Description
Package
content and courses
State Requirements
This complete package includes all 10 hours of continuing education required for active associate and broker license renewals.
Courses included in this package:
- South Carolina 2024-2026 Core Course: Legal Hot Tips (4 core hours)
- Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices (3 elective hours)
- Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
PLUS, this package includes the ProPath Sales Skill Builder professional development program!
Sales Communication Strategies: Unlock essential communication skills, navigate legal and ethical communication, enhance problem-solving skills, and build trust. Get ready to build a robust set of communication skills you'll use throughout your real estate career.
Overcoming Obstacles: Discover how your thinking influences problem-solving, overcome mental obstacles, and develop practical solutions for real estate challenges. Refine your skills with practice and create plans for real-world situations.
Tech Tools For Selling Real Estate: Ready to elevate your real estate game with tech magic? This course is your ultimate guide to mastering crucial industry technologies, from mastering CRMs and MLSs, to unlocking the power of social media, e-signatures, and QR codes.
Professional development courses do not qualify for CE credits. This package includes a total of nine hours of professional development content that is not included in the mandatory or elective course hours listed.
ProPath Professional Development
This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training
Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics
training, will accept this course.
Package Content:
South Carolina 2024-2026 Core Course: Legal Hot Tips
South Carolina has established laws and regulations with the intention of protecting consumers in real estate transactions. This protection results from the minimum professional standards for real estate licensees that are specified by state laws and regulations. The content selection and subject matter outline for this course were created by the South Carolina Real Estate Commission’s Education Committee. The topics chosen were selected because they’re areas of license law and practice that pose issues for real estate licensees in South Carolina.
This course aims to improve a licensee’s ability to serve clients and protect and promote the public. As a South Carolina licensee, you do your part to protect consumers by complying with license law and upholding high standards within the profession. In this course, you’ll take a walk through the law, learning to navigate as you go.
Course highlights include:
- The jurisdiction of the South Carolina Real Estate Commission
- Role of South Carolina REALTORS®
- Transaction Brokerage
- Transaction Brokerage Agreements
- Compensation and Transaction Brokerage
- Commingling, Conversion, and Trust Monies
- Earnest Money
- Due Diligence Fee
- Disputes Between Buyers and Sellers
- The Office of Investigation and Enforcement
- Complaints against licensees
- Disciplinary hearings
- Case studies to review actual issues in SC real estate practice
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
Property Inspection Issues
The inspection period is a big hurdle to jump over on the way to closing. The inspector’s job is to call out defects. The buyer agent’s job is to negotiate repairs. The seller agent’s job is to mitigate damage. It can sometimes be hard to hold a deal together.
Protecting your buyer as a buyer’s agent means understanding the importance of the home inspection contingency and its deadlines, and identifying the need for specialized inspections.
Protecting your seller as the listing agent means helping the seller understand disclosure obligations, prepare for the inspection, and respond to a buyer’s reasonable repair requests.
Course highlights:
- The importance of the inspection contingency
- The licensee’s role in the inspection process
- Licensee and seller disclosure obligations
- Red flags related to common structural, plumbing, and electrical issues
- Specialized inspection types addressing radon, asbestos, sewer lines, septic tanks, mold, lead, and wells
- Interactive activities and scenarios
State Requirements
For South Carolina
South Carolina State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education
Renewal Date: 6/30 every two years
Hours Required: 10 hours
Associate or Broker:
- 4 hours – Mandatory hours
- 6 hours – Elective hours
Per South Carolina Section 40-57-340, as a condition of active license renewal, a broker or associate shall provide proof of satisfactory completion biennially of ten hours of continuing education in courses. The ten hours must include a minimum of four hours of instruction in mandated topics.
Broker-in-Charge:
- 4 hours - Mandatory hours
- 4 hours - Core hours
- 2 hours - Elective hours
Per South Carolina Section 40-57-340, a broker-in-charge shall provide proof of satisfactory completion biennially of ten hours of continuing education in courses approved by the commission. The ten hours must include a minimum of four hours of instruction in mandated topics for a broker or associate license and four hours of continuing education must be in advanced real estate topics designed for brokers-in-charge.
The CE Shop’s Offering: 10 hours
- 4 hours – Mandatory hours
- 6 hours – Elective hours
The CE Shop is an approved provider in South Carolina, Provider Approval Number: 318
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: Immediately upon course completions, The CE Shop will provide students with an electronic copy of the course certificate of completion. Certificates will remain in your account for a minimum of five years, should you need additional copies at a later time. Please refer to your application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.
Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with at least a 75% and may be taken as many times as necessary in order to pass.
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.
