18-Hr. TX Designated Broker 2026 CE Package B Plus ProPath

$175

This product includes:

LICENSE RENEWAL PERIOD: 2 YEARS Elective Hours: 1 Mandatory Hours: 17 Total Hours: 18

Professional Development

Description

Package content and courses

State Requirements

This full 18-hour package includes 17 mandatory hours and 1 elective hour required for the renewal of active designated broker licenses.

Courses included in this package:

TX Broker Responsibility - 2025-2026 (6 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update I 2026-2027 (4 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update II 2026-2027 (4 mandatory hours)
Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (3 mandatory hours and 1 elective hour)

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.

Package Content:

TX Broker Responsibility 2025-2026

This required course addresses the regulatory aspects of managing, operating, and supervising a real estate brokerage firm in Texas. It provides an understanding and working knowledge of a broker's responsibilities and obligations under TREC Rule §535.2, which sets out specific requirements and best practices for brokers.

Topics include delegated supervisors and teams, ensuring agent competency and training, practical application related to required documentation, and TREC enforcement.

Course highlights include:

Delegated supervisors
Teams
Coaching and training of sponsored licensees
Brokerage structure
Maintaining policies and procedures
Recordkeeping compliance
Property management and trust accounts
Licensing requirements for business entity brokers
Replacing designated brokers
Recordkeeping and timely response requirements
Geographic competency
Subject matter expert competency
TREC contract form usage
Naming criteria, DBA, and team name registration
Advertising rules and compliance
TREC enforcement and disciplinary actions
Artificial Intelligence and broker responsibility
BPOs, CMAs, and Appraisals
Broker complaint involvement

TX Legal Update I (2026-2027)

Texas real estate license holders should be conversant with the latest laws and standard practice updates that impact the real estate industry in Texas. This course comprises a comprehensive discussion about various laws, regulations, and guidelines directly affecting license holders’ practice of real estate. Scenarios and case studies are woven throughout the content to illustrate practical applications of pertinent points, as well as consequences when a license holder fails to comply.

This four-hour course provides license holders with a strong foundation in the latest legal and ethical procedures. Without such, license holders can place themselves—and their clients—in risky circumstances.

Course highlights include:

TREC rules and updates
TREC advisory committees
Key legislative updates from the 89th Texas Legislature
Broker-Lawyer Committee and TREC contract forms
Mandatory vs. voluntary use of TREC contract forms
Matching contract forms with transaction types
Water rights and types of water
Distinguish groundwater from surface water
Licensee’s role regarding water rights in real estate transactions
History of fair housing in Texas
Fair housing complaint trends and investigations
Steering
Fair housing advertising and marketing prohibitions
Fair housing best practices
Rental properties and disability rights
Assistance animal requests
Reasonable accommodations requests

TX Legal Update II (2026-2027)

The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) Legal Update I and II courses are four hours of curriculum each. This online course, Legal Update II, includes four main topics: agency, TREC disclosures, representing veterans and military service members, and enforcement, case studies, and commission practices.

This four-hour course reinforces the Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct and the fiduciary duties license holders owe to consumers, reviews the allowable duties of unlicensed assistants and transaction coordinators, presents the role, risk, and benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) in your real estate business, considers benefits of VA loans for both buyers and sellers, and emphasizes the importance of compliance with TREC rules, advertising guidelines, and best practices.

Course highlights include:

Chapter 531 TX Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct
Texas agency relationships
TREC advertising rules
Transaction coordinators, showing agents, and unlicensed assistants
Role of AI in real estate business
Risks and benefits using AI
History of the VA loan
Benefits and considerations about the VA loan for buyers and sellers
Texas Veterans Land Board Lending Program
TREC complaint process and common violations
TREC case studies and best practices

Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (fulfills the contracts requirement)

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

State Requirements For Texas

Texas State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: Every two years by the end of the month in which the license was initially issued

Hours Required: 18 hours

4 hours – Legal Update I
4 hours – Legal Update II
6 hours - Broker Responsibility Course
1 hour - Elective
3 hours - Contracts-related course

The CE Shop’s Offering: 18 hours

The CE Shop is an approved provider in Texas.

Provider Approval Number: 0505

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

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. If TREC records do not reflect completion of CE requirements at the time you submit your renewal application, you must pay a $200 CE Deferral Fee, or renew in inactive status. Payment of the CE Deferral Fee allows you to remain active for an additional 60 days from your expiration date to complete CE requirements.

Repeat Course in Back-to-Back Renewals: According to Texas Rule Chapter 535, Subchapter I, Section 535.92 (3h), credit will not be given for attendance of the same course more than once during the term of the current license or during the two?year period preceding the filing of an application for late renewal or return to active status.

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