EDUCATION
Don’t Let Hidden Biases Hamper Your Business Relationships
Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing is an NAR certificate course that helps real estate professionals interrupt stereotypical thinking so they can avoid fair housing pitfalls and provide equal professional service to every customer or client. Participants will learn about the mind science of identity; study how implicit bias can result in fair housing violations and engage in interactive exercises to enhance communication skills and business relationships with clients of all backgrounds.
This three-hour classroom course can be taken online or in person and may qualify for CE credit in your state. Register for the course today. Learn more and register here
Effective Dates for New CE Changes
On July 20, the Department of State published proposed rule-making updates to implement recent changes in education standards for the real estate salesperson qualifying course, which were signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in December 2021.
Under the new law, individuals taking the real estate salesperson qualifying course will be required to take two (2) additional hours of pre-licensing education in fair housing; and individuals taking the real estate brokers qualifying course will be required to take an additional 32 hours of pre-licensing education of which 10 hours are devoted to fair housing. Instructors will also be required to submit electronically to the DOS an affirmation of compliance pertaining to the instruction of the established curriculum. The anticipated effective date of these new regulations is December 21, 2022.
DOS will be holding one public hearing for comment on these regulations on September 21 at 11:00 a.m. at 123 William Street, Second Floor, New York. Learn more.
Additionally, licensees are required to take two (2) hours of implicit bias and two (2) hours of cultural competency education within the existing 22.5 hours of required continued education, which will go into effect September 21, 2022.