20-Hour HI 2025-2026 CE Package

$229

This product includes:

LICENSE RENEWAL PERIOD: 2 YEARS Elective Hours: 14 Mandatory Hours: 6 Total Hours: 20

Description

Package content and courses

State Requirements

This package includes the 20 hours of continuing education required to renew a broker or sales license.

Courses included in this package:

Hawaii Core A: Advertising, Agency, and Accountability - it’s your kuleana! (3 core hours)
Hawaii Core B Pre-Sale (3 core hours)*
Assistance Animals and Fair Housing Transactions (4 elective hours)
Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (4 elective hours)
Lead Awareness and Compliance (3 elective hours)
Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices (3 elective hours)

*Core B will be added to your account once it is available (July 2026). Expiration dates still apply to courses.

Package Content:

2025-2026 CORE A - Advertising, Agency, and Accountability - it’s your kuleana!

This three-hour course, Advertising, Agency, and Accountability – It’s Your Kuleana!, is Part A of the Hawaii Real Estate Commission’s required six-hour core curriculum for the 2025–2026 licensing period. In addition to reviewing recent legislation, the course addresses essential compliance topics tied to advertising, agency relationships, and professional responsibility. Licensees will explore current rules and challenges in marketing real estate, including emerging technologies such as AI and social media, and review their fiduciary duties and ethical obligations under state law.

The purpose of this course is to provide licensees with a practical understanding of how to apply Hawaii’s real estate laws and rules in day-to-day practice, helping them stay compliant, informed, and accountable.

Course highlights include:

2025 real estate-related legislation passed by the Hawaii State Legislature
Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR 16-99-11) and advertising compliance
Fiduciary duties and agency responsibilities in real estate transactions
Unlicensed assistants and legal limits of support roles
Ethical considerations and codes of conduct in Hawaii real estate practice
Risks and responsibilities when using AI and social media in advertising

Assistance Animals And Fair Housing

Must a property manager accept a tenant's emotional support animal, and under what conditions? What proof can a property manager or landlord require of a tenant who claims a need for an emotional support animal? What about homeowners associations—must accommodation be made in these communities?

This course explores the issues and options for landlords and property managers surrounding assistance animals, helping real estate professionals who represent them to ensure that individuals with disabilities have equal access to housing in compliance with the law.

Course highlights include:

The evolving fair housing law
How the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act intersect--and don't
Types of assistance animals
How to handle reasonable requests for accommodation
Case studies and legal trends
Examples and scenarios to help apply course content to real life

Note: This course does not meet NAR Fair Housing requirements.

Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions

A veteran broker once said, "No one ever failed in this business because of the paperwork." It's true: Real estate is a relationship-based business. However, to protect consumers and yourself, knowing how to manage the paperwork--whether it's cotton bond and ink or bits and bytes--is integral to your role. Maintaining detailed and organized records, even for transactions that don't close, not only satisfies regulatory requirements, it also protects your license. It proves you did what you were supposed to do when you were supposed to do it.

We can't do anything about paper cuts, but if you're ready to become more comfortable selecting and using documents to ensure on-time, accurate, and litigation-free real estate transactions, let's do this.

Course highlights include:

Typical transaction documents
Standard clauses, addenda, and contingencies
How to practice within the scope of your license (but avoid unauthorized practice of law)
How to field and manage multiple offers
Managing signatures, notarizations, and identification
Best practices in transaction management
Best practices in document retention
Keeping documents secure, both hard copy and digital
Wire fraud prevention

Lead Awareness and Compliance

Lead hazards aren’t just a concern for homeowners—they’re also a big deal for real estate professionals. If you're listing a home built before 1978 or guiding buyers through disclosures, understanding the risks of lead exposure isn’t just helpful—it’s essential. Federal laws require specific disclosures and safety measures and skipping them can lead to hefty fines and legal trouble.

This course helps you recognize where lead hazards lurk, stay on top of your legal responsibilities, and follow safe practices help protect you, your clients, and your transactions. But beyond compliance, having a strong grasp of lead safety makes you a trusted advisor. When clients see that you take their health and safety seriously, it strengthens your reputation and sets you apart as a knowledgeable, reliable real estate professional. Ultimately, keeping people safe, reducing risk, and staying compliant aren’t just obligations—they’re smart business moves supporting long-term success.

Course highlights include:

Common sources of lead in residential properties
Health risks of lead exposure
Community-based approaches to lead hazard prevention
Review of federal lead disclosure laws
Compliance with lead disclosure laws
Consequences of non-compliance with disclosure requirements
Mitigating lead hazards
Lead-safe work practices for renovations and repairs
EPA’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program
Preventing lead hazards long-term

Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices

Whether for a buyer or seller, the comparative market analysis, properly done, can mean several thousands extra dollars in their pockets, and can determine whether a deal can be struck at all. But because it’s such a well-worn tool, it’s tempting for a licensee to get complacent with the CMA, and “phone it in.”

Don’t be that licensee!

This course covers the how-tos of a professionally researched comparative market analysis.

Course Highlights:

The three-step approach to market analyses: the market, the property, the numbers
Sources for subject property data and market data
Using expired and active listings to inform pricing strategy
How to prioritize criteria when selecting comparables
How to adjust and homogenize selected comparables
How to weight selected comparables when selecting a list price range

State Requirements For Hawaii

Hawaii State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: 11/30 every even-numbered year. Please note: all CE courses and the license renewal application must be completed by this date in order to stay active. If a license has lapsed and was put into inactive status, the 2 core courses from the previous cycle must be completed prior to regaining an active status.

Hours Required by the State: 20 hours

6 hours – Core hours
14 hours – Elective hours

Note: A licensee who is issued a Hawaii real estate salesperson license during an even-numbered year shall be deemed to have completed equivalent to the continuing education hours as required by section 467-11.5, HRS, and section 16-99-90.

The CE Shop is an approved provider in Hawaii.

Provider Approval Number: 1479

The CE Shop’s Offering: 17 hours

14 hours - elective hours
3 hours - core hours

Reporting: The state requires course completions to be reported to the state. We will report your course to the state upon completion.

Expiration Date of Course: Course expiration dates vary by course. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in your account. See Terms & Conditions for more details.

Certificates: If you want or need to print the Certificate of Completion issued by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission, you will need to wait until the end of the next business day AFTER you have completed your course. Go to the HI website to print that certificate.

If you are trying to reactivate or restore your license you will need to send the Hawaii Real Estate Commission certificate to Hawaii with your paperwork. Please refer to your renewal application to determine if you need to submit your Certificate(s) of Completion with your renewal. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your Certificate of Completion will reflect this.

Final Exam: Passing a final exam is not required to receive continuing education credit in Hawaii, therefore our system is set up so that final exams can be passed with a 0% passing score.

Hawaii License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state is to log in to the licensing system online and follow the prompts to renew.

Course Duplication: A Hawaii real estate licensee can repeat the same CE course every other biennium. A licensee shall not take a continuing education course for which the licensee has already received a certificate within two consecutive biennia. For make-up credits, for example, if a licensee took a course in 2020 (2020-2022 biennium) and wants the course marked as make-up and credited to the 2018-2020 biennium, the biennium in which they first took the course is the marker to determine two consecutive biennia. That biennium marker is the 2020-2022 biennium. The licensee may then take the same course in the 2024-2026 biennia.