The Real Estate Licensing curriculum provides licensing education required by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission for students preparing to take the real estate license examination and for provisional brokers that are seeking removal of the provisional status. 

Course work includes the practices and principles of real estate, broker relationships as they apply to customers, sellers and buyers, contract procedures, fair housing and real estate methodology.  Course work also includes professional development opportunities.

Graduates who have passed the real estate license examination and obtained a real estate provisional broker license should then qualify for removal of the provisional status and be able to provide basic, residential real estate services as a broker affiliated with a real estate brokerage firm. 

A student must secure his/her provisional broker license before proceeding into the post-licensure courses and must complete the three mandatory post-licensing courses within three years of licensure in order to avoid cancellation of his/her license.

RLS 112 (Real Estate) Broker Prelicensing course is the only course which must be completed successfully in order to apply to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission to take the state license examination. There is no prerequisite. Each newly licensed broker will be classified as a “provisional broker.” The postlicensing education must be completed within three years of initial licensure in order to remove the “provisional” status and to retain the broker license. The basic prerequisite for enrollment in any of the three broker postlicensing courses (Broker Relationships, Contracts and Closing, or Select Real Estate Issues) is a North Carolina real estate license on provisional status or license reinstatement. Students will be prohibited from taking two or more postlicensing courses simultaneously if such enrollment would result in the student being in postlicensing classes for more than 21 classroom hours in any given seven-day period.

There are 80 class hours in RCCC’s Broker Prelicensing course, 32 class hours in each postlicensing course, and 32 class hours in the Real Estate Mathematics course. Those who complete Broker Prelicensing (RLS 112), Broker Relationships (RLS 121), Contracts and Closing (RLS 122), Select Real Estate Issues (RLS 123) and Real Estate Mathematics (RLS 113) earn an RCCC Real Estate Licensing certificate.

Individuals applying to the Real Estate Commission to take the state license examination must have proof of successful completion of the prelicensing course submitted electronically to the Commission by the course provider. RCCC also provides a course completion certificate to each student as proof of appropriate prelicensing and postlicensing education. RCCC's passing grade for the  prelicensing course is 80%. RCCC’s passing grade for the postlicensing courses and mathematics course is 75%. Students should also be aware that the Commission requires students to attend at least 80% of the scheduled hours of instruction in the prelicensing course and all three postlicensing courses.

The 80 class hours of the Broker Prelicensing course will be taught in an 8-week minimester with two 5-hour classes per week (day) or in a 16-week semester with one 5-hour class per week (evening and Saturday). The broker postlicensing courses (Broker Relationships, Contracts & Closing, and Select Real Estate Issues) each having 32 class hours will be taught in a 4-week format with two 4-hour classes per week or an 8-week format with one 4-hour class per week. The Real Estate Mathematics course will be taught in either a 16-week semester with one 2-hour class or an 8-week minimester with two 2-hour classes per week. The Broker Prelicensing course will be taught during the Fall and Spring Semesters (depending upon adequate enrollment and the availability of an instructor). The broker postlicensing courses will be offered year round.