The Broker Licensing Course is 75 hours of required seat time, delivered in 20 numbered sessions. You can start any day with any session and take them in whatever order suits you, as long as you don’t repeat a session.
New York requires 152 hours of qualifying education for a broker license, and this course is 75 of them. The salesperson course you completed earlier accounts for the rest, and we include the two-hour fair housing and implicit bias course that finishes the requirement.
Once all 20 sessions are done you can sit the school exam and the state exam, in either order. The school exam requires a score of 70% and must be taken in person within New York State. REEDU includes a proctored exam sitting in New York City, and can help you find an approved location elsewhere in the state.
Which course you need depends on when you were licensed, not on how much you want to spend. New York requires 152 hours of qualifying education for a broker license, and the hours you already have determine what is left to do.
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Step 1 — Confirm you qualify:
20 or older, valid photo ID, US citizen or permanent resident, no disqualifying felony conviction, and two years as a licensed salesperson or three in general real estate.
Step 2 — Count your points before you spend anything:
3,500 on the salesperson route, 5,250 on the general route.
Step 3 — Complete the 75-hour broker qualifying course:
Plus any remedial hours your license history requires.
Step 4 — Pass the REEDU proctored school exam:
70% or better, in person in New York State.
Step 5 — Pass the Department of State broker examination:
Reserve through your eAccessNY account; the fee is $15 and exams are held monthly.
Step 6 — Apply to the Department of State:
With your education and experience documentation. The application fee is $185 and the license runs two years.
Coursework is only half of the application. New York also requires either two years as a licensed salesperson or three years in the general real estate business, and in both cases you must document your experience as points.
Points are awarded per transaction, weighted by type — a closed house sale is worth 250, a residential rental 25. You need 3,500 points on the salesperson route, or 5,250 on the general experience route. See the qualifying routes and how much transactions are actually worth below.
Two years as a licensed salesperson
Points Required
Points Required
Points Required
A residential sale is worth 250 points, so fourteen of them clears the salesperson route on their own. A rental agent gets there differently; at 25 points a rental it would take 140, which is why most rental-side agents reach the threshhold on a mix of rentals, renewals, exclusives and the occasional sale — rather than volume in one category.
| House, condo, co-op, 2–8 unit or farm | 250 |
| Co-op sale rejected by the board | 100 |
| Binder effected | 25 |
| Exclusive listing | 10 |
| Open listing | 1 |
| Rental or sublease effected | 25 |
| Exclusive rental listing | 5 |
| Property management lease renewal | 2 |
| Rent collection, per tenant per year | 1 |
| Sale — office, 9+ unit, retail, hotel, warehouse, parking | 400 |
| Single-tenant commercial condo | 250 |
| New lease, by rental amount | 150–400 |
| Lease renewal, by rental amount | 75–200 |
| Financing, by loan size | 200–400 |
| Exclusive listing | 10 |
| Vacant land, over 100 acres | 150 |
| Vacant land, under 100 acres | 50 |
| Residential financing, $1–$500,000 | 50 |
152 hours of approved qualifying education in total. For most applicants that is the 75-hour salesperson course already completed, the 75-hour broker course, and two hours of fair housing and implicit bias training.
If the salesperson course you took was the 45-hour version, you will also need the 30-hour salesperson remedial; if you already completed the old 45-hour broker course, the 32-hour broker remedial covers the gap instead.
3,500 points if you are qualifying on two years of licensed salesperson experience, or 5,250 points if you are qualifying on three years of general real estate experience.
A closed residential sale is worth 250 points, so the salesperson threshold works out to roughly fourteen home sales — though most agents reach it through a mix of sales, rentals, renewals and listings.
Yes. A broker licence is issued by the New York Department of State. “Realtor” is a membership in the National Association of Realtors and is not required to hold any licence in New York. They are separate things, and you can be either without the other.
None, as far as qualifying goes. An associate broker is a licensed broker — same 152 hours, same experience points, same state examination. The difference is a choice made afterwards: an associate broker elects to work under the name and supervision of another broker rather than operating independently. Many people qualify as brokers and stay associate brokers for years.
The state charges $15 for the written examination and $185 for the license application, which covers two years. Course costs are separate — REEDU’s broker course is $600, or $250 if you only need the 32-hour remedial.
No. That requirement applies to salespeople. As a broker you can operate independently, though many newly licensed brokers choose to work as associate brokers under an established firm first.
Course access runs four months from registration, and extensions are available. Separately, Department of State regulations require you to finish the coursework and the school exam within 12 months of purchase — past that, the course has to be repurchased and retaken.
