12-hr. LA 2026 Broker and Associate Broker Licensee CE Package

Today’s real estate practice comes with higher expectations, closer scrutiny, and less room for error. You are working in the field and navigating real changes, including updated forms, buyer brokerage agreements, compensation transparency, new technology, and increased fraud risk. These issues affect how you work with clients, how you stay compliant, and how you protect your license and business. 

The course focuses on how these requirements show up in everyday transactions—not as isolated rules, but as connected decisions licensees make every day. You’ll learn how to explain current requirements clearly to clients, recognize risk early, and use technology responsibly while meeting regulatory expectations. By the end, you’ll have a practical approach to compliance that supports confident decision-making and reinforces your role as a trusted professional in today’s more regulated marketplace. So, let’s jump in and make sure you’re ready for what’s next in Louisiana real estate!

This four-hour course fulfills the four hours of mandatory continuing education for Louisiana real estate licensees for 2026.

Course highlights include:

• Changes to the LA Residential Agreement to Buy or Sell
• Updated Residential Property Disclosure
• Using updated forms and minimizing risk
• Explaining required Buyer Brokerage Clauses
• Unpacking Buyer Agreements and Buyer Broker compensation
• Avoiding steering
• AI’s role in real estate practice
• AI defined
• Technology tools in real estate
  • Recognizing fraud
  • Due diligence and risk aversion
  • Types of fraud
  • Case studies, interactions, and assessments to drive home key concepts

While this course may be mandatory, it's also beneficial for brokers to review a range of topics concerning real estate activities. While licensees are the lifeblood of any brokerage, they also pose the greatest risk to the brokerage's licensure. Inexperienced licensees may lack education and training in key areas, causing them to make innocent mistakes, unintentionally provide misinformation, or fail to make appropriate disclosures. Experienced licensees can sometimes act beyond the scope of their license or expertise. In trying to be helpful, they can put the sponsoring broker's license at risk. And unfortunately, some licensees intentionally misrepresent information and commit acts of fraud.

Appropriate supervision is a Louisiana broker's best risk management strategy, and it's also a requirement of the person acting in a supervisory role. This course will cover the broker's role in supervising licensees and employees, highlighting areas brokers may want to pay close attention to.

All active brokers and associate brokers must complete the Louisiana Real Estate Commission (LREC) 2026 Broker Mandatory Course as part of their annual continuing education requirement.

Course highlights include:

• Licensee supervision and training
• Recordkeeping requirements
  • Employment law in Louisiana
  • Employee vs. contractor
  • Office policy requirements
  • Louisiana real estate teams and groups
  • Advertising, social media, and fair housing requirements
• LREC Property management rules and regulations
• Louisiana Landlord and Tenant Act
• Escrow and Trust accounts
• License renewal, reinstatement, and maintenance
• 36 ways to lose your license
• Penalties, administrative actions, investigations, and hearings

Real estate wholesaling is not a new concept, but its practice, regulation, and public perception 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 four-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:

• Differences between wholesaling and traditional real estate transactions
• Pros and cons of wholesaling
• State laws and licensing implications for wholesaling
• Identifying red flags with wholesaling
• Ethical pitfalls in wholesaling
• Recognizing predatory patterns
• When wholesaling becomes illegal
• Collateral damage, legal fallout, and civil penalties
• Wholesaling's impact on housing markets and housing inequity
• Wholesaling and technology
• Interactive activities, case studies, and scenarios to frame the content in everyday context