SREC Begins Licensee Audits for Required Continuing Education

The new two-year continuing education cycle, June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2026, is underway for real estate agents and brokers. In Pennsylvania, real estate licensees must complete 14 hours of continuing education (CE) every 24 months in order to renew their licenses. Requirements differ depending on when you were licensed. 

In the 2024-2026 cycle, renewing licensees’ CE must include two hours on fair housing and three hours on agency relationships. These topics do not need to be combined into one single course but must be obtained through courses specially approved by the State Real Estate Commission to cover these topics. Check with your education provider to see if a course you want to take has been approved for one of the mandatory topics. 

PAR Associate Counsels Kacy Clouser and Paige Perrucci presented two of the Pennsylvania-specific required CE courses at TriplePlay in December.  

If you were licensed after Dec. 1, 2023, or after, you must complete a specific set of two seven-hour continuing education courses for new licensees (General Module and Residential Module, or Commercial Module for commercial practitioners). Those courses are the only ones that will count for CE credit. 

The Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission has started sending notifications to licensees who were randomly selected in their audit of continuing education for the renewal cycle that ended May 31, 2024. Agents and brokers should respond to the commission’s request to provide transcripts of their continuing education. 

If you were initially licensed OR reactivated an expired/inactive license between Dec. 1, 2023, and March 3, 2024, you are not required to provide education documentation. You must, however, sign and return the audit letter with a statement verifying this information.    

If you do not have your transcripts, you must contact each school where you took a course to obtain them – schools do not report CE courses to any central location.  If you received CE credits at TriplePlay, you can find the transcripts by logging in and viewing the Course Transcripts section.