Virginia Real Estate CE Courses Online (VA License Renewal)

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

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

Virginia Real Estate CE Course Packages

VA First Time Renewal Requirements Post Requirements

Total Hours Required: 30 hrs
Renewal Cycle: 24 months
Education Cycle: 12 months
Next Education Due Date:

What You Need To Renew

Mandatory Hours: 30 hrs
Elective Hours:

30 total hours every 24 months

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What You Need To Renew

Mandatory Hours: 30 hrs
Elective Hours:

30 total hours every 24 months

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Post-License Course (30 Hrs)

155
Why it’s for you:
  • You are a newly licensed Virginia salesperson.
  • Courses in this package meet all of your state post-licensing requirements.
  • Free 1-year RISMedia Premier Membership
What’s included:
Mandatory Hours: 30 hrs

Total Hours: 30 hrs
Post-License Course:

Post-License Course package provides the essential tools to complete this education requirement when and how you want to. With self-paced online courses, complete coursework from anywhere, on your own time, at your own speed.

  • Fulfill the state-required Post-License course hours with this approved, mandatory course experience.
  • Work directly with expert local instructors whom you can email or call with questions.

RISMedia Premier Membership:

Unlock a world of unlimited access to best-in-class journalism, reports, educational tools, and exclusive events to fuel your professional growth with RISMedia Premier! A Premier annual membership is valued at $249.00. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits you can enjoy as a Premier member:

  • Unlimited access to RISMedia’s Premier contact catalog.
  • Exclusive access to our monthly Premier Reports, offering invaluable market analysis and trends.
  • Free admission to our engaging webinars and virtual events, including RISMedia’s Annual Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year.
  • Special discounted rates for all of RISMedia’s in-person events, including the highly anticipated RISMedia’s Annual CEO & Leadership Exchange.
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Post-License Course & Printed Book (30 Hrs)

189
Why it’s for you:
  • You are a newly licensed Virginia salesperson.
  • Courses in this package meet all of your state post-licensing requirements.
  • This includes the printed course textbook.
  • Free 1-year RISMedia Premier Membership
What’s included:
Mandatory Hours: 30 hrs

Total Hours: 30 hrs
Post-License Course:

Post-License Course package provides the essential tools to complete this education requirement when and how you want to. With self-paced online courses, complete coursework from anywhere, on your own time, at your own speed.

  • Fulfill the state-required Post-License course hours with this approved, mandatory course experience.
  • Work directly with expert local instructors whom you can email or call with questions.

RISMedia Premier Membership:

Unlock a world of unlimited access to best-in-class journalism, reports, educational tools, and exclusive events to fuel your professional growth with RISMedia Premier! A Premier annual membership is valued at $249.00. Here’s a snapshot of the benefits you can enjoy as a Premier member:

  • Unlimited access to RISMedia’s Premier contact catalog.
  • Exclusive access to our monthly Premier Reports, offering invaluable market analysis and trends.
  • Free admission to our engaging webinars and virtual events, including RISMedia’s Annual Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year.
  • Special discounted rates for all of RISMedia’s in-person events, including the highly anticipated RISMedia’s Annual CEO & Leadership Exchange.
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Mandatory

May the Code Be With You

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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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Mandatory

Virginia Broker Management

8

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
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Mandatory

Virginia Law Combo

4

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
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Online
Mandatory

Virginia Legal Update

1

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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Online
Elective

Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients

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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
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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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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 Professional Licensing Agency. 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 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.

Discover why professionals choose Colibri Real Estate as their preferred partners for CE in Virginia. 

Excellent course for all Real Estate professionals. Whether you are new to the business or one who has been in the business for over 50 years like me.

Earl M.

Virginia

Very useful information that is comprehensive, yet easy to understand and retain. The study guide and lecture notes provide valuable information that helps one gain valuable insight.

Eric F.

Virginia

This is a great way to obtain your CE credits. Convenient and packed with great and timely information that will serve the student well today and in the future.

Stevynn G.

Virginia

FAQs

What is real estate continuing education needed in Virginia? 

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.

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

Below are the credit hour requirements to renew your real estate license in Virginia:
Salesperson: 16 hours
Broker: 24 hours  

How do I renew my real estate license in Virginia?

Your Virginia Real Estate license must be renewed online through the Virginia Real Estate Board after completing your Virginia state-approved CE courses. 

How much does it cost to renew your real estate license in Virginia? 

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 

How often do you have to renew your real estate license in Virginia? 

Here’s how often you need to renew your real estate license in Virginia: 
Salesperson: Every 24 months 
Broker: Every 24 months 

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