Illinois Real Estate CE Courses Online (IL License Renewal)
Prepare for real estate license renewal with convenient courses developed by industry experts. With comprehensive Illinois real estate CE, meet full state requirements — all in one place.
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.
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Courses:
Illinois 4-Hour Core: In this course, students will learn how to protect consumers and prevent violations of the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Topics of discussion include listing agreements, buyers purchase contracts, disclosures, agency, brokerage agreements, and escrow. Students will also learn about Fair Housing and advertising regulations.
May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: This course highlights risk management for real estate professionals as it pertains to legal or monetary consequences. Learn about risk and how it affects you, explore affiliations and disclosures, and identify legal advertising issues and how to avoid them.
Fair Housing: Understand key points and historical insights on both federal and state-specific fair housing laws. Course highlights include housing law developments throughout history, advertising policies, and how to stay clear of discriminatory practices.
Learn how you want – listen to all of your course materials with our narrating audio learning option. With this new learning option, learn how, when, and where you want to stay compliant in Illinois.
Courses:
IL Real Estate Broker Management: This course highlights changes to the Illinois Real Estate License Act and the Administrative Rules of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Learn about supervision and oversight of new broker licensees, as well as office policy and procedures.
Illinois 4-Hour Core: In this course, students will learn how to protect consumers and prevent violations of the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Topics of discussion include listing agreements, buyers purchase contracts, disclosures, agency, brokerage agreements, and escrow. Students will also learn about Fair Housing and advertising regulations.
May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: This course highlights risk management for real estate professionals as it pertains to legal or monetary consequences. Learn about risk and how it affects you, explore affiliations and disclosures, and identify legal advertising issues and how to avoid them.
Fair Housing: Understand key points and historical insights on both federal and state-specific fair housing laws. Course highlights include housing law developments throughout history, advertising policies, and how to stay clear of discriminatory practices.
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How to renew a Real Estate License in Illinois
Real estate agents need to renew their licenses at regular intervals as a requirement by the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation-Division of Real Estate. The process of renewing your real estate license in Illinois is fairly simple and includes the following steps:
01 Complete your Illinois Real Estate CE Course
The first step towards your Illinois real estate license renewal is completing the required state-approved Illinois Continuing Education course.
02 Complete your Illinois real estate license renewal application
Once you have completed your continuing education course and course exam, you need to go to the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation-Division of Real Estate website and update your course completion numbers.
03 Pay the Illinois real estate license renewal fees
Lastly, you need to pay the renewal fees to complete the renewal process.
The course addresses changes to the Illinois Real Estate License Act and the Administrative Rules of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, supervision and oversight of new broker licensees, and office policy and procedures. The topics presented satisfy the core curriculum requirements set forth by the state of Illinois.
The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect consumers, enhance the professionalism of the real estate brokerage industry, and prevent violations of the Real Estate License Act of 2000. We will address several important topics that licensees will likely face on a day-to-day basis. These topic points include listing agreements, buyers purchase contracts, disclosures, agency, brokerage agreements, and escrow. Students will also learn about Fair Housing and advertising regulations. We’ll discuss how internet advertising, print media, and social media can help expand your real estate business either as an individual agent or as part of a team. Instructions will also cover ways to minimize risk related to license and advertising violations. Throughout the course we will be referencing text from the Illinois Real Estate License Act of 2000.
Cybersecurity: Protecting the Real Estate Transaction
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Do you feel prepared for a cyber attack? This course will help you to identify scams and how cybercriminals gain access to organizations’ network systems with the intention of stealing data or holding files hostage. You will learn why real estate organizations are targeted, preventative measures to protect your data, and guidelines for establishing a cybersecurity policy manual.
Course Highlights
• Learn about types of cybersecurity attacks • Understand why cybersecurity is necessary • Explore why real estate organizations are targeted for cyber crimes • Gain knowledge on how to prevent cyber attacks • Learn how to establish a cybersecurity policy
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
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.
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.
Nearly 40% of home buyers consider energy efficient features to be “very important.” This course will help you grow your knowledge of the ins and outs of eco-friendly living.
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
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.
This course will cover a brief history of the mortgage industry and introduce the players. We will discuss financing, security instruments, and legal clauses commonly included in these instruments. We’ll look at various loan types, including government-backed mortgage programs and discuss mortgage fraud and predatory lending. Finally, we will examine the loan process, qualifying standards for borrowers, and mortgage laws.
Tom Lundstedt is known as the funniest investment and tax guy in America. His programs have entertained and enlightened more than 3,000 audiences from sea to shining sea. He’s a former Major League baseball player whose striking combination of humor and real-world examples makes his subjects spring to life.
ABRIDGED DESCRIPTION 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
Tom Lundstedt is known as the funniest investment and tax guy in America. His programs have entertained and enlightened more than 3,000 audiences from sea to shining sea. He’s a former Major League baseball player whose striking combination of humor and real-world examples makes his subjects spring to life.
