Broker & Salespersons

22.5 CE hours total

Brokers & Salespersons

• Fair Housing and Diversity: 3 CE hours
• Ethical Business Practices: 2.5 CE hours
• Agency: 1 CE hour (2 agency hours for initial license renewal)
• Legal Matters: 1 CE hour
• Electives: 15 CE hours

Renewal for a license expiring on or after September 21, 2022

• Implicit Bias: 2 CE hours
• Cultural Competency: 2 CE hours
• Fair Housing: 3 CE hours
• Ethical Business Practices: 2.5 CE hours
• Agency: 1 CE hour (2 agency hours for initial license renewal)
• Legal Matters: 1 CE hour
• Electives: 11 CE hours

Every two years by the exact day of your license anniversary date

Courses cannot be repeated more than once in a 2 year license term.

Excess credit hours may not be carried forward to the next license term.

Three months prior to your license expiration date, you are sent an email and post card reminder that it's time to renew your real estate license. Both reminders provide you with written instructions on how to renew your license online through your eAccessNY account. Online renewal applications that meet the requirements will be approved immediately and licensees will receive their License and Photo ID Card within two to three weeks.

Renew online

• WebCE courses are classified as distance education courses.
• Students will not be able to complete the course until the student’s time in the course equals the number of approved credit hours for the course. Students must read the course material and answer each set of end-of-chapter quizzes with a score of at least 60 percent.
• Final exams are not required for CE.
• If the end-of-chapter quiz is not passed on the first attempt, students have an unlimited number of retakes.

Courses must be completed within 180 days from the original date of purchase.

Every business day to the Department of State (DOS). NY will only keep reporting records in the event of future audits.

Online PDF certificates of completion are available to print immediately after the course is completed.

Non-residents are required to complete NY approved continuing education. However, a person who qualifies through reciprocity may continue to complete continuing education in the original state of licensure as long as they maintain the conditions of the reciprocal agreement. The reciprocal agreement requires that the applicant have a business and residence address in the original state. Once the licensee indicates a New York business or residence address in NY, the licensee no longer meet the conditions for reciprocity and must complete NY approved continuing education. Please visit New York's website for a list of reciprocal states they have entered a reciprocal agreement with.

The following are exempt from New York CE requirements:

• Any licensed real estate broker who is engaged full time in the real estate business and who has been licensed prior to July 1, 2008 for at least 15 consecutive years immediately preceding renewal.
• An attorney admitted to the New York State Bar who holds a real estate broker's license.

Effective July 1, 2021, all licensees are required to complete the new CE requirements, regardless of how long they’ve been licensed. The only group that is still exempt from the CE requirements are New York licensed attorneys who are also licensed as brokers.