Real Estate

The Real Estate curriculum provides the prelicensing education required by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, prepares individuals to enter the profession and offers additional education to meet professional development needs.

Course work includes the practice and principles of real estate, emphasizing financial and legal applications, property development and property values.

Graduates will qualify for the North Carolina Real Estate License examination. They should be able to enter apprenticeship training and to provide real estate services to customers in a competent manner.

Program Total 13 Credit Hours (Certificate Program)*

Note: The prerequisite for enrollment in the Post-licensing courses is a current real estate license.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College is approved by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission as a Pre-licensing and Post-licensing education site for brokers.

On April 1, 2006, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission discontinued issuing salesperson licenses and accepts applications for broker licenses only. Persons applying for a broker license after that date will be required to have completed the Pre-licensing course and then pass the state license examination.

Some of the highlights of the new license law changes are as follows:

Each newly licensed broker will be classified as a "provisional broker." The provisional broker must, within three (3) years of initial licensure, complete an additional 90-hour post-licensing education program, consisting of (3) 30 hour classes in order to retain his or her broker license and terminate the "provisional" license status. Until they have completed the 90-hour post-licensing education program, these provisional brokers will have to be supervised by a broker-in-charge whenever they engage in real estate brokerage activities and cannot be designated as a broker-in-charge of a real estate office.

For complete information on all of the license law changes, please visit the North Carolina Real Estate Commission Website at http://www.ncrec.state.nc.us

*(Some real estate students take only the Pre-licensing course required to take the Licensing Examination and then the Post-licensing courses. Those who complete the Pre-licensing course, Post-licensing courses and the additional courses of Real Estate Mathematics (RLS 113) or Real Estate Practice (RLS 120) earn an ABTCC Real Estate certificate

Bobby Potts
Real Estate Programs Coordinator
(828)254-1921 Ext. 287
bpotts@abtech.edu