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This is your path to a career in real estate. Unlock your real estate potential by learning how to apply the models, tools, and systems used by top industry professionals to build a business worth owning.
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No prior experience required to take the Keller Williams Real Estate Agent Professional Certificate.
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No prior experience required to take the Keller Williams Real Estate Agent Professional Certificate.
Explore the essential principles of real estate necessary for a successful career, including how to obtain a real estate license.
Learn the fundamental sales and business growth strategies to build a real estate business.
Understand the role of a real estate agent when working with buyers and sellers, from lead generation to closing the transaction.
Analyze, interpret, and reframe market data and effectively communicate its story to potential clients.
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Daily, millions of real estate agents around the world run their own businesses on their own schedules. The Keller Williams Real Estate Agent Professional Certificate will equip you with the knowledge and skills to excel as a real estate agent, including generating leads, interpreting market data, managing client relationships, and much more.
As an agent, you become your own boss and can take control of your day-to-day as well as the trajectory of your entire career. This program will provide you the knowledge of the career paths a person can choose after obtaining a real estate license. You’ll learn from industry leaders on best practices and apply your learning through real-world applications. If you are looking to own your own business, enjoy a fast-paced work environment, and are passionate about building relationships with people, then this program is right for you.
By the end of this program, you’ll be able to explain how real estate agents:
Understand models, methods, rules, and laws related to the real estate industry
Consult clients on current market conditions and act as a fiduciary
Guide buyers and sellers throughout the sales process
Effectively negotiate for clients
This program is not the equivalent of pre-licensing education or a real estate license. Real Estate License requirements vary from state to state. To learn more about specific license requirements, please visit your state’s real estate commission website.
Applied Learning Project
In the program you will have a chance to apply the skills that you learn through a variety of learner-centric activities. In each course, you will:
Learn the foundational models and job skills used by high-performing real estate agents through instructional videos.
Hear real-world stories from current real estate agents detailing their experiences as real estate professionals.
Expand your knowledge through readings, practical applications, and scenarios
Build community by sharing ideas with other program participants using discussion prompts.
Show what you have learned through assessments, hands-on projects, and peer-reviewed activities.
Each learning opportunity allows you to build your knowledge and ignite your passion for beginning a career as a real estate professional.
This course is the first in a series of five courses designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills for achieving a successful career in real estate. In the Principles of Real Estate course, you will discover the day-to-day tasks of a real estate agent and how those tasks translate into successfully closed real estate transactions. You will also learn how a real estate agent gets paid, finds homes to sell, and identifies prospective buyers. Additionally, you will learn the importance of establishing and maintaining relationships that can impact a real estate business.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain how real estate agents: 1. Define their job tasks and duties. 2. Receive payment for real estate services. 3. Identify and prioritize day-to-day tasks. 4. Analyze, interpret, and reframe market data and communicate its story to potential clients. 5. Generate leads through a variety of methods to grow their business. 6. Build, use and manage a database.
In the Sales Fundamentals course, you will build on and apply the previously learned concepts of lead generation and database management to obtain a deeper understanding of how real estate agents work with leads and how agents convert leads to potential, current, and future business. You will also learn how agents create a lasting client experience that fosters long-term relationships and continuously feeds new leads into their business. Additionally, you will explore the opportunity to grow a business with the rental market.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain how real estate agents: 1. Generate leads through a variety of methods and convert those leads to appointments. 2. Manage leads in a database. 3. Construct a customer experience centered around business growth. 4. Compose brand standards that enhance the customer experience. 5. Grow a real estate business with a variety of different referral types. 6. Leverage the business opportunities of working with rental properties and leases.
The Establish Clients for Life with Buyers course explores the comprehensive approach that real estate agents take when working with buyers. You will learn how to generate buyer leads, conduct property showings, and nurture client relationships beyond the transaction’s conclusion, and all the essential steps in between.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain how real estate agents: 1. Manage the entire buyer lifecycle, from lead to closed contract. 2. Find buyer leads and how they convert the leads to appointments. 3. Plan and conduct buyer consultations that end with signed buyer representation agreements. 4. Show homes to buyers. 5. Prepare offers, negotiate offers, and get offers accepted. 6. Manage the post-closing process.
In the Establish Clients for Life with Sellers course, you will gain insight into a real estate agent’s comprehensive approach to working with sellers. This includes generating seller leads, mastering the art of conducting a listing consultation, navigating the listing selling process, and nurturing client relationships beyond the transaction’s conclusion.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain how real estate agents: 1. Execute the process of listing and selling a home. 2. Find seller leads and convert the leads to appointments. 3. Conduct listing consultations that end with a signed listing agreement. 4. Market homes to get them sold. 5. Make, receive, present, and negotiate offers for listings. 6. Manage the post-closing process.
