National Designation Courses

SRES Designation (Senior Real Estate Specialist)

Course Length: 2 days*

An NAR designation created to assist qualified REALTORS wanting to meet the special needs and concerns of age 50+ property owners.

You will learn:

· How to develop and maintain Relationship Marketing skills

· Team-building skills with other Senior Professionals

· Overviews of tax laws, probate and estate planning

· Variety of equity conversion strategies

· How to help seniors make wise decisions about their real estate holdings.

*Eligible for CE credit if applicable in your state

ABR (Accredited Buyer Representative)

Course Length: 2 Days (9-5)*

An NAR Designation for those who want to work effectively with buyers.

Learn the laws of agency and how to use them.

You will learn:

· The theory and practice of agency

·Examination of types of service that can and cannot be performed in the various aspects of agency.

· How to build your buyer representative Service business

· How to protect your clients during the offer and negotiation stages

*Eligible for CE credit if applicable in your state

NAR’s Green Designation Core Course

Course Length: 2 days

Now more than ever, real estate consumers are motivated to understand green and its benefits. This core course gives professionals the training they need to represent today's sellers and buyers.

You will learn :

· Integrate green concepts and benefits into a personal viewpoint that informs choices in real estate business practice.

· Acquire the concepts and vocabulary of the green paradigm as applied in real estate and use this terminology correctly in interactions with customers and clients.

· Recognize, validate, and respond to concerns and priorities of the green-generation consumer-seller, buyer, tenant, builder, developer.

· Make the appropriate disclosures consistent with NAR Code of Ethics and state regulations.

· Identify how the green philosophy can be employed in housing of all types.

· Recognize the features that make a home or building green and resource efficient in construction or remodeling, use, and operation