14-Hr. PA 2026-2028 CE Package

Every transaction you handle involves more than contracts—it involves trust. When consumer funds, property access, and confidential information are in your hands, even small missteps can lead to serious risk.

Real estate practice requires careful management of money, documents, access, and confidential details that directly affect negotiations. This course shows how routine activities like handling earnest money, overseeing showings, discussing pricing, and navigating alternative financing can create compliance risks if not handled correctly.

You’ll learn how Pennsylvania law applies to these situations and how to make sound decisions that protect your clients, your license, and the public. By strengthening your understanding of escrow procedures, property oversight, and confidentiality standards, you’ll reduce risk, build client trust, and support fair, ethical transactions.

This two-hour mandatory course meets the Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission’s requirements for the 2026–2028 Core course, Protecting Consumer Property and Confidential Information.

Course highlights include:

• Review the most common compliance risks related to handling consumer funds and property
• Gain clarity on Pennsylvania escrow requirements and how they apply in day-to-day transactions
• Explore practical approaches for managing showings and open houses while protecting consumer property
• Understand how to safeguard keys, lockboxes, and other access tools used in real estate practice
• Examine how confidentiality obligations apply in routine conversations and client interactions
• Learn how to communicate pricing and negotiate effectively without disclosing sensitive information
• Identify situations where confidentiality risks can impact your client’s position in a transaction
• Recognize how alternative financing arrangements can introduce additional compliance considerations
• Reinforce sound decision-making strategies that support compliant and ethical practice
• Apply concepts through realistic examples and activities that reflect everyday real estate scenarios

From marketing and advertising to client communication and transaction management, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming part of everyday real estate practice. With these tools come new responsibilities for licensees to ensure accuracy, fairness, and consumer protection. This course provides a clear framework for understanding how AI intersects existing laws, professional duties, and brokerage policies.

Learners will explore how AI tools can both support and endanger real estate practice. Topics include applying fair housing and advertising rules to AI-generated content, maintaining confidentiality and trust in client communications, and evaluating the risks of AI-assisted contracts and workflow automation. The course also highlights emerging fraud threats, such as deepfake impersonation and AI-generated phishing, and equips licensees with a five-step checklist to spot scams and protect clients.

By the end of the course, licensees will be able to confidently integrate AI tools into practice while upholding compliance, safeguarding consumers, and supporting brokerage-level risk management.

Attacks on real estate professionals have made headlines at an alarmingly more frequent rate in recent years. After an incident where a licensee is harmed, everyone vows to do better, and the topic of safety is pushed to the front of training schedules. Then complacency sets in.

Criminals count on complacency.

This course reviews studies and statistics of safety issues in the real estate industry, and best practices for personal safety.       

Course highlights include:

• Crime statistics and studies that challenge preconceived notions
• Risk factors and vulnerabilities that unique to real estate professionals
• Case studies to illustrate how criminals target their victims
• How to develop a personal warning system and trust your instincts when something feels “off”
• Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content

Chances are good that, if it hasn't happened yet, you will one day work on a transaction involves a property that’s part of a tax-deferred exchange. When this happens, will you be ready to guide your client through the process and ensure they meet the critical deadlines?

With an appropriately formed exchange, an investor can defer paying taxes on the profit from one investment and instead use all of the profits to fund another investment. 

This course helps licensees become more comfortable with guiding clients through a 1031 tax-deferred exchange transaction and ensuring critical deadlines are understood and met.  

Course highlights include:

• Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange definitions
• Starker’s Exchange background and application
• U.S. Internal Revenue Code requirements
• IRS Safe Harbor Guidelines
• Investor taxes advantages
• Setting up an exchange
• Selecting a Qualified Intermediary
• Licensee role in a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange
• The non-exchanger's role in a Section 1031 transaction
• Reverse exchanges
• Rare exemptions to exchange deadlines

Real estate wholesaling is not a new concept. However, the practice, regulation, and public perception of wholesaling have changed significantly in recent years. For real estate professionals navigating a market where wholesaling is becoming more popular and increasingly problematic, understanding its legal, ethical, and professional implications is more important than ever.

This three-hour course provides a straightforward examination of wholesaling: how it operates, when it crosses legal and ethical boundaries, and why it faces greater scrutiny from lawmakers and the public. You’ll examine how some investors use wholesaling as a legitimate and transparent strategy to build wealth, while others exploit it to bypass licensing requirements, mislead sellers and buyers, and disrupt housing stability, particularly in vulnerable communities.

Whether you are new to wholesaling, advising clients involved, or simply looking to avoid legal issues, this course is designed for you.

Course highlights include:

• Foundational principles of wholesaling
• Strategic uses of wholesaling
• State laws and licensing implications of wholesaling
• Red flags to indicate predatory wholesaling practices
• When wholesaling becomes illegal
• Ethical wholesaling
• Collateral damage of wholesaling
• Legal and civil penalties
• Effects of predatory wholesaling on housing market
• Real-world cases, interactive scenarios, and activities to understand wholesaling in your real estate practice