Illinois 12-Hour Broker Management CE Course (BMCE)
This course provides advanced learning in an interactive format for all managing broker licensees. In addition to Illinois Real Estate License Act updates, the course helps managing brokers create, implement, and apply office policies required to operate and manage brokerages that are successful and compliant with real estate law and regulations.
This 12-hour course meets the broker management core course for brokers in Illinois.
Course highlights include:
- New definitions in the Illinois Real Estate License Act
- Role, title, and usage of the term “designated managing broker”
- Direct supervision requirements of new licensees
- Escrow supervision requirements
- Brokerage transaction supervision requirements
- Oversight of electronic negotiation
- Agency disclosure laws and the managing broker’s role in ensuring disclosure compliance
- Online advertising regulations, including the one-click rule
- Illinois sponsoring broker supervisory responsibilities
- Training requirements for sponsoring brokers
- Team advertising laws
- Dual and designated agency; non-agency relationships
- Changes to age and education requirements for Illinois licensees
- Required interactions with the Division of Real Estate
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
State Requirements For Illinois
Illinois State Requirement Details for Real Estate Managing Broker Continuing Education
Renewal Date: April 30th of odd-numbered years
Hours Required by the State: 24 hours
- 12-hour Broker Management CE course
- 6-hour core course
- 6 hours of elective courses including
- 1-hour course in Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Note: A managing broker renewing their license for the first time may use the 45-hour managing broker pre-license brokerage administration and management course to satisfy the 12-hour broker management CE requirement. If the current term of the managing broker license ends within the 90 days after the initial managing broker license is issued, a licensee is not required to complete CE for that managing broker license term but shall complete all CE requirements before the next managing broker renewal deadline.
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Real Estate
Street Address: 320 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, Illinois 62786
Mailing Address: 320 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, Illinois 62786
Telephone: (800) 560-6420
Email: fpr.realestate@illinois.gov