Real Estate School Washington

PLEASE NOTE: We provide the following renewal information as a courtesy and it may change at any time. It is the individual licensee's responsibility to be sure that he or she meets the requirements for his or her own particular license renewal circumstance(s).

Washington Licensee Renewal Requirements

  • Total Hours: 30
  • Mandatory/Core: 6
  • Elective: 24
  • Renewal Cycle: 2 years

Minimum of 30 hours of approved real estate education every 2 years. Must include the 3-hour Current Issues in Washington Residential Real Estate (Core) course and the 3-hour Washington Real Estate Fair Housing course. Remaining credits can be any approved elective credits. At least 15 of the 30 hours must be completed within the 24 months before your renewal date; up to 15 hours may be completed within 48 months of your renewal date if they were not used for a previous renewal. All of our courses and packages are approved WA CE courses.

Fair Housing Requirement
If you have not yet taken the initial 6-hour Washington Real Estate Fair Housing course, you must take it first. After that, you must take the 3-hour Washington Real Estate Fair Housing course each time you renew.

For additional questions about Washington license renewal requirements, please contact the: Washington State Dept of Licensing at (360) 664-6488.

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Washington First Time Renewal Requirements

  • Total Hours: 90
  • Mandatory/Core: 63
  • Elective: 27
  • Renewal Cycle: N/A

Minimum of 90 hours of approved real estate education first time. Must include:

  • 30-hour Advanced Practices Course
  • 30-hour Real Estate Law Course
  • 30 hours of approved continuing education, including the 3-hour Current Issues in Washington Residential Real Estate (Core) course
  • The initial 6-hour Washington Real Estate Fair Housing course, if you have not already taken it

Although we do not have the 30-hour Advanced Practices Course and the 30-hour Real Estate Law Course, you can get your 30 hours of CE here.

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Receiving Credit for Completed Courses

Washington is an audit state, meaning neither licensees nor education schools send notice of course completions to the Department of Licensing; rather, the DOL requires that licensees are able to provide proof of course completions in the event they are audited.

NOTE: Each time you complete a course on the CBT website, you will receive a courtesy email to validate notice of your completion.

After you've completed all your courses, navigate to the Washington DOL website to renew your license: https://www.dol.wa.gov/business/realestate/brokersrenew.html

Regulation of Online CE Courses

The Department of Licensing requires that online providers incorporate timers to help ensure that it takes the same amount of time to go through courses as the number of hours for which they are certified. For this reason we have incorporated a timing mechanism to ensure that a minimum seat time is spent in each course (equal to 50 minutes per credit hour). For example, a 3-hour course will be open and active for no less than 150 minutes. Final exams are not required for electives but are required on Core and therefore are in the Core course only.

WA Approved School

Registered at the Division under our official sponsor company name CBT Alliance (provider# S1673). To verify, click here to go to the WA DOL registered provider list. Scroll down in alphabetical order to CBT Alliance.

We are a Washington approved real estate school offering flexible online WA real estate continuing education courses. Our Washington real estate license renewal courses can be taken anytime day or night.

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