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The Broker Responsibility Working Group (BRWG) met July 13 and acted on two proposals related to broker oversight and sales agents鈥� response times.

Proposed Rule

BRWG proposed a new rule, 535.157, that requires a broker or sales agent to respond to their principal, a broker or sales agent representing another party to a real estate transaction, or an unrepresented party to a real estate transaction within two calendar days.

The Education Standards Advisory Committee (ESAC) met July 7 and discussed pre-licensing course credit and the qualifying course outline for real estate brokerage and property management.

Pre-Licensing Course Credit

The committee discussed whether to further consider recommending a time limit for accepting and awarding pre-licensing course credit. Any update would require a rule change. Staff will gather data on this issue and present to the committee for discussion at the next committee meeting in October.

It is now easier to find whether a license holder has a disciplinary history with the Texas Real Estate Commission. The newly launched Disciplinary Actions button at the top of each license holder鈥檚 page will take you to their specific Disciplinary Actions page if a disciplinary history exists.

Previously only indirect methods鈥攕uch as searching the Disciplinary Actions section of trec.texas.gov鈥攚ere available. These remain available along with the new button.

In recent months, I鈥檝e had the privilege of presenting alongside Texas Real Estate Commission Executive Director Chelsea Buchholtz to license holders around Texas, many who are REALTORS庐.

As some of you may know, I served as chairman of the Texas Association of REALTORS庐 in 2015 and have chaired more than a dozen other committees and task forces of the organization on local, state, and national levels.

The 87th Texas Legislature requiring the Texas Real Estate Commission to collect management certificates and amended management certificates from property owners鈥� associations鈥攁lso known as homeowners associations (HOAs)鈥攁nd make the certificates publicly available online.

"How do we raise the bar of professionalism?"

"We need more broker responsibility."

"I work with people on the other side of a contract who don鈥檛 know what they are doing. They don鈥檛 even know the name of their broker!"聽

The Texas Real Estate Inspector Committee (TREIC) met April 18 and talked about hot topic issues, including how inspectors must handle single-item inspections, clarifications to 535.222, Inspection Reports, and expired licenses. Read on for more takeaways.

It鈥檚 been more than two years since the pandemic changed the real estate landscape and how you do business, and your license renewal may not be on your mind. But now is the time to ensure your license hasn鈥檛 been expired for more than two years, which requires you to take extra steps to renew.

The Texas Real Estate Commission met May 2, 2022. In addition to hearing updates from 星空体育app下载 staff, the Commission contemplated a proposed new flood disclosure form for leases, non-substantive proposed changes from the quadrennial rule review, and adopted a rule change for easement or right-of-way (ERW) agents. The Commission also heard a presentation from , executive director of the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University.

星空体育app下载 is pleased to announce an update to the Posting System that allows all providers of real estate Qualifying Education (QE) courses to post course credit directly into the agency鈥檚 system of record. The student must have a 星空体育app下载 real estate sales agent or broker license number to award qualifying credit.