New Hope for the Housing Market? - Broker

Understand the Backstory of the Nation’s Housing Market and What Actions You Can Take to Help Meet Your Clients’ Housing Needs in Colorado

This CO online real estate course provides you with information on the nation’s real estate housing market today. Simply, there is too much demand and not enough affordable housing. Prices are fluctuating, and the market is difficult to predict. This national real estate course will discuss the history of real estate in the United States, including significant architectural, geographic, and societal developments that impact homebuyers and housing availability. You will delve into federal and state initiatives to improve the housing situation, as well as what the future holds for buyers, sellers, real estate licensees, and the nation’s market. In addition, you will learn specific action steps that you can take to protect consumers and provide for your clients’ changing housing needs. The final exam is 30 multiple-choice items.

This course has been approved by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Real Estate, for 4 hours of real estate continuing education.

Choose the training method that works best for you! This course is offered a variety of training methods to fit your learning style. 

• Live Online*: Experience the benefits of interactive instruction in a live classroom setting from anywhere you can be online. Kaplan delivers expert instructors and high-quality course material directly to you in real-time. If you do not see Live Online as a training method option in the drop-down above, we are working to add more course dates as soon as possible.
• Online Video: Kaplan's prerecorded, instructor-led video courses are just what you need. Learn from charismatic, respected instructors while being able to stop, start, and resume your real estate courses as needed.
  

*IMPORTANT:All students attending a live online class must have their webcams enabled and remain in view of their camera for the entire duration of the class. Kaplan also requires the use of Zoom for live online classes. You must have Zoom downloaded and installed on your computer/laptop, and you must have a Zoom account.

Key Points:

• Recognize the impact of the historical real estate backdrop on architectural development, exclusion in housing, and the importance of Fair Housing laws and ethics in practice.
• Understand the current context of the nation’s housing crisis, including fluctuations in interest rates and geographical trends and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other influences. 
• Learn action steps to protect your consumers and provide for their housing needs in affordable ways such as increasing your knowledge of accessory dwelling units and manufactured housing, and how to develop networks, and lobby lawmakers.