Continuing Education
Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE)

 Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE) refers to the Real Estate License Act's continuing education requirement (§1101.455) of 15 classroom hours (6 hours of which are the approved Legal & Ethics courses) to be completed during each two-year renewal period. Below are links to key pages dealing with MCE.  MCE is for Individual Brokers and for Salespersons who have satisfied SAE requirements

  • MCE Credit Request forms for submittal to TREC for special cases (out of state MCE, State Bar, or courses for a Professional Designation)

  • See YOUR MCE Credit Hours! - courses for which you've received credit (in Licensee Info Search)

  • MCE FAQs page for course requirements and answers to many common questions on the topic of MC

  • MCE Exemption for Certain Qualifying Brokers, from the Real Estate License Act

Sales Person Annual Education (SAE)

For Those Applying On or After January 1, 2006

A Salesperson is required to have completed a total of 18 semester (270 classroom) hours of education, at least 14 semester (210 classroom) hours of which must be in core real estate courses, by the end of their first year of licensure. On the chart below, one can see that 150 of those classroom hours in core real estate courses are to have been completed before the application for the Salesperson license is made (and may be filed along with the application). Please note that this means only 4 additional semester (60 classroom) hours in core real estate courses are required to be filed during the first year as a licensed Salesperson. These hours are known as SAE, or Salesperson Annual Education. These 60 additional classroom hours in core real estate for the SAE must be submitted and on the TREC system by the end of the first year of licensure. More Information
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