Education
Begin your real estate journey with state-approved courses from an accredited school (like us!). Complete your required hours and earn your certificate to apply for your license.
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Step 2: Pass your Real Estate Exam
Once you’ve completed your pre-licensing course, you’ll apply to take your state’s licensing exam. Our exam prep courses, with practice tests and state-specific questions, ensure you’re ready to succeed.
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Step 3: Launch Your Career
Congrats! Now that you’ve passed your state exam, you’ll officially apply for your real estate license and begin looking for a brokerage to sponsor and support your career goals. Our helpful insights, tips, and continuing education courses are here to champion you through every step of your journey.
Complete your pre-licensing education
Pass your real estate exam
Launch your career
Step 1: Complete your
pre-licensing education
Get started in real estate with state-approved courses from an accredited school (like us!). Complete your required hours and earn the certificate needed to apply for your license.
Step 2: Pass your Real Estate Exam
Once you’ve completed your pre-licensing course, you’ll apply to take your state’s licensing exam. Our exam prep courses, with practice tests and state-specific questions, ensure you’re ready to succeed.
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Step 3: Launch Your Career
Congrats! Now that you’ve passed your state exam, you’ll officially apply for your real estate license and begin looking for a brokerage to sponsor and support your career goals. Our helpful insights, tips, and continuing education courses are here to champion you through every step of your journey.
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Why Colibri Real Estate
Pass your exam on the first try—or don’t pay.
Prepare with industry-leading exam prep. If you don’t pass on your first attempt, we’ll reimburse the cost of your pre-licensing package—guaranteed.
Flexible learning formats that fit your life.
Choose between self-paced online courses or instructor-led Livestream classes—designed to fit your schedule, pace, and goals.
Local expertise, trusted nationwide.
Learn from experienced real estate professionals in your state, backed by a community of over 1.5 million students nationwide.
Support for every stage of your career.
From pre-licensing to exam prep, post-licensing, and continuing education, Colibri Real Estate supports your growth beyond day one.
Why Colibri Real Estate
Start without risk
With Ultimate Learning and Exam Prep packages, our Pass or Don’t Pay Guarantee helps remove uncertainty – so you can move forward with confidence.
Learn your way
Need flexibility? Choose the online option to go at your pace on your schedule. Need more structure? Livestream offers accountability and real-time instruction
Local expertise, trusted nationwide
Learn from experienced real estate professionals in your state, backed by a community of over 1.5 million students nationwide.
Support for every stage of your career
From pre-licensing to exam prep, post-licensing, and continuing education, Colibri Real Estate supports your growth beyond day one.
The trusted real estate school for over 1.5 million students nationwide. And counting.
Meet and hear from students who chose Colibri to help them launch and grow a thriving real estate career.
To set our students up for success, we provide industry-leading real estate courses, resources, and expertise. Hear what our students have to say about our real estate classes and more:
See what our online real estate courses are like
Our online real estate courses combine flexible self-paced and Livestream learning with a simple, easy-to-use platform designed to keep you on track.
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- ARELLO Award Winning Student Dashboard
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Answers to Common Questions:
FAQs
Getting your real estate license generally takes between four to six months. However, this may vary by state as each state has unique requirements when it comes to course durations, application processes, background checks and examination schedules.
Real estate licenses in the US are only available at a state-level. Each state has a set of requirements that need to be met to become a real estate agent. This involves meeting their qualifying criteria, completing your state-specific real estate pre licensing course and passing your real estate licensing exam.
Read more on how to become a real estate agent.
The total cost of getting a real estate license in the U.S. can range depending on your state. The total cost includes various fees, such as your course fees, application fees, background check fees, and examination fees.
In most states you do not need to be a U.S. citizen to become a real estate agent. Non-citizens who are legal permanent residents can also apply to get their license if they meet the states’ requirements.