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SAE: Real Estate Appraisal

Education Provider #701075   Course Approval #235

While you may not be an appraiser, understanding real estate appraisals is an important part of your job. The State of Texas requires licensees to have a solid understanding of the appraisal process. This 30-hour course covers the real estate appraisal topics that you need to know to stay up-to-date. Topics include the core purposes and functions of an appraisal, social and economic determinants of value, and a review of the three main approaches to appraisals (sales, cost and income).  This course also includes practical case studies.

Course Facts

Documentation Provided
Certificate of Completion

Credit
30 Mandatory Hours

Course Type
100% Online

Regulatory Agency
Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC)

Course Schedule
Self-Paced & Available 24/7

Proctoring
Required

Course Outline

Topic Duration
Texas SAE Real Estate Appraisal Introduction 0 minutes
Appraisers and the Real Estate Market 100 minutes
Appraisal Math and Statistics 75 minutes
Appraising Real Property Value 175 minutes
Construction and Property Value 225 minutes
The USPAP Appraisal Process 50 minutes
Gathering Data 100 minutes
Site Valuation 100 minutes
The Sales Comparison Approach to Appraisal 100 minutes
The Cost Approach to Appraisal 175 minutes
The Income Approach to Appraisal 100 minutes
Direct and Yield Capitalization 100 minutes
Appraising Partial Interests 50 minutes
Reconciliation and the Appraisal Report 50 minutes
Appraisal Workshop for Real Estate Professionals 100 minutes
Texas SAE Real Estate Appraisal Course Wrap Up 0 minutes

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 

All of our courses are completely online and self-paced.  Our courses are a combination of text and interactive elements which consist of videos, audio, true/false matching, vocabulary matching, scenario based learning and much more.  This format makes our courses both interesting and engaging.

TREC requires that all SAE course final exams be proctored or monitored by a disinterested third party proctor. Our course packages include proctoring at no additional cost.  Our proctoring solution is 100% online and can be utilized anytime at your convenience.

Yes, TREC requires 3 days to elapse between the time you start your course and when you take your final exam. Please be sure to wait a full 3 days from starting your course to taking your final exam, otherwise TREC will not award you credit for completing the course.

By keeping our operating costs low and only offering online courses, we’re able to save on overhead costs that other brands can’t and pass the savings along to you!

Students have up to two attempts to pass the final exams with a 70% of higher passing score. If both attempts are exhausted, students will be required to start over from the beginning and pass all lesson quizzes to move on to the final exam again.

TREC requires that all SAE course final exams be proctored or monitored by a disinterested third party proctor. Our course packages include proctoring at no additional cost.  Our proctoring solution is 100% online and can be utilized anytime at your convenience.

Your satisfaction is our top priority. We take our commitment to providing quality real estate education seriously.

If you are not satisfied with our courses for any reason, we will offer you a full refund if the request is submitted within 30 days of purchase and the course is not more than 50% completed. You can sign up for our courses with confidence!

If you would like to request a refund, please send us an email requesting a refund along with a copy of your purchase receipt or order number to support@licenseclassroom.com.

Each 30 Credit Hour course will take a minimum of 3 days (72 hours) to complete, and TREC will verify this by looking at course start and completion times on each course certificate. The maximum amount of time that you may spend on a particular course per day is 12 hours.

No, Sales Agent Apprentice Education (SAE) courses are only required for your first real estate license renewal in Texas, which is two years after you obtain a real estate license.

The first renewal requires a total of 270 qualifying real estate course hours. If you obtained your license by submitting 180 hours of qualifying courses, you will need an additional 90 hours of elective SAE courses, plus 4 hours each of Legal Update I and Legal Update II courses. Sales agents who have been made a supervisor by their broker must also take the 6-hour Broker Responsibility course to renew.

All subsequent renewals after the SAE renewal will require only 18 hours of Continuing Education (CE).

Yes, we automatically report your SAE course completions to TREC typically within 1-2 business days.