ABRIDGED DESCRIPTION Master the skills you need to work successfully with real estate investors.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
Gain confidence in evaluating real estate investment properties
Examine cash flow, NOI, depreciation, rate of return, cap rate, cash on cash and more
Learn how to leverage five different methods to determine a rental property’s value
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.
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.
Property Condition Discovery and Disclosure Compliance
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This course covers information to aid real estate licensees in better understanding how to comply with the laws the govern real estate property condition disclosure. This course covers the obligations of sellers, buyers, and agents in the discovery and disclosure of residential property conditions. Focus is given to requirements for making environmental hazard disclosures and handling stigmatized property disclosure exceptions.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
• Recall material facts and defects that require seller disclosure is most states. • Describe the obligations of sellers and seller agents in providing property condition disclosures to potential buyers. • Describe the obligations of buyer agents in ensuring clients understand the seller’s disclosure process and important steps in buyer due diligence. • Learn about the health risks and disclosure requirements for potential internal and external environmental hazards. • Review how to handle inquires and disclosure exceptions related to stigmatized property, HIV/AIDs exposure, and sex offenders. • Read case information to learn how courts have ruled in different states and under different circumstance in handling complaints related to the property disclosure obligations and liabilities of individuals involved in a real estate sales transaction.
Real estate licensees should have some familiarity with the laws that prohibit discrimination against persons who have a disability and their animals. This course covers how to comply with the anti-discriminatory provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act that protect persons with disabilities and their animals.
Real estate professionals need to stay aware of demographic shifts that impact consumers’ home buying and selling. This course focuses on the demographics and home buying and selling trends for six generation groups: Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generations X, Y, Z, and A. Based on four important generation home buying trends, specific focus is given to environmentally-friendly home features, multi-generational home solutions, planned unit developments, and first-time home buyer preparedness.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
Learn the birth dates that define each generation group and gain an understanding of the major life experiences that shaped the attitudes and behaviors of group members.
Discover current home buying and selling trends for each generation group.
Review detailed information about features that make a home energy-efficient and resources for helping your buyer-clients assess if a home satisfies their environmentally-friendly needs.
Learn why and how accessory dwelling units may be a solution for clients seeking multi-generational home solutions.
Be better prepared to guide first-time Gen Xer and Millennial home buyers through the complex home purchase process with a focus on preparedness for mortgage loan approval.
The purpose of this course is to provide current information about sexual harassment in the workplace and to ensure that employees comply with the educational requirements of Illinois Public Act 100–0762. This includes understanding how to prevent and deal with sexual harassment and how to report such harassment. Course Objectives Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: •Define sexual harassment according to Illinois Public Act 100–0762. •Describe mandates of Illinois Public Act 100–0762. •Discuss federal mandates related to sexual harassment in the workplace. •Explain how to report sexual harassment in the workplace. •Discuss the impact of sexual harassment in the workplace. •Identify interventions to help persons who have been sexually harassed. •Discuss ways to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
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.
Workforce Housing: Solutions for Homes and Financing
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The purpose of this course is to provide real estate licensees a foundational understanding of workforce housing. This course first defines workforce housing and its purpose. Licensees learn about creative workforce housing projects initiated and funded by employers and other stakeholders. Focus is given to financing options available to low- and middle-income homebuyers.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
Gain an understanding of how workforce housing is defined and how it can improve current worker shortage and affordable housing challenges.
Learn about creative and diverse methods that have been used by employers to provide affordable housing options that attract and retain workers.
Discover why and how real estate developers, nonprofits, and other key stakeholders have worked together to offer affordable housing solutions in areas where home prices are out of reach for middle-income workers.
Gain an understanding of different types of mortgage loan programs that are structured to provide affordable home financing options to homebuyers who have low or moderate income, including how buyers qualify for a loan and key loan features and benefits.
Discover why professionals choose Colibri Real Estate as their preferred partner for CE in Illinois.
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Illinois
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Illinois
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FAQs
Why is real estate continuing education needed in Illinois?
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 Illinois.
How many hours of continuing education are required for Illinois real estate license?
Below are the credit hour requirements to renew your real estate license in Illinois: – Broker Post-Licensing: 45 hours – Broker: 12 hours – Managing Broker: 24 hours
How do I renew my real estate license in Illinois?
Your Illinois Real Estate license must be renewed online through the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation-Division of Real Estate after completing your Illinois state-approved CE courses.
How much does it cost to renew your real estate license in Illinois?
Cost for Illinois Broker post-licensing: – Course Fee: $279
License renewal cost for Illinois Broker license renewal: – Course Fee: $109 – License Renewal Fee: – Before 4/30/2024 – $200.00 – After 4/30/2024 – $275.00 – Late Fee: $75
How often do you have to renew your real estate license in Illinois?
Here’s how often you need to renew your real estate license in Illinois: – Broker Post-Licensing: Variable; click here for requirements – Broker: Every 24 months – Managing Broker: Every 24 months
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