18-Hr. TX Designated Broker 2025 CE Plus ProPath

This required course addresses the regulatory aspects of managing, operating, and supervising a real estate brokerage firm in Texas. It provides an understanding and working knowledge of a broker's responsibilities and obligations under TREC Rule §535.2, which sets out specific requirements and best practices for brokers.

Topics include delegated supervisors and teams, ensuring agent competency and training, practical application related to required documentation, and TREC enforcement.

Course highlights include:

• Delegated supervisors
• Teams
• Coaching and training of sponsored licensees
• Brokerage structure
• Maintaining policies and procedures
• Recordkeeping compliance
• Property management and trust accounts
• Licensing requirements for business entity brokers
• Replacing designated brokers
• Recordkeeping and timely response requirements
• Geographic competency
• Subject matter expert competency
• TREC contract form usage
• Naming criteria, DBA, and team name registration
• Advertising rules and compliance
• TREC enforcement and disciplinary actions
• Artificial Intelligence and broker responsibility
• BPOs, CMAs, and Appraisals
• Broker complaint involvement

Texas real estate license holders should be conversant with the latest laws and standard practice updates that impact the real estate industry in Texas. This course comprises a comprehensive discussion about various laws, regulations, and guidelines directly affecting license holders’ practice of real estate. Scenarios and case studies are woven throughout the content to illustrate practical applications of pertinent points, as well as consequences when a license holder fails to comply. 

This four-hour course provides license holders with a strong foundation in the latest legal and ethical procedures. Without such, license holders can place themselves—and their clients—in risky circumstances. 

Course highlights include:  

• TREC rules and updates 
• TREC advisory committees 
• Key legislative updates from the 88th Texas Legislature 
• Promulgated contract form and addenda updates 
• Broker-Lawyer Committee and TREC contract forms 
• Mandatory vs. voluntary use of TREC contract forms 
• History of fair housing in Texas 
• Fair housing complaint trends and investigations 
• Bias and why it matters 
• Steering 
• Appraisal bias and additional protections 
• Fair housing advertising and marketing prohibitions 
• Fair housing best practices 
• Rental properties and disability rights 
• What Would You Do? Texas fair housing edition 
• Assistance animal requests 
• Fair housing law updates from the 88th Texas Legislature 

The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) Legal Update I and II courses are four hours of curriculum each. This online course, Legal Update II, includes four main topics: agency, TREC disclosures, representing veterans and military service members, and enforcement, case studies, and commission practices.

This four-hour course reinforces the Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct and the fiduciary duties license holders owe to consumers, reviews the Information About Brokerage Services form and Consumer Protection Notice, considers benefits of VA loans for both buyers and sellers, and emphasizes the importance of compliance with TREC rules, advertising guidelines, and best practices.

Course highlights include:

• Chapter 531 TX Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct
• Texas agency relationships
• Commission conversations
• The Information About Brokerage Services form
• The Consumer Protection Notice
• History of the VA loan
• Benefits and considerations about the VA loan for buyers and sellers
• Texas Veterans Land Board Lending Program
• TREC complaint process and common violations
• TREC’s Advertising Compliance Program
• TREC case studies and best practices
• TREC’s priorities

A veteran broker once said, "No one ever failed in this business because of the paperwork." It's true: Real estate is a relationship-based business. However, to protect consumers and yourself, knowing how to manage the paperwork--whether it's cotton bond and ink or bits and bytes--is integral to your role. Maintaining detailed and organized records, even for transactions that don't close, not only satisfies regulatory requirements, it also protects your license. It proves you did what you were supposed to do when you were supposed to do it.  

We can't do anything about paper cuts, but if you're ready to become more comfortable selecting and using documents to ensure on-time, accurate, and litigation-free real estate transactions, let's do this.

Course highlights include:

• Typical transaction documents
• Standard clauses, addenda, and contingencies
• How to practice within the scope of your license (but avoid unauthorized practice of law)
• How to field and manage multiple offers
• Managing signatures, notarizations, and identification
• Best practices in transaction management 
• Best practices in document retention
• Keeping documents secure, both hard copy and digital
• Wire fraud prevention