The Manage a Real Estate Business course teaches you relevant real estate laws and their potential impact on your licensed real estate agent business. Throughout this course, you will acquire the skills needed to establish a strong foundation for a financially sound business, including the development of best practices. Additionally, you will dig into effective organizational and administrative strategies essential for business ownership. Lastly, this course will encourage you to reflect on your individual journey in real estate, aligning your personal goals with the various career options available in the field.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain how real estate agents: 1. Adhere to relevant real estate laws. 2. Build a financially sound real estate business 3. Create organizational office and administrative systems for business success. 4. Employ personal development strategies for achieving a thriving real estate career. 5. Obtain a real estate license.
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Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams, the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count, has more than 1,100 offices and 187,000 agents. The franchise is also No. 1 in units and sales volume in the United States. Since 1983, the company has cultivated an agent-centric, technology-driven, and education-based culture that rewards agents as stakeholders. For more information, visit https://thrive.kw.com/our-story/.
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This five-course Professional Certification from Keller Williams Realty is for, but is not limited to:
Individuals new to the residential real estate industry,
Real estate professionals looking to level up their skill set,
Individuals looking to learn how to supplement their income with an additional income stream, or
Individuals interested in switching careers into real estate.
Education requirements vary by state. Some states require a high school diploma or GED to get a license while others only require pre-licensure. To learn more about specific license requirements, please visit your state’s real estate commission website.
To transact real estate, you must be licensed. This course is not equivalent to pre-license or licensure. To get licensed in the United States you will need to complete all requirements set by your state’s real estate commission. This usually includes
An age requirement, usually 18 years of age or older
Prelicensing education
Real Estate exam
License application
Keller Williams was founded in 1983 by Gary Keller and is headquartered in Austin Texas. Keller Williams is the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count, and has more than 1,100 offices and 180,000 associates. The company has cultivated an agent-centric, education-based, technology-driven culture that rewards associates as stakeholders. For more information, visit https://headquarters.kw.com
According to NAR, the National Association of Realtors, real estate practices vary from country to country. For general guidelines of practices in countries around the world as provided by NARs Cooperating Association partners, please visit https://www.nar.realtor/global/real-estate-practices-around-the-world.
Depending on your goals you might choose to pursue getting your real estate license.
When you have completed the professional certificate you can choose to pursue getting your real estate license. Each state has its own requirements for getting a license and Keller Williams offers KSCORE, Keller Successful Career Opportunities in Real Estate.
Keller Successful Career Opportunities in Real Estate (KSCORE) is 100% digital and entirely free to students. In an industry first, Keller Williams is offering access to the state-approved education courses provided by Kaplan Real Estate Education and assisting aspiring agents on a direct path to licensure and profitability. KSCORE makes pre-licensure more accessible than ever by providing a clear, self-paced path to obtaining a real estate license.
KSCORE also offers a robust library of online state-approved continuing education courses, provided by Kaplan Real Estate Education, for currently licensed agents and brokers. Learn more at https://kscore.kw.com/
Keller Williams offers a digital pre-licensing curriculum geared toward placing aspiring agents on a direct path to licensure and profitability through KSCORE.
You will gain access to enroll in KSCORE, Keller Successful Career Opportunities in Real Estate, state-approved education courses provided by Kaplan Real Estate Education.
Keller Successful Career Opportunities in Real Estate (KSCORE) was created in 2021 for aspiring real estate students to bridge the gap and provide equitable opportunities for all. By removing this initial barrier to entry, KSCORE helps ensure aspiring agents of all backgrounds have the opportunity to enter a life-changing career in real estate.
KSCORE is 100% digital and free to students and makes pre-licensure more accessible than ever by providing a clear, self-paced path to obtaining a real estate license.
Your enrollment in KSCORE does not require a commitment to Keller Williams. Our goal is to remove the financial barrier to entry into the real estate field and make a career in real estate more achievable than ever before.
Learn more at https://kscore.kw.com/
A real estate agent is a licensed professional who facilitates the buying, selling, or renting of property, including residential homes, commercial properties, land, and other real estate assets. Agents act as intermediaries between buyers and sellers during real estate transactions.
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¹ Median salary and job opening data are sourced from Lightcast™ Job Postings Report. Data for job roles relevant to featured programs (2/1/2024 - 2/1/2025)
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