Education
Center for REALTOR® Development is a distinct online platform of activities devoted to lifelong learning, career advancement, and specialized credentials for real estate professionals. Its educational offerings provide REALTORS® with the expertise to build their businesses, better serve clients, and differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace. CRD primarily offer coursework that leads to official NAR designations and certifications from across NAR and its affiliated Institutes, Societies, and Councils.
Continuing Education for REALTORS®
Enhance your real estate expertise with our comprehensive continuing education courses through The CE Shop. Convenient and flexible, our programs allow you to learn at your own pace, ensuring you meet your professional development goals while balancing a busy schedule.
Every Realtor needs to complete 6 hours of continuing education per year which includes at least 2 hours of legal.
To check and verify your Continuing Education hours that you have completed, please go to CE Marketplace (see the link below).
REALTORS® are required to complete Fair Housing / Anti-Bias Training upon becoming a member, and every 3 years thereafter, coinciding with the Code of Ethics training timeline. This requirement will begin January 1, 2025 with a deadline of December 31, 2027. See Fair Housing Training Requirement for full information and training options.
Designations
Designations are specialized credentials for REALTORS®. Designations offer extensive benefits which are continually improved upon and expanded. For this reason, maintaining a designation requires annual dues and continued membership in NAR. Designations have specific core course and elective course requirements, both which may serve as approved education credits toward other NAR credentials.
NAR Certification Courses
Like designations, certifications are also specialized credentials for REALTORS®. The benefits they offer hold high value, but are not as extensive as those for designations. For this reason, maintaining a certification requires only an application fee and continued membership in NAR, but no annual dues. Certifications have specific course requirements which may serve as approved education credits toward other NAR credentials.
Failure to satisfy the required periodic Fair Housing training shall be considered a violation of a membership duty. Failure to meet the requirement in any three year cycle will result in suspension of membership for the first two months (January and February) of the year following the end of any three year cycle or until the requirement is met, whichever occurs sooner. On March 1 of that year, the membership of a member who is still suspended as of that date will be automatically terminated.