Michigan Real Estate Continuing Education Requirements for License Renewal

It’s time to renew Michigan real estate licenses again, as all Michigan real estate salesperson and broker licenses expire on October 31, 2015 (the end of the current 3-year licensing cycle), and must be renewed by that date.  There is often confusion about how many hours of Michigan real estate continuing education are required to renew a license.  This is a summary of those con ed requirements.

Within each 3-year real estate licensing cycle, a licensee must complete at least 18 clock hours of real estate continuing education that involve any subjects that are relevant to the management, operation, and practice of real estate or any other subject that contributes to the professional competence of a licensee, and at least 2 of those hours of con ed must be completed in each calendar year that involve law, rules, and court cases regarding real estate (law/legal update hours).  That means that during each licensing cycle, every licensed real estate salesperson or broker must complete at least 18 hours of con ed, including a minimum of 6 hours in the law or legal update category.  It is acceptable for all 18 hours of Michigan real estate con ed to be in the law/legal update category, as there is no maximum number of allowable law/legal update hours and all such hours count towards the 18-hour requirement.

The following is a summary of the number of hours of Michigan real estate containing education hours you will need to renew your real estate license broken down by how long you have held your real estate license:

If you:

• Renewed your Michigan real estate license in 2012 -or-
• Were issued a new Michigan real estate license between 7/1/2012 – 10/31/2013 -or-
• Were relicensed between 7/1/2012 – 10/31/2013

Then you need:

• 6 hours (2 hours each year) of CE that involves law, rules and court cases regarding real estate.
• 12 hours of other CE (those 12 hours can be additional law/legal update hours or elective hours, or a combination of both)
• For a total of 18 hours of CE prior to renewing your real estate license on or before October 31, 2015.  Remember that at least 6 hours of CE must be in the law/legal update category, although you can take more than 6 law/legal update hours since all such hours count towards the ultimate goal of completing 18 hours of Michigan real estate continuing education.

If you:

• Were issued a new Michigan real estate license between 11/1/2013 – 10/31/2014 -or-
• Were relicensed between 11/1/2013 – 10/31/2014

Then you need:

• 4 hours (2 hours each year) of continuing education that involves law, rules and court cases regarding real estate.
• 8 hours of other continuing education (those 8 hours can be additional law/legal update hours or elective hours, or a combination of both)
• For a total of 12 hours of real estate continuing education prior to renewing your license on or before October 31, 2015.  Remember that at least 4 hours of con ed must be in the law/legal update category, although you can take more than 4 law/legal update hours since all such hours count towards the ultimate goal of completing the 12 hours of Michigan real estate CE needed for license renewal.

If you:

• Were issued a new Michigan real estate license between 11/1/2014 – 7/3/2015 -or-
• Were relicensed between 11/1/2014 – 7/3/2015

Then you need:

• 2 hours of con ed that involves law, rules and court cases regarding real estate.
• 4 hours of other con ed (those 4 hours can be additional law/legal update hours or elective hours, or a combination of both)
• For a total of 6 hours of con ed prior to renewing your license on or before October 31, 2015.  Remember that at least 2 hours of continuing education must be in the law/legal update category, although you can take more than 2 law/legal update hours since all such hours count towards the ultimate goal of completing 6 hours of Michigan real estate continuing education.

Note: If you hold an associate and/or individual broker license and you have held an active salesperson license between 7/1/2012 – 10/31/2013, you are required to complete the entire 18 hours of Michigan real estate continuing education.

Note Also:  If you were relicensed and used any courses to fulfill the previous year's CE requirements, those courses cannot be used again for the 2015 renewal.

And remember that, effective January 1, 2015, Michigan real estate continuing education schools are no longer permitted to report course completions to LARA.  Pursuant to R339.2504a(2) of LARA’s Administrative Code, you must keep the Certificates of Completion for a minimum of four years.  Please make sure to hold onto your Certificate of Completion for at least four years in case you are audited by LARA.

1 Stop ConEd LLC can help you fulfill all of your Michigan real education requirements as efficiently as possible so you can renew your Michigan real estate license on time.