Virginia Real Estate CE Courses Online (VA License Renewal)
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Virginia Real Estate CE Course Packages
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May the Code Be With You
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.
VA Legal Update
Staying up to date on legal changes that impact real estate practice is every licensee’s responsibility. Understanding current laws enables licensees to more professionally support and advise their clients and ensure they remain in compliance with the standards of the industry.
In 2023 and 2024, the Commonwealth passed numerous changes to existing laws and introduced new ones. Virginia Legal Update covers changes relating to continuing education requirements, license reciprocity, appraisal, common interest communities, leasing, settlement, and tax exemptions for disabled veterans. Also crucial to a licensee’s understanding is the National Flood Insurance Program, flood hazard area mapping, and how flooding issues can impact a real estate transaction. Case studies and examples help bring the content to life and help licensees apply ethics to their real estate practice.
Virginia Broker Management
This course is designed to fulfill the broker management continuing education requirement. It addresses the planning of a new brokerage business as well as its ongoing operation. The course reviews key provisions of the Code of Virginia and the Virginia Administrative Code that address the supervisory obligations of a Virginia broker related to brokerage office management, licensure, and the real estate activities of their associated licensees.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
- Consider decisions associated with starting a real estate brokerage
- Recall laws related to setting up a Virginia brokerage office
- Identify various types of legal business structure
- Recall Virginia licensing laws and the use of fictitious names
- Recall the duties of a Virginia supervising broker
- Discuss the importance of developing a business plan and defining a company’s mission
- Describe how to define and achieve specific, attainable, and measurable goals
- Recall the types of acceptable agency relationships allowed in Virginia
- Identify requirements related to Virginia real estate teams
- Recall the education and experience requirements for initial broker licensing in Virginia
- Discuss various costs associated with opening and operating a business
- Recall Virginia requirements for financial record management and Board audit procedures
- Identify considerations for developing a company website
- Identify considerations related to financing a business and describe different types of financial statements
- Distinguish between employees and independent contractors and consider other compensation issues
- Recall Virginia statutes and regulations addressing compensation
- Describe the personnel in a brokerage office
- Identify what tasks unlicensed personal assistants in Virginia can
Virginia Law Combo
This course is designed to fulfill four hours of real estate continuing education credit in the state of Virginia. The objective of this course to provide students with an overview of mandatory topics, including Fair Housing, Contract Law and Agency Law.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to
- Summarize the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and amendments to that act
- Explain why Fair Housing is important in the real estate industry
- Describe how to avoid discriminatory practices in sales, rentals and financing
- Identify and recall the basic tenets of Virginia fair housing laws and regulations, including the protected classes in the Commonwealth, who is exempt from fair housing laws, and a real estate licensee’s responsibility to ensure no one experiences housing discrimination
- Discuss the legal responsibilities of an agent
- Summarize how contracts are created and terminated
- Describe the unlawful practice of law and recall the contract preparation limitations in Virginia
- Recall deadlines for filing breach of contract lawsuits under the Virginia statute of limitations
- Identify the fiduciary responsibilities of an agent
- Distinguish how agencies are created and terminated
- Recall specific requirements in Virginia related to the use of written brokerage agreements
- Differentiate the pros and cons of types of agencies, with emphasis on buyer agency
- Recall a Virginia buyer agent’s statutory duties to buyers and sellers and the scope of ministerial services
- Recall a Virginia licensee’s duty to disclose agency to unrepresented parties
Virginia Law Combo
Staying up to date on legal changes that impact real estate practice is every licensee’s responsibility. Understanding current laws enables licensees to remain compliant while upholding the professional standards of their industry.
Virginia Legal Update
The practice of real estate in Virginia has seen a turbulent and exciting time in the last few years. Markets have adjusted, sales volumes have fallen and risen, and a number of legislative items have passed in the state. This course will cover some of the more important legislative updates passed and effective in 2023 that impact the real estate business. This course is approved for one hour of continuing education.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify updates to the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation’s licensing law specific to reciprocity and appraisers.
- Describe updates to laws related to common interest communities with a specific focus on resale disclosures.
- Recall updated provisions impacting residential leasing including post-lease repairs, uninhabitable property lease termination, rent increase notice, assistance animals, and the Statement of Tenants Rights & Responsibilities form.
