5 Steps To A Texas Brokers License

With a TREC-Approved college bachelors degree, you may only need 2 more 30-hour courses to satisfy the 900-hours to meet your Texas Brokers license education requirements.

• 3600 Experience Points in 4 years of the last 5 years
• 300 Points for each closed purchase or sale of a Single Family home
• 450 points for each closed purchase or sale of an apartment complex (commercial) with 5 or more units
• other Broker point opportunities available


• 900 Total Education Hours
• 270 Hours of core real estate courses
• includes all the Core Texas Real Estate Courses taken to date
• Prelicense and SAE courses count here
• 630 Hours of Classroom hours in related courses
• A college Bachelors degree will count for 630 hours towards your Brokers license
• MCE courses count here
• one Texas Real Estate Brokerage course - 30-Hours
• Brokerage counts towards the core requirement too

Without TREC-Approved college bachelors degree, you need to have a total of 900 course hours. All previous Texas Real Estate courses will count towards your 900 hours. 27 Texas Real Estate Brokers 30-hour courses are available in the Classroom, Correspondence, and Online-Correspondence formats and discounted package pricing is available.

Once you have completed your courses at Champions, you will now need to submit your education and brokers application to TREC in the "My License" system on the Texas Real Estate Commission’s website at https://mylicense.trec.state.tx.us. Click on "Register HERE to set up a user ID and password" and follow the steps to create an account. Once an account is created you will apply for a new license. The application fee for a Real Estate Brokers license is $388.25.

If you have college credit or a college degree, you will need to scan and send in your education documents via fax copies of them to 512-936-3863.

While your application is being evaluated, we strongly recommend that you complete the Brokers state Prep course to ensure you are ready for the State Exam. This class takes the guess work and stress out of testing and you may repeat the course as many times as you want for free up to a full year!

Once you receive your approval letter and the "Candidate Information Brochure" (CIB) from TREC, you must schedule to take your exam with PSI Examination Services. Appointments can be made by calling (800) 733-9267 or visiting www.psiexams.com. The cost is $61 payable to PSI. You must pass the exam with a 75% or higher and you will know if you have passed the exam before you leave the testing center. NOTE: You must pass the state exam within 12 months of the application approval.

About the State Exam
Similar to the salesperson exam, the texas real estate brokers state exam is divided into two sections, National and State, and will consist of 110 questions with a total of 2.5 hours to complete the exam. 80 Questions will be on the National section with 1.45 hours to complete, while 40 questions will be on the State section with 45 minutes to complete. You will know if you have passed the exam before you leave the testing center.

You cannot practice real estate as a Texas Real Estate Broker until you have received a physical copy of your brokers license.