Alaska Real Estate Continuing Education Courses

WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are a real estate professional and want to build your skills to make more money.
• You need to renew your license and want to go above and beyond your CE requirements.
• You want access to all CE courses in your state at a fraction of the cost.
• You want 24/7 access to professional development tools, informational videos, industry discounts and MORE!

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

• All CE courses in your state
• Pro-Series webinar on-demand library
• How-to videos
• 100+ job aids (worksheets, scripts, and checklists)
• Product and service discounts
• Knowledgeable education specialists

Licensed in more than one state? Check out the multi-state CE Plus membership.

Acting ethically or unethically throughout your career can be the difference between having long-term loyal and grateful clients who keep bringing you business and sending you referrals or losing your license after AREC or NAR® receive too many claims against you for ethics violations.

It's incredibly important to you and other licensees to thoroughly investigate any real or potential property defects to best protect your clients on your own, as well as by suggesting to your clients that they hire experienced third-party inspectors. You and your selling clients should provide detailed written disclosures to your clients that can help them make informed decisions about whether to complete the purchase or not. These written disclosures and any subsequent amendments that are provided in a timely manner will reduce risks for your clients, you, and your employing broker.

The real estate profession is built upon a core foundation of the establishment of agency relationships with clients, the issuance of complex real estate contracts, and your requirement as licensees to closely follow the latest local, statewide, and federal laws and other regulations. Laws and contract forms are fluid and ever-changing. What was true or acceptable last year may now be considered to be unethical, void, or illegal. As a result, it’s imperative that you stay up to date with the latest contract and real estate licensing law trends, as you will learn throughout this course.

Each day, you and your fellow real estate licensees will have opportunities to find new customers and hopefully later turn them into clients who buy or lease properties through you. Your advertising strategies, the handling of your clients' financial assets and identity records, and your personal interactions with your clients can be some of the best or worst experiences of your career.

Sometimes, there's a very fine line between acting ethically and responsibly or unethically and possibly violating criminal statutes with your clients due to actions that are considered to be prohibited conduct. While "ignorance of the law" or the latest AREC rules and regulations may not be a valid defense, you should do your best to stay on top of the latest real estate practice techniques that may either help or hurt your career.

Each day, you and your fellow real estate licensees will have opportunities to find new customers and hopefully later turn them into clients who buy or lease properties through you. Your advertising strategies, the handling of your clients' financial assets and identity records, and your personal interactions with your clients can be some of the best or worst experiences of your career.

Sometimes, there's a very fine line between acting ethically and responsibly or unethically and possibly violating criminal statutes with your clients due to actions that are considered to be prohibited conduct. While "ignorance of the law" or the latest AREC rules and regulations may not be a valid defense, you should do your best to stay on top of the latest real estate practice techniques that may either help or hurt your career.

This real estate course is about various types of agency relationships such as buyer’s agency, listing agency, and leasing agency and your required fiduciary duties and obligations owed to each of your clients and others as an individual or as part of a team. You will learn about what duties are owed or not owed to others depending upon whether or not you have a confirmed designated agency relationship. Your duties and obligations with clients do not officially end once your agency relationship or purchase deals have ended, as you will learn later in this course.

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.

This course is designed to show you how to complete a quality broker price opinion report. We’ll begin by comparing BPOs to appraisals and explain why the BPO has become a favored report in recent years for lenders. This course covers the entire BPO process including how to get registered, the different types of BPOs, the requirements of each and how to complete a BPO form. Proper inspections and data gathering are critical aspects of the BPO. We’ll show you how and where to find this information. Finally, as with all appraisers and agents, there are safety considerations to keep in mind when going to a property. We’ll review precautions you can take to stay safe in the field.

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.

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

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.

This course is designed to show you how to complete a quality broker price opinion report. We’ll begin by comparing BPOs to appraisals and explain why the BPO has become a favored report in recent years for lenders. This course covers the entire BPO process including how to get registered, the different types of BPOs, the requirements of each and how to complete a BPO form. Proper inspections and data gathering are critical aspects of the BPO. We’ll show you how and where to find this information. Finally, as with all appraisers and agents, there are safety considerations to keep in mind when going to a property. We’ll review precautions you can take to stay safe in the field.

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.

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

In any real estate firm, the employing broker is usually the most important person in the business structure. It’s up to you and other brokers to do your best to properly supervise, teach, manage, and lead by example by sharing office policy manuals, training sessions, and trying to inspire your affiliate licensees and unlicensed personnel as consistently as possible. Your properly educated and informed staff can then most effectively work with their clients as you all generate income together and succeed together.

Learning Objectives
• Summarize the definition of broker supervision
• Describe the broker’s responsibilities for policies and procedures
• Explain the importance of broker policy and how to protect a client’s confidentiality
• Analyze proper trust fund or recordkeeping procedures
• Identify potential risks and consequences for not properly supervising
• Recognize how a broker can best manage one or more branch offices

Welcome! The field of real estate agency is a fiduciary relationship business that is built upon key factors such as honesty, confidentiality, loyalty, accounting, and especially ethics. Brokers and other licensees who don’t consistently treat their clients and fellow licensees and other third-party professionals with ethical and honest behaviors may have relatively short careers in the real estate profession. An unhappy customer or client can quickly share their negative experiences with you or other licensees around town or online with rather damaging reviews about you and your services.

Do your best to fully disclose any potential conflicts of interest with your clients, and don’t share private, confidential information told to you by your clients that could later financially hurt them or their personal or business reputations. You will learn various ways that clients, licensees, or state or federal agencies can take civil or criminal actions against you if you don’t act in an ethical manner with them. Finally, you will learn about other professions’ ethics practices that share many similarities with the real estate brokerage profession

Welcome! This course is about various ways how you can reduce your risk exposure and avoid any unintentional misrepresentation or fraudulent activities. Alaska, just like every other state, has local, state, and federal laws that must be adhered to by each real estate licensee and citizen. You will learn about the importance of making full disclosures in regard to agency relationships, property defects, advertising, commission payments or receipts, and working with unlicensed assistants. We send you best wishes for success with this course that will help you continue down the road towards future prosperity as a real estate broker.

Welcome! You will learn about how a successful advertising campaign can help you build a successful real estate career. Online marketing offers you both risks and opportunities for finding new clients while working from your principal business or home office. You will learn about how and why it's so important to stay up to date with the latest local, statewide, and federal laws and other regulations that can directly impact you as a broker when advertising on platforms such as social media. You will also better understand the potential to become quite busy as a broker after you learn the most effective ways to use social media and other online marketing portals.

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 

To be successful in the real estate industry, you need to study the trends to understand the consumer, so you can know how to provide better service. Today’s consumers are looking for real estate agents who understand technology and can use various technologies and applications to communicate. In this course, we will discuss the best methods of communication when working with Millennial and tech-savvy consumers. You will learn why video is one of the number one tools you need to take advantage of to attract these consumers. By the end of the course, you will have the resources you need to take advantage of current technology and apps that will help you communicate effectively with a variety of consumers.

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.

Want to take the distress out of working with foreclosures and short sales? This course was designed with that in mind. 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.

Although every effort is made to maintain the accuracy of this course, recent changes in laws and procedures may not yet be reflected in the content.