- Recall updated provisions impacting settlement laws specific to release from judgment liens and collection of settlement fees.
- Describe how an update to tax exemption law benefits veterans with a disability.
- Review key information about the National Flood Insurance Program and how to access current maps of flood hazard areas.
Educating Homebuyers
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
Educating Sellers
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.
Handling Multiple Offers
Implicit Bias Awareness and Cultural Competency
Real Estate Investing: Beyond the Basics
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
Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients
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
Taking the Distress Out of Distressed Properties
OC: VA Legal Update
Staying up to date on legal changes that impact real estate practice is every licensee’s responsibility. Understanding current laws enables licensees to more professionally support and advise their clients and ensure they remain in compliance with the standards of the industry.
In 2023 and 2024, the Commonwealth passed numerous changes to existing laws and introduced new ones. Virginia Legal Update covers changes relating to continuing education requirements, license reciprocity, appraisal, common interest communities, leasing, settlement, and tax exemptions for disabled veterans. Also crucial to a licensee’s understanding is the National Flood Insurance Program, flood hazard area mapping, and how flooding issues can impact a real estate transaction. Case studies and examples help bring the content to life and help licensees apply ethics to their real estate practice.
OC: Virginia Legal Update
The practice of real estate in Virginia has seen a turbulent and exciting time in the last few years. Markets have adjusted, sales volumes have fallen and risen, and a number of legislative items have passed in the state. This course will cover some of the more important legislative updates passed and effective in 2023 that impact the real estate business. This course is approved for one hour of continuing education.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify updates to the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation’s licensing law specific to reciprocity and appraisers.
- Describe updates to laws related to common interest communities with a specific focus on resale disclosures.
- Recall updated provisions impacting residential leasing including post-lease repairs, uninhabitable property lease termination, rent increase notice, assistance animals, and the Statement of Tenants Rights & Responsibilities form.
- Recall updated provisions impacting settlement laws specific to release from judgment liens and collection of settlement fees.
- Describe how an update to tax exemption law benefits veterans with a disability.
- Review key information about the National Flood Insurance Program and how to access current maps of flood hazard areas.
Online Correspondence: Virginia Broker Management
This course is designed to fulfill the broker management continuing education requirement. It addresses the planning of a new brokerage business as well as its ongoing operation. The course reviews key provisions of the Code of Virginia and the Virginia Administrative Code that address the supervisory obligations of a Virginia broker related to brokerage office management, licensure, and the real estate activities of their associated licensees.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
- Consider decisions associated with starting a real estate brokerage
- Recall laws related to setting up a Virginia brokerage office
- Identify various types of legal business structure
- Recall Virginia licensing laws and the use of fictitious names
- Recall the duties of a Virginia supervising broker
- Discuss the importance of developing a business plan and defining a company’s mission
- Describe how to define and achieve specific, attainable, and measurable goals
- Recall the types of acceptable agency relationships allowed in Virginia
- Identify requirements related to Virginia real estate teams
- Recall the education and experience requirements for initial broker licensing in Virginia
- Discuss various costs associated with opening and operating a business
- Recall Virginia requirements for financial record management and Board audit procedures
- Identify considerations for developing a company website
- Identify considerations related to financing a business and describe different types of financial statements
- Distinguish between employees and independent contractors and consider other compensation issues
- Recall Virginia statutes and regulations addressing compensation
- Describe the personnel in a brokerage office
- Identify what tasks unlicensed personal assistants in Virginia can and cannot do
- Assess different ways of recruiting agents and how to conduct an interview
- Recall a Virginia licensee’s obligations related to license maintenance
- Recall the training obligations of a Virginia broker
- Identify Virginia requirements related to the preparation of contracts
- Identify typical disclosures that might be required
- Recognize examples of fraud, misrepresentation, and other unethical practices
- Recall various topics that present training opportunities
- Recall Virginia regulations that address advertising practices and improper dealing
- Contrast various marketing strategies
- Recall a Virginia licensee’s obligation to disclose agency relationships
- Discuss negotiating tips
- Identify a Virginia licensee’s duties to buyer and seller clients and customers
- Describe a Virginia licensee’s duties related to instrument delivery and identify threats to a successful closing
- Review federal antitrust, fair housing, and real estate settlement laws
- Recall requirements for managing escrow accounts in Virginia
- Identify strategies for handing lawsuits
- Describe topics that should be covered in an employee handbook
- Identify prohibited acts and explain the disciplinary authority of the Virginia Real Estate Board
- Recall fair housing requirements under Virginia law
- Recall Virginia eviction requirements and process
Online Correspondence: Virginia Law Combo
This course is designed to fulfill four hours of real estate continuing education credit in the state of Virginia. The objective of this course to provide students with an overview of mandatory topics, including Fair Housing, Contract Law and Agency Law.
Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to
- Summarize the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and amendments to that act
- Explain why Fair Housing is important in the real estate industry
- Describe how to avoid discriminatory practices in sales, rentals and financing
- Identify and recall the basic tenets of Virginia fair housing laws and regulations, including the protected classes in the Commonwealth, who is exempt from fair housing laws, and a real estate licensee’s responsibility to ensure no one experiences housing discrimination
- Discuss the legal responsibilities of an agent
- Summarize how contracts are created and terminated
- Describe the unlawful practice of law and recall the contract preparation limitations in Virginia
- Recall deadlines for filing breach of contract lawsuits under the Virginia statute of limitations
- Identify the fiduciary responsibilities of an agent
- Distinguish how agencies are created and terminated
- Recall specific requirements in Virginia related to the use of written brokerage agreements
- Differentiate the pros and cons of types of agencies, with emphasis on buyer agency
- Recall a Virginia buyer agent’s statutory duties to buyers and sellers and the scope of ministerial services
- Recall a Virginia licensee’s duty to disclose agency to unrepresented parties
Online Correspondence: Virginia Law Combo
Staying up to date on legal changes that impact real estate practice is every licensee’s responsibility. Understanding current laws enables licensees to remain compliant while upholding the professional standards of their industry.
Online Correspondence: A Day in the Life of a Buyer Agent
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Learn how to communicate effectively with your client
- Explore useful tools you need to make a successful sale
- Gain insights on the fiduciary duties, the process, and possible issues in a real estate transaction
- Pocket useful tips on buyer preferences, locating suitable properties and constructing an offer
Online Correspondence: Educating Homebuyers
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
Online Correspondence: Educating Sellers
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.
Online Correspondence: Going Green: Elements of an Eco-friendly Home
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
Online Correspondence: How to Work with Real Estate Investors – Part 1
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Boost your knowledge of working with real estate investors.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Explore insights on the investor market and uncover opportunities to grow your business
- Learn the skillsets, terminology and experience required to work with investor clients
- Gain confidence in evaluating an investment property
- Supplement your learning with real world case studies, worksheets, audio, and video
Online Correspondence: Real Estate Investing: Beyond the Basics
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- 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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How to renew a Real Estate License in Virginia
Real estate agents need to renew their licenses at regular intervals as a requirement by the Virginia Real Estate Board. The process of renewing your real estate license in Virginia is fairly simple and includes the following steps:
01. Complete your Virginia Real Estate CE Course.
The first step towards renewing your Virginia real estate license is completing the required state-approved Virginia Continuing Education course.
02. Complete your Virginia real estate license renewal application.
Once you have completed your continuing education course and course exam, you need to go to the Virginia Real Estate Board website and update your course completion numbers.
03. Pay the Virginia real estate license renewal fees.
Lastly, you need to pay the renewal fees to complete the renewal process.
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FAQs
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 for your real estate license renewal in Virginia.
Below are the credit hour requirements to renew your real estate license in Virginia:
Salesperson: 16 hours
Broker: 24 hours
Your Virginia Real Estate license must be renewed online through the Virginia Real Estate Board after completing your Virginia state-approved CE courses.
License renewal cost for Virginia Salesperson license renewal:
Course Fee: $149
License Renewal Fee: $65
Late Fee: $100
License renewal cost for Virginia Broker license renewal:
Course Fee: $169
License Renewal Fee: $80
Late Fee: $120
Here’s how often you need to renew your real estate license in Virginia:
Salesperson: Every 24 months
Broker: Every 24 months