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12-hr. LA 2026 Sales Licensee CE Package for REALTORS

$125
This product includes:
LICENSE RENEWAL PERIOD: 1 YEARS Elective Hours: 8 Mandatory: 4 Total Hours: 12
Description
Package content and courses
State Requirements

This complete continuing education package includes all 12 hours required to renew an active real estate sales license in Louisiana.

Courses included in this package:

  • 2026 LREC Mandatory – Transparency, Technology, and Trust (4 mandatory hours)
  • Upholding Fair Housing Laws (2 elective hours)*
  • Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 elective hours)*
  • AI in Real Estate: Usage, Oversight, and Scam Awareness (3 elective hours)

Note: In addition to the 2026 LREC Mandatory – Transparency, Technology, and Trust course, brokers and associate brokers must also complete the 2026 LREC BROKER Mandatory - Broker Leadership & Compliance course as part of their annual continuing education requirement. This package does NOT include that course.

*These courses were designed to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics and Fair Housing training requirements. Please confirm that your local association, who administers this training, will accept these courses.

NAR Ethics Requirement

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

Package Content:
2026 LREC Mandatory – Transparency, Technology, and Trust

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

Upholding Fair Housing Laws

Fair housing law stands as a cornerstone of civil rights legislation, aiming to eliminate discrimination in housing markets and ensure equal opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, disability, or any other protected characteristic. By understanding the importance of fair housing law, licensees recognize its pivotal role in fostering inclusive communities and combating systemic inequalities. This course explores the historical context, key provisions, and practical applications of fair housing law, equipping licensees with the knowledge and tools necessary to uphold these principles in their professional endeavors.

Real estate licensees play a vital role in upholding fair housing principles and safeguarding the rights of all individuals in the housing market. As gatekeepers of property transactions, licensees must stay abreast of fair housing laws and practices to ensure ethical and nondiscriminatory conduct. Beyond legal compliance, embracing fair housing principles fosters trust, promotes diversity, and enhances business success in an increasingly diverse marketplace. This course will empower licensees to navigate complex fair housing issues with confidence, fostering a culture of inclusivity and advancing the vision of fair and equitable housing for all.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas

While conducting real estate business, have you encountered a situation in which you weren’t sure what the proper course of action was? What the right thing to do might be? Or maybe you’ve heard your colleagues’ stories and got that uncomfortable, itchy feeling that an action they took wasn’t quite on the up and up.

Let’s look at an uncomfortable truth: real estate agents have a small tarnished image problem. With every transaction being unique, real estate licensees often face ethical gray areas. Some real estate professionals simply don’t understand how to handle complex issues in the most ethical manner, and others bend the rules if they think it’ll keep a transaction on track or a commission in their bank account and not a competitor’s.

Aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle, this three-hour course helps licensees deepen their knowledge—and practice—of ethical rules of conduct according to the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice. The code isn’t applicable to REALTORS® only, who are duty-bound to uphold the code as a privilege of membership. The code’s guidance serves anyone possessing a real estate license, and licensees who heed the code’s various articles and standards of practice can do the greatest good of all: protecting consumers while also bolstering the reputation of all the industry’s professionals.

Course highlights include:

  • Laws vs. morals vs. ethics
  • Top articles of the code involved in the most complaints (plus a few more)
  • A candid look at the industry’s image problem
  • Common ethical dilemmas and using the code to solve them
  • Foundation and enforcement of the code
  • Competency in real estate practice as a matter of ethics
  • Steering clear of procuring cause disputes
  • Ethics concerns with technology and social media
  • Tips and best practices to keep your reputation polished to a high shine

*This course was designed by us to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

AI in Real Estate: Usage, Oversight, and Scam Awareness

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.

State Requirements For Louisiana

Renewal Date: Every year on 12/31

Hours Required by the State: 12 hours

The CE Shop’s Offering: 12 hours

Provider Approval Number: 9097

Reporting: The state requires course completions to be reported to the state. We will report your course to the state upon completion.

Expiration Date of Course: Course expiration dates vary by course. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in your account. See Terms & Conditions for more details.

Certificates: Immediately upon course completions, The CE Shop will provide students with an electronic copy of the course certificate of completion. Certificates will remain in your account for a minimum of five years, should you need additional copies at a later time. Please refer to your application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.

Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with at least a 75% and may be taken as many times as necessary in order to pass.

License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state is to log in to the licensing system online and follow the prompts to renew your license. 

The renewal period is as follows:

  • Timely Renewal Period: August 1 – September 30
  • First Delinquent Renewal Period: October 1 – November 15 - fees assessed 
  • Second Delinquent Renewal Period: November 16 – December 31 - fees assessed 

Course Duplication: Credit will not be awarded for completing duplicate courses within the same license period.

MANDATORY COURSE TOPIC(S)

2026 Mandatory - Transparency, Technology, and Trust 

Mandatory course topics must be completed through an approved LREC-certified real estate vendor on or before December 31 as part of the 12-hour continuing education requirement.

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Telephone: 225.925.1923 or 800.821.4529

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