California Continuing Education
Salesperson License Subsequent Renewal Course Package
Only $79
Only $79
This course package includes everything you need for your subsequent real estate license renewal.
• California Salesperson and Broker Survey (9-Hour CE)
• California Fraud, Misrepresentation, and Enforcement Risk (4-Hour CE)
• California Real Estate Disclosures, Agency, and Consumer Transparency (4-Hour CE)
• California Safety, Harassment Prevention, and Risk Reduction in Real Estate Practice (3-Hour CE)
• California Trust Funds, Financial Compliance, and Transaction Oversight (3-Hour CE)
• California Ethical Practice: Applying the REALTOR® Code of Ethics (3-Hour CE)
• California Fair Housing Foundations: History, Law, and Modern Practice (3-Hour CE)
• California Understanding Credit, Financing, and the Mortgage Process (3-Hour CE)
• California Digital Advertising, AI, and Fair Housing (2-Hour CE)
• California Brokerage Operations, Supervision, and Risk-Controlled Systems (3-Hour CE)
• California Cultural Competency and Inclusive Practices in Real Estate (2-Hour CE)
• California Government Loan Programs: FHA and VA Financing Essentials (2-Hour CE)
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All California real estate salespersons renewing their license on a subsequent renewal basis must complete this 45-hour course before submitting their license renewal application.
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Salespersons renewing their original California real estate license for subsequent renewal are required to complete 45 hours of DRE-approved continuing education, which must include:
Yes! Our courses are state-approved, and the certificates meet the California Department of Real Estate’s requirements for subsequent license renewal.
The California Department of Real Estate allows real estate agents to go through the 45-hour CA real estate continuing education courses online. It is beneficial as you can study at your own pace and convenience, even while on the go.
Several schools offer in-person and/or online courses. However, check out the real estate online courses in California offered by RealEstateU, which are the best in state.
Unlike some other schools, RealEstateU does not license courses from third parties. Additionally, you have the convenience of our online courses.
Finally, get affordably-priced courses, which are the cheapest in the industry.
Your subsequent renewals are due every four years from the date your license was issued or last renewed. You must complete the required continuing education and submit your renewal through your DRE eLicensing account to remain active.
To renew your license through California DRE eLicensing:
A late renewal occurs when you do not renew your real estate license by the expiration date. Salespersons can still renew within two years after expiration by completing the required continuing education and paying the late renewal fee, which is higher than the on-time renewal fee. After two years, the license becomes inactive and may require additional steps to reactivate.
Sponsor Name - Real Estate U Online LLC
Address - 100 SE 2nd Street, Suite 2000, Miami, FL 33131
Website - www.realestateu.com
Phone number - (866) 634-1044
Email - support@realestateu.com
Sponsor ID Number - 6444
General Information About the Course
The RealEstateU CE offering for the California real estate salesperson subsequent license renewal comprises 14 online audio courses totaling 45 hours, which meets the California Department of Real Estate license renewal requirements.
The courses included are:
California Salesperson and Broker Survey (9-Hour CE)
This course provides a broad review of key California real estate laws, regulations, and professional practices relevant to both salespersons and brokers. Students revisit essential concepts across multiple areas of real estate practice, including agency, disclosures, fair housing, contracts, financing, trust funds, consumer protection, ethics, risk management, and regulatory compliance. The course is designed to reinforce knowledge gained through previous licensing and continuing education coursework while highlighting practical issues that can arise in everyday transactions. By reviewing a broad range of California real estate requirements, the course helps licensees maintain competency and apply current standards to their professional practice.
California Fraud, Misrepresentation, and Enforcement Risk (4-Hour CE)
This course examines common forms of fraud, misrepresentation, and deceptive conduct that can arise in California real estate transactions. Students learn how inaccurate statements, omissions, fraudulent documents, undisclosed information, and improper financial practices can create legal and professional consequences. Key topics include identifying warning signs, verifying information, maintaining accurate records, communicating material facts, and understanding regulatory enforcement risks. Designed to help licensees recognize and prevent fraudulent or misleading practices, the course supports stronger transaction controls, consumer protection, and professional accountability.
California Real Estate Disclosures, Agency, and Consumer Transparency (4-Hour CE)
This course provides a focused review of California disclosure and agency requirements that promote transparency and informed decision-making in real estate transactions. Students learn how agency relationships are established and disclosed, what information must be communicated to consumers, and how timing, documentation, and proper delivery of disclosures affect compliance. Key topics include fiduciary duties, material facts, agency disclosures, conflicts of interest, and common disclosure-related risks. Designed to strengthen transaction practices and reduce liability, the course helps licensees provide consumers with timely and meaningful information throughout the real estate process.
