6 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.

• At least 2 years experience as an active Texas Real Estate Salesperson
• 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 met the Texas Real Estate Brokers license requirements, submit a copy of your certificates of completion for each course, a copy of your college transcript, and the Evaluation of Education Documents form to the Texas Real Estate Commission. Please include a $30 check or money order payable to TREC. NOTE: Do not send the original course completion certificates or college transcript. Only photocopies of original transcripts and certificates are required.

After your education has been evaluated and approved, you can submit the Application for Broker License by an Individual (at www.trec.state.tx.us) or by mail along with $300 payable to TREC. The Texas Real Estate Commission requests that you complete the application online. If applying online, approval is typically granted in 2 days. By mail, TREC will take about 7-10 days to approve.

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 6 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.