16-Hr. CO 2025 Broker CE Package Plus ProPath
This package includes 12 elective CE hours and the 2025 Colorado Annual Commission Update course required for active Broker license renewals.
Courses included in this package:
- Colorado 2025 Annual Commission Update (4 mandatory hours)
- Document Excellence for Smoother Transactions (3 elective hours)
- Keeping it Honest: Understanding Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud (3 elective hours)
- Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices (3 elective hours)
- Residential Property Management Essentials (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.
The Division of Real Estate is tasked by statute with keeping licensees informed of license law and legislative, statute, and rule changes related to practicing real estate in Colorado. The 2025 ACU course offers fresh information brokers need now. It covers the following topics: compliance, general practice issues, new regulations, new forms and contracts, and Commission news and resources to keep you up to date on what you need to know for your real estate practice.
Each active licensed broker must complete the ACU course by achieving a passing score of 70% or greater on the course examination developed by the commission.
As always, it is recommended that brokers take the Annual Commission Update (ACU) course between January and June. Be sure to mark your annual calendar to avoid a last-minute rush.
Proper document management provides proof that a licensee did what was required, when it was required. It serves to protect the consumer and it reduces the licensee's risk of litigation.
Get ready to become more comfortable with selecting and using transactional documents.
Course highlights include:
- Common documents used in real estate transactions
- Common contract clauses, addenda, and contingencies
- Avoiding the unauthorized practice of law
- Multiple offer management
- Document signatures, notarizations, and identification
- Transaction management methods and best practices
- Document management and retention methods and best practices
- Technology and security for document management
- Legalities of electronic communication
- Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts
Fraud has become a major issue in the industry. Lawbreakers use real estate as a vehicle to steal the life savings of unsuspecting homeowners and defraud lenders out of millions of dollars for their own gain. Federal, state, and local governments have taken steps to combat real estate fraud, but it remains a major problem—one you need to have a solid understanding of to ensure you're able to shield your clients and yourself from being defrauded or unknowingly committing fraud.
Keeping It Honest: Understanding Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud has been updated to discuss the latest fraudulent schemes and explain recent government initiatives aimed at stopping fraud and protecting consumers.
Course Highlights:
- Fraud and its impact on the real estate industry
- The newest and most prevalent types of fraudulent schemes
- Red flag behaviors that suggest someone is engaging in fraud
- How to report fraudulent or suspected fraudulent activities to the proper authorities
- Key government initiatives aimed at stopping fraud and protecting consumers
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
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
For many real estate professionals, property management is a natural extension of their expertise. Whether you’re thinking about taking on your first property or looking to grow your property management business, this is a niche business requiring specialized skills and knowledge.
Explore the role of the property manager, common tenant issues, and federal laws.
Course highlights include:
- Property management contracts
- Property types and evaluating factors
- Tips for building a successful working relationship with property owners
- Landlord and tenant obligations
- Tips for screening and retaining tenants
- Informal rental agreements and the risks involved
- How to deal with delinquent tenants
- Fair housing guidelines and exemptions
Note: This is an introduction and overview of property management.
State Requirements For Colorado
Colorado State Requirement Details for Real Estate Broker Continuing Education
Renewal Date: After initial license expires (December 31st of the year in which it was issued), license renews on a 3-year cycle beginning on January 1st of year one and expiring on December 31st of year three
Hours Required by the State: 24 hours
- 12 hours of 4-hour Annual Commission Update Course (completed once each year)
- 12 hours of elective courses
Note: An initial broker's license expires at midnight on December 31st of the year in which it was issued. During that initial licensure period, the newly licensed broker will not have to complete any continuing education. After that initial license period, the active licensee will then be on a three-year license cycle and must complete 24 hours of continuing education within that licensing cycle.
Colorado Division of Real Estate
Street Address: 1560 Broadway, Suite 925, Denver, Colorado 80202
Mailing Address: 1560 Broadway, Suite 925, Denver, Colorado 80202
Telephone: (800) 886-7675