California Safety, Harassment Prevention, and Risk Reduction in Real Estate Practice (3-Hour CE)
This course addresses personal safety, harassment prevention, and risk reduction for California real estate professionals. Students learn how to identify potentially unsafe situations, establish appropriate boundaries, respond to threatening or harassing behavior, and use practical procedures to reduce risks during showings, open houses, meetings, and other professional activities. The course also examines workplace and professional harassment concerns and the responsibilities of maintaining a respectful environment. Designed to support safer real estate practices, the course helps licensees recognize risks early and develop practical strategies for protecting themselves, clients, and colleagues.
California Trust Funds, Financial Compliance, and Transaction Oversight (3-Hour CE)
This course examines the requirements for handling trust funds and maintaining financial compliance in California real estate transactions. Students learn proper procedures for receiving, depositing, holding, accounting for, and disbursing trust funds, along with the importance of accurate records and timely reconciliations. Key topics include commingling, conversion, trust account management, transaction oversight, and common compliance risks. Designed to strengthen financial controls and reduce regulatory exposure, the course helps licensees understand their responsibilities for protecting client funds and maintaining accurate transaction records.
California Ethical Practice: Applying the REALTOR® Code of Ethics (3-Hour CE)
This course provides a practical application of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics to common situations in California real estate practice. Students examine ethical duties to clients, customers, the public, and other real estate professionals, with an emphasis on honesty, professionalism, confidentiality, cooperation, and responsible representation. Real-world scenarios and case-based examples help students evaluate ethical dilemmas and apply professional standards to everyday transactions. Designed to reinforce ethical decision-making, the course helps licensees understand how the REALTOR® Code of Ethics supports public trust and professional accountability.
California Fair Housing Foundations: History, Law, and Modern Practice (3-Hour CE)
This course provides a comprehensive foundation in the history, laws, and modern application of fair housing principles in California. Students examine the historical development of housing discrimination, major federal and state protections, protected classes, and common forms of discriminatory conduct. The course connects these legal requirements to current real estate practices, including advertising, property showings, negotiations, and consumer interactions. Designed to strengthen practical compliance, the course helps licensees recognize discriminatory risks and promote equal access to housing opportunities.
California Understanding Credit, Financing, and the Mortgage Process (3-Hour CE)
This course provides a practical overview of credit, real estate financing, and the mortgage process as they relate to California real estate transactions. Students learn how credit history, credit scores, debt, income, down payments, and other financial factors can affect a consumer's ability to obtain financing. The course also examines common loan types, the mortgage application process, disclosures, underwriting, closing, and the roles of real estate and lending professionals. Designed to strengthen financing literacy, the course helps licensees better understand the factors affecting real estate purchases and communicate financing-related information responsibly without exceeding the scope of their professional role.
California Digital Advertising, AI, and Fair Housing (2-Hour CE)
This course examines the use of digital advertising and artificial intelligence in California real estate practice, with a focus on fair housing and compliance risks. Students learn how online advertising, automated tools, algorithms, and AI-generated content can influence housing opportunities and consumer interactions. Key topics include discriminatory advertising, prohibited practices, responsible use of AI, digital content oversight, and procedures for reducing compliance risks. Designed to help licensees use emerging technology responsibly, the course provides practical guidance for maintaining accurate, ethical, and fair housing-compliant digital marketing practices.
California Brokerage Operations, Supervision, and Risk-Controlled Systems (3-Hour CE)
This course provides a practical overview of brokerage operations, supervision responsibilities, and risk-control systems in California real estate practice. Students learn how brokers and designated managers oversee licensees, establish compliant office procedures, and monitor transactions to reduce legal and financial exposure. Key topics include supervision requirements, recordkeeping, transaction oversight, trust fund controls, and procedures for identifying and addressing compliance risks. Designed to strengthen brokerage-level decision-making, the course helps licensees understand how effective supervision and risk-control systems support lawful and professional real estate operations.
California Cultural Competency and Inclusive Practices in Real Estate (2-Hour CE)
This course examines the importance of cultural competency and inclusive practices in California real estate. Students learn how cultural differences, communication styles, and personal assumptions can affect interactions with consumers and other real estate professionals. The course provides practical strategies for communicating respectfully, recognizing potential barriers, and delivering consistent service to consumers from diverse backgrounds. Designed to promote professionalism and inclusive business practices, the course helps licensees create a more respectful and accessible real estate experience while supporting compliance with fair housing principles.
California Government Loan Programs: FHA and VA Financing Essentials (2-Hour CE)
This course provides an overview of FHA and VA government-backed loan programs and their role in California real estate transactions. Students learn key program features, eligibility considerations, financing requirements, property standards, and common transaction issues that may affect buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals. The course also addresses practical considerations when working with government-backed financing and communicating financing information to consumers. Designed to strengthen financing knowledge, the course helps licensees better understand FHA and VA transactions while recognizing the limits of their role and the importance of referring consumers to qualified lending professionals when appropriate.
