Utah Mandatory Residential Course (Core)
This commission-required course covers various topics that impact licensees’ real estate career, including everything from basic reviews of evergreen topics to statutory and administrative code changes they need to know about to comply with state laws and rules. In this course, licensees revisit what agency is, and the agent’s roles and responsibilities, what’s needed to represent a consumer, seller disclosures, earnest money requirements, and other specific points of the real estate purchase contract, among other topics. Additionally, they are brought up to speed on hot topics in the industry and Utah enforcement procedures.
Moving forward, equipped with valuable information and advice in this three-hour Utah Mandatory Residential Course, licensees will be better positioned to offer their clients timely advice and superior representation.
Course highlights include:
- Agency basics review
- Fiduciary duties
- Limited agency
- Earnest money basic requirements
- The importance of seller disclosures
- Conditions of purchase
- Use of addenda
- Notice and acceptance
- Legislative and Administrative Code updates and enforcement
- Enforcement and industry issues
State Requirements For Utah
Utah State Requirement Details for Real Estate Broker and Sales Agent Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Licenses are valid for a two-year period and must be renewed no sooner than 45 days prior to and no later than the expiration date. All CE must be completed by the 15th of the renewal month to ensure on-time renewal.
Hours Required by the State: 18 hours
- 3-Hour Mandatory Course in Residential, Commercial, or Property Management
- 6 hours of other core topics
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state-approved forms and contracts
- other industry used forms or contracts
- ethics
- agency, agency agreements, and fiduciary duties
- short sales or sales of bank-owned property
- environmental hazards
- property management
- prevention of real estate and mortgage fraud, including wire fraud
- federal and state real estate laws
- fair housing, diversity, identifying bias, promoting equity, and inclusion
- division administrative rules
- broker trust accounts
- water law, rights and transfer
- multiple offers
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- 9 hours of other core topics or elective topics
Utah Division of Real Estate
Street Address: Heber M. Wells Building, 2nd Floor, 160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Mailing Address: PO Box 146711, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-6711
Telephone: (801) 530-6747
Email: realestate@utah.gov