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• How to Earn an Arkansas Real Estate License
• Real Estate Requirements
• As a Salesperson Applicant You Must:
• As a Broker Applicant You Must:
• Salesperson & Broker Applicants Currently Licensed In Another State:
• Post-Licensure Requirements
• Fees

How to Earn an Arkansas Real Estate License

To earn an Arkansas real estate salesperson license you must, by State law:

1. Attend an approved real estate school
    
2. Upon successfully completing your pre-licensing course, you must then pass a state examination
    
3. Upon passing the state examination, you must apply for your license and pay the fees to become an official licensee

Your tuition for the pre-licensing course at Camp Real Estate School includes your textbooks and all supplemental educational materials, instruction and refreshment breaks.

Real Estate Requirements

The Arkansas Real Estate License Examinations are developed and administered by Pearson VUE, a national independent testing company. The testing method in Arkansas is on a personal computer which eliminates the use of paper answer sheets. Knowledge of computers and typing is NOT required or needed.

As a Salesperson Applicant, you must:

1. Have reached the age of majority, eighteen (18)
    
2. Successfully complete sixty (60) hours of real estate education, of which thirty (30) hours must be in basic principles of real estate, from an approved school
    
3. Submit application to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission with the application fee and processing fee for the federal and state criminal background checks
    
4. Have both FBI and state police fingerprint cards completed at a local police or sheriff’s department, then submit with your Arkansas Real Estate license application
    
5. Pass the license examination
    
6. Submits the proper forms and fees to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission (as set forth on the passing score report issued by Pearson VUE at the time of examination) no later than ninety (90) days after passing the examination

As a Broker Applicant, you must:

1. Have reached the age of majority, eighteen (18)
    
2. Successfully complete, within the thirty-six (36) months immediately preceding the date of the application, sixty (60) hours of real estate principles, license law, and commission regulations. All hours must be from an approved school
    
3. Have been licensed as an active real estate salesperson for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) months within the previous forty-eight (48) month period immediately preceding the date of application. Upon written request such experience requirements may be waived for a real estate broker applicant who has held an active real estate broker’s license for a period of not less than eighteen (18) months or has experience acceptable to the commission in a field considered real estate related for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) months within the previous forty-eight (48) month period immediately preceding application. [ACA Sect. 17-42-303 and Commission Regulation 4.1]
    
4. Submit application to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission with the application fee and processing fee for the federal and state criminal background checks
    
5. Have both FBI and state police fingerprint cards completed at a local police or sheriff’s department, then submit with your Arkansas Real Estate license application
    
6. Pass the license examination
    
7. Submit the proper forms and fees to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission (as set forth on the passing score report issued by Person VUE at the time of examination) no later than ninety (90) days after passing the examination

Salesperson & Broker Applicants Currently Licensed In Another State:

A salesperson or broker applicant who has met the Arkansas Real Estate Commission's (AREC) pre-licensing education requirements and is currently licensed in another state and seeking licensure in Arkansas at the same level, may request a waiver of the GENERAL portion of the examination. Applicants who meet all three (3) of the following requirements may be required to take only the Arkansas Law Portion of the Examination:

1. The applicant has passed a uniform, general, or multi-state part of an examination for a real estate license in another state, which the examination is determined by the Arkansas Real Estate Commission to meet generally acceptable standards of real estate testing, and
    
2. The other state requires a minimum passing grade no lower than that required for the general part of the Arkansas examination (70%), and
    
3. The applicant at the time of taking the Arkansas examination is licensed in the other state. [Commission Regulation 4.2 (d)]

The Commission, after review, will notify all applicants who have qualified to take only the Arkansas Law portion of the examination.

Real Estate Commissions and Boards across the USA are adopting policies for a real estate broker or salesperson in one state to be licensed in another state. AREC has entered into reciprocal agreements with some states. If you would like to have more information about how to be licensed in another state, contact the Real Estate Commission in the state in which you are interested.

Post-Licensure Requirements

Each salesperson and broker who is initially licensed after January 1, 2002, will complete a post-license education course(s) as established by the Commission for Salespersons & Associate Brokers. Said course(s) must be completed within one (1) year of initial licensure to remain active. For Principle and Executive Brokers said courses must be completed prior to activating your brokers license.

Fees

The fees to take the Real Estate Examination are as follows:

$50.00 - application fee payable to AREC and sent to AREC with the application for examination

$22.00 - fee for State criminal background check payable to AREC and sent to AREC with the application for examination

$19.25 - fee for Federal criminal background check payable to the AREC with a cashier check or money order and sent to AREC with the application for examination (this can be combined with the application fee and state criminal background fee for a total of $91.25)

$75.00 - examination fee payable to Pearson VUE, the testing company, which is paid at the test center

$50.00 - license activation fee payable to the AREC within ninety (90) days of the date the examination is passed

$25.00 - one time Recovery Fund Fee is required for each NEW licensee

The fees to take the Brokers Exam are as follows:

$50.00 - original broker license fee payable to AREC and sent to AREC with the application for examination

$22.00 - fee for State criminal background check payable to AREC and sent to AREC with the application for examination

$19.25 - fee for Federal criminal background check payable to the AREC with a cashier check or money order and sent to AREC with the application fee for examination (this can be combined with the application fee and state criminal background check for a total of $91.25)

$75.00 - examination fee payable to Person VUE, the testing company, which is paid at the test center

$50.00 - license activation fee payable to the AREC within ninety (90) days of the date the examination is passed

$25.00 - one time Recovery Fund Fee is required for each NEW licensee

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