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Eligibility Requirements:

1.  You must be a citizen of the United States or a lawfully admitted alien, eighteen (18) years of age or older and a legal resident of Texas. If you are a resident of another state, you must be licensed by that state as a real estate broker.

2.  You must satisfy 1 of the 2 real estate experience conditions:  

    a.  You must have at least 2 years experience as an active licensed Texas real estate salesperson within 8 years directly prior to your application for a broker's license.

or

    b.  If you are licensed as a broker in another state, you must have least 2 years experience as an active licensed real estate salesperson within 3 years directly prior to your application for a broker's license.

Steps for Getting Your Broker's License:

Step #1:  Make sure you meet and/or complete all of the eligibility requirements listed above.

 

Step #2:  Take the Real Estate Courses offered at Hall Real Estate Institute to fulfill the education requirements.

TEXAS REAL ESTATE LICENSE ACT: Requires applicants for the broker's license to complete 60 semester (900 classroom) hours of real estate or related courses. Of the 60 semester (900 classroom) hours, 18 semester (270 classroom) hours must be in CORE real estate. These CORE courses must include:

Fair Housing and Anti-discrimination are included in our Principles 101 & 102 courses. 

In addition to the 18 semester (270 classroom) hours, you must take an additional 42 semester (630 classroom) hours in courses acceptable to the Commission.

We offer these additional 30 hour courses towards the education requirements:

Step #3:  Send a copy of your transcript and/or copies of your certificates, with an evaluation form and $30 to the Texas Real Estate Commission.

These TREC forms require Acrobat Reader to view and print the PDF format forms.  If you want a free download of it, click one of these links. 

  

REQUEST FOR EVALUATION OF EDUCATION DOCUMENTS.

Send to:

Texas Real Estate Commission
Education Division
P.O. Box 12188
Austin, Texas 78711-2188.

This must be done before making an application for licensing.  Students may enroll in Hall Real Estate courses before an assessment is made.

Step #4:  After you have completed all of your real estate education requirements, send the application for broker to the Texas Real Estate Commission.

Broker License Application

Once TREC approves your application, you will receive a Candidate Information Brochure (CIB).  This is required to take the examination.

Step #5: Take and pass the examination for the broker's license.  

The examination has 2 parts:

1)  National Portion (105 minutes), and

2)  State Portion (45 minutes)

These are the closest testing locations (others in Texas are available):

Austin:  LaCosta Corporate Park, 6448 Hwy 290 East, Suite F111

Waco:  345 Owen Lane, Suite 124

  

     CONGRATULATIONS!

  YOU HAVE EARNED YOUR

      BROKER'S LICENSE!  

Send mail to Luz Vazquez, School Administrator at info@hallrealestateinstitute.com with questions or comments about this web site.  Copyright © 2004-2008 Hall Real Estate Institute
Last modified: October 26, 2009