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Continuing Education

Continuing Education

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Real Estate Professionals are required to complete mandatory continuing education courses as part of the two-year licence renewal cycle.

Our courses ensure professionals obtain, maintain, and enhance the skills necessary to protect the public and ensure awareness of emerging trends and issues. Mandatory continuing education helps reinforce knowledge and addresses topical issues, trends and legislation changes. It contributes directly to raising industry standards by helping to ensure real estate professionals understand their role and the rules and regulations.

You must complete the Legal Update and Ethics courses within your two-year licensing cycle.

Anti-Money Laundering in Real Estate must be completed once during the licensing cycle of April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2022. Professionals who took the course between January 1 and March 31, 2020 can use this to renew their licence from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2022.

To review which courses you have already completed, please log in to the Iris Portal.

  • Ethics Course

    Required for All Real Estate Professionals, once per licensing cycle

    BCFSA’s Ethics course focuses on ethical decision-making in the context of the real estate profession. By being aware of ethical implications of the decisions you make both in day-to-day business and in more challenging situations where ethical concerns arise, you will better be able to fulfill the role of trusted advisor to your clients and other professionals.

  • Anti-Money Laundering in Real Estate

    Required for All Real Estate Professionals, once during the licensing cycle of April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2022 (Professionals who took the course between January 1 and March 31, 2020 may use this to renew their licence in the above mentioned period)

    BCFSA’s Anti-Money Laundering in Real Estate course is designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to help prevent illicit funds from entering our real estate markets. You’ll learn to identify warning signs and red flags for money laundering, and the steps to take when they appear.

  • Required for All Real Estate Professionals, once per licensing cycle

    In the Legal Update Course, you’ll learn about legal and regulatory updates, as well as best practice reminders. It includes recent notable discipline cases, legal developments, Errors and Omissions reports, and covers key learning points for real estate professionals to transfer into their business practices.

  • Rules Changes: Agency and Disclosure

    This self-paced online course gives you the information you need to understand and comply with the changes to the Real Estate Services Rules in effect since June 15, 2018.