The REAA requires every person who holds a current real estate certificate or license to attend ongoing learning every year to remain current in knowledge and skill that ultimately provides consumer protection and a consistently high standard of service for the buying, selling and leasing public.
We develop verifiable and non-verifiable learning each year
We deliver our content online and partner with REINZ for classroom delivery
We assess your work and provide student help and update your training attendance records online
We report your results to the REAA on your behalf
Get Started
Register via HarcourtsOne to complete all 10 hours of Verifiable CE online
- Module 1 (Topics 1-3)
- Register for Module 1 Start Module 1
- Module 2 (Topics 4-6):
- Register for Module 2 Start Module 2
Who
The REAA requires every person who holds a current real estate certificate or license to attend ongoing learning every year to remain current in knowledge and skill that ultimately provides consumer protection and a consistently high standard of service for the buying, selling and leasing public.
What
The Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA) recognises that continuing education is necessary to:
- raise and maintain industry standards
- promote consumer confidence in the real estate industry
The REAA has therefore designed a continuing education program to improve licensees’ knowledge of the law, rules and regulations that govern the industry, to understand and uphold the concepts of ethics and professional competence in a real estate context, and to improve their skills and judgement.
20 hours of continuing education is required each year.
- 10 hours Verifiable education covering industry content and assessment specified by the REAA.
- 10 hours Non-Verifiable education covering general real estate knowledge and skills used in the field.
Note that 20 hours of continuing education the Authority requires all licensees to complete is a minimum, not a maximum.
How
Harcourts can provide all 20 hours
Verifiable Hours
- 10 Hours
- Academy Online Workshops
Or - 10 Hours
- Harcourts and REINZ Classroom Workshops
Non-verifiable Hours
- 8 Hours
- Harcourts May Conference
plus - 2 Hours
- Harcourts classroom workshops
(or other provider's online workshops e.g. REINZ)
Verifiable content for 2017
The 10 hours of verifiable continuing education for 2017 is split into the following topics:
- Topic 1
- Disclosure remains an important issue (1 hour)
- Topic 2
- Essential documentation (Part A) (2½ hours)
- Topic 3
- Essential documentation (Part B) (1½ hours)
- Topic 4
- Essential documentation (Part C) (1 hour)
- Topic 5
- Physical property inspection (Part A) (2½ hours)
- Topic 6
- Physical property inspection (Part B) (1½ hours)
The topics must be completed in the order they are presented as later topics build on knowledge covered in earlier topics.
All topics are compulsory and there are no specialist strands.
The Topic for 2017
The topic for 2017 is Knowing and communicating what you are selling.
The key learning objectives for this program are to understand the following:
- Protection against complaints to the REAA through adequate disclosure.
- The importance of obtaining consent of client vendor / lessor to disclose.
- What disclosure means and important rules and legislation relating to disclosure obligations to client and customer.
- Where information that licensees need to disclose comes from.
- The licensee’s role in terms of disclosure.
- Recognising ‘red flags’.
- When to disclose.
- Disclosure of sensitive issues.
- ‘As is / where is’ provisions do not negate disclosure obligations.
- Disclosure and the Overseas Investment Act 2005.
- The importance of appropriate communication and a demonstrated, documented process.
- What a Certificate of Title is, where it is found and what it means.
- Legal tenure.
- Interests, encumbrances and restrictions.
- What a Land Information Memorandum (LIM) report is, where it is found and what it means.
- Property files.
- Compliance with the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Building Act 2004 (district, regional and unitary plans, Building Act and Building Code, zoning).
- Resource consents.
- Building consents, code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, building permits and safe and sanitary reports.
- When compliance cannot be verified.
- Notice to fix section 95A letter.
- Disclosure in transactions involving property development.
- Dealing with different authorities.
- Information / reports from other sources, conflicting reports and how to deal with them.
- Issues with passing on information that has not been verified.
- Issues with disclaimers.
- Conducting a physical property inspection - inspection of land, inspection of buildings and other structures.
- Issues involving claims made in relation to damage of the property.
- Issues beyond the boundary.
- Interaction on site with a client vendor/lessor.
- Sample questions to vendor checklists.
- Issues involving approvals given and any signed variations.
- Issues involving stigmatised neighbouring properties.
- Dealing with third parties and information learned from them.
How to Get Started
Online workshops: Complete your Verifiable Continuing Education online
Harcourts Conference: Harcourts 2017 Conference held in May
2016 Refresher
If you are reviving a suspended licence after a period of 12 months or more, you will need to complete a refresher course (to get up to speed with what you have missed) plus the continuing education for the calendar year in which you revive your licence.
You must complete the continuing education by 31 December of the year in which you revive your licence, and you must complete the refresher training before you renew your licence for the second time.
The Academy is not offering 2016 Verifiable Continuing Education Referesher training this year.
The Support Behind You
- Contact your local Academy trainer for information, assistance and advice (Northern and Central, Wellington, South Island
- Use the Academy helpdesk during self-paced learning online
- Go to HarcourtsOne > Search Directory > (your name) > Training Attended to access your classroom training attendance - records (Please note that your verifiable online CE records are updated nightly)
- All verifiable training records will be sent to the REAA by Harcourts on your behalf