California High-Quality Service, Client Retention, and Business Risk Management (2Hr CE)
This course focuses on the professional practices that support high-quality client service, long-term relationships, and effective business risk management. Students learn strategies for setting expectations, communicating consistently, documenting client interactions, managing service issues, and building trust throughout the transaction. Key topics include client retention, service standards, technology, follow-up practices, and procedures for reducing business and transaction risks. Designed to improve both consumer experience and professional performance, the course helps licensees develop sustainable client-service practices while maintaining appropriate compliance and documentation.
California Protecting Vulnerable Consumers and Ensuring Integrity in Real Estate (2Hr CE)
This course examines the responsibilities of real estate professionals when working with vulnerable consumers and situations that may increase the risk of exploitation, fraud, or consumer harm. Students learn how to recognize warning signs, communicate appropriately, protect confidential information, and maintain professional boundaries while respecting consumer autonomy. Key topics include fraud prevention, undue influence, financial exploitation, ethical decision-making, and appropriate responses to potential risks. Designed to promote consumer protection and transaction integrity, the course helps licensees identify situations requiring increased care and respond in a professional and compliant manner.
CA DRE Disclaimer Statement
The courses are approved for continuing education credits by the California Department of Real Estate. However, this approval does not constitute an endorsement of the views or opinions that are expressed by the course sponsor, instructors, authors, or lecturers.
Course Fees
The courses included in the California Subsequent Renewal Package are sold as a package. The current package fee is $79.
No additional fees are required to complete the courses, take the final examinations, or receive certificates of completion.
Each course included in the 45-hour package may also be purchased individually for a fee of $29 per course by students seeking partial continuing education credit.
The package fee includes access to all eight courses required to satisfy the California Department of Real Estate subsequent license renewal education requirements.
Course Structure
The course begins with an Orientation chapter that provides an introduction to the material covered throughout the course. Each course is divided into modules, and each module contains a series of audio lectures designed to guide students through the course material.
At the end of each module, students will complete a short multiple-choice quiz consisting of 5 or 10 questions designed to assess student understanding of the material.
To pass the quiz, students must answer at least 70% of the questions correctly.
After successfully completing all modules and their associated quizzes, students will advance to the course final exam.
Attendance Policy
Students must attend 100% of the approved course hours to be eligible to receive DRE continuing education course credit.
Course Completion
Students are required to complete the course within one year from the date of registration.
Course Final Exam
The final exam for each course is administered online.
To achieve a passing score, students must correctly answer a minimum of 70% of the questions on each course exam.
There is a time limit of one minute per question.
All questions are structured in a multiple-choice format, each consisting of four answer options with a single correct response.
No true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, essay, or short-answer questions are used.
Here is a breakdown showing the number of questions for each course exam:
The exam is open-book, allowing students to reference any textbook, course notes, or glossary during the exam.
The final exam is administered through the school's proprietary learning management system (LMS). The LMS does not provide any functionality that allows students to download, save, export, or print the final examination.
Upon expiration of the authorized examination period, the LMS automatically terminates student access to the exam and records the exam session in accordance with school policies and California Department of Real Estate requirements.
Exam Attempts
Each course contains two separate final exam versions. Upon initiation of a final exam attempt, the learning management system (LMS) randomly assigns one of the available exam versions to the student. In case of a failed first exam attempt, students are allowed one retake.
If the exam is not passed on the second attempt, no course credit will be awarded.
To receive credit after re-enrollment, students must complete all course hours again and pass the final exam.
After passing the course exam by scoring at least 70%, students are issued the certificate of completion.
Forms of Identification Accepted
Students must present an approved form of identification before taking the course final exam.
Refund Policy
All real estate courses purchased directly on the RealEstateU® website are eligible for a refund within 30 days of purchase, and only if the user has NOT completed more than 50% of the course. Refunds are subject to a $20 Administrative Fee. The books are not eligible for a refund.
Subscribers looking to obtain a refund for course(s) purchased through Groupon and/or Living Social will have to contact Groupon and/or Living Social to obtain a refund in accordance with their refund policy.
Online Evaluation Statement
To evaluate a course and its instructor, you may visit the California Department of Real Estate (CalDRE) website at www.dre.ca.gov. To access the evaluation form, simply type in "RE 318A" in the search box located at the upper right corner of the home page.
Course Provider Complaint Statement
The California Department of Real Estate (DRE) website at www.dre.ca.gov has a complaint form for course providers. Enter "RE 340" in the search field in the top right corner of the homepage to access this form. There is also a "RE 340A" informational form for course provider concerns.