News Articles about Real Estate Education and Regulations Updates

The Growth of Online Real Estate Education

In recent years, online real estate education has seen significant growth as more people recognize the c... Read More

As mortgage rates continue to rise, Florida's real estate market is undergoing significant changes. Realtors in the Sunshine State must adapt to these shifti... Read More

Florida's real estate market is booming, and it's an excellent time to pursue a career in this dynamic and rewarding industry. At Cooke Real Estate School in... Read More

So far in 2022, the pandemic has certainly slowed down, thank goodness, and mask requirements have been waived in many areas.  A few real estate schools ar... Read More

Since the beginning of 2021, the real estate school business has had some major changes. Old established real estate schools, which have been around for year... Read More

As students go through the pre-license course that they purchased, their goal is to acquire the real estate license by passing the required course exam as well ... Read More

......Americans are starting to feel there is hope on the horizon.   The biggest driving issue on this hope feeling is that people are interacting wit... Read More

What a year 2020 has been, for it certainly has caused lots of changes overall in education.  For an online real estate school, it certainly has affected o... Read More

A lot of schools and regulatory agencies across the country have approved live interactive education to help perspective licensees have an avenue to acquire a r... Read More

The corona virus is a horrendous event for all. In the real estate school business, it is certainly a challenge as it is for everyone. In my communications with... Read More

We thank all our students and our school's patrons, who have referred their friends and real estate licensees to our real estate licensing programs.  W... Read More

On December 31, 2015, one of the three real estate exam providers in the United States, PSI bought AMP.  PSI was providing real estate state exams in twent... Read More

There are a lot of things students can do to increase their odds to pass the State Exam. Here are a few points to remember:

1. Be positive, and reali... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School is about to launch our newest website. We hope students will find it easier to view and peruse course information on their mobile phone... Read More

Here are some key points to share and add to the previous discussion.

On February 13, 2019, our beloved instructor and friend, Steven Frank Nelson, passed away. 

Steve joined our firm in September 2006. Steve w... Read More

1. The three major State Exam providers across the country has been primarily three companies over many years: PearsonVUE, AMP, and PSI. Some months ba... Read More

A lot has happened at Cooke Real Estate School since our last school news notice in May.  We now have special real estate online Exam Prep courses for the ... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School’s goal is for all our students to find success, not only on the course and the course-end-course exam, but the so important State... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School's staff and instructors very much appreciate the wonderful Testimonials students have voluntarily submitted to the school over the year... Read More

AMP is the real estate license exam provider in 12 states. Cooke Real Estate School provides the pre-license course in six of these states: Alabama, Montana, Ne... Read More

Part 4: The time issue between Course and State Exam:

As we all know, passing the state exam is the educational hurdle students have in thei... Read More

Part 3: Preparing for the State Exam

The biggest hurdle in obtaining a real estate license is not passing the required prelicense course, ... Read More

Part 2:  Read the Question – To Understand What is Being Asked
 
Besides needing to get a better handle on definitions of k... Read More

Part I: Know the Definitions of Key terms:
As owner of Cooke Real Estate School I reviewed hundreds of students' end-of-course exams and one item ... Read More

As the owner of Cooke Real Estate School, I have handled hundreds of questions from potential and current students wanting to know what it takes to be successfu... Read More

In the first quarter of 2017 the publisher of all the real state courses Cooke Real Estate School provides throughout the United States, Dearborn Real Estate Ed... Read More

Very few states actually provide the “pass-fail” reports for individual school’s students.  In the states that Cooke Real Estate School p... Read More

To help students find success in the real estate profession after obtaining  their real estate license, Cooke Real Estate School has now available an onlin... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School launches a newly revised online North Dakota Salesperson License Course and North Dakota Broker License Course so all of Cooke's No... Read More

From our last Cooke News release on March 10, 2017, we have obtained approval for three 48 Hour Kentucky Broker courses: 48 Hour Real Estate Investment, 48 Hou... Read More

As the owner of Cooke Real Estate School, and being involved in the real estate school business since 1978, I look back and view in amazement the changes that h... Read More

Our real estate school continues to expand. We are now offering the pre-license salesperson course for the District of Columbia. We look forward to a great r... Read More

Good question! Here are the goals of state regulatory real estate agencies in requiring a pre-license course:

1. To each the student the langu... Read More

All of Cooke Real Estate School is mourning the loss yesterday (July 16, 2016) of one of the most knowledgeable real estate instructors in Florida. Dallie Mori... Read More

I just got back Monday from the REEA convention in Denver and wanted to relay some of the results I brought back to our real estate school.

I have... Read More

One of the changes in real estate education over the last years is appraisal profession. There has been a huge fall off of new students entering the appraisal ... Read More

Jim and Mary Sweetin have both been instructing real estate since September 1987. Both Jim and Mary started their real estate instructor career with Coo... Read More

On about this next Tuesday or Wednesday our website is getting a face-lift. In today's online world, so many of our students are not only accessing our school's... Read More

Our school had a booth at the Florida Association of REALTORS® EXPO Tradeshow a week or so ago and one could see by all counts, lots of enthusiasm within th... Read More

It has taken sometime but now an individual can get their career started in all Florida's real estate professions from their home.

Back around 2000,... Read More

We just finished the two required pre-license courses for licensure in Pennsylvania. We received ARELLO approval this last Monday, so now we are in the proces... Read More

I came across a presentation that was made to Florida real estate instructors and appraiser instructors in 2013 by DBPR’s Bureau of Education and Testing, which... Read More

.....and close out the old one, we get a chance to reflect on the past 365 days and think about the future in real estate education field.

Lots has hap... Read More

As the owners of Cooke Real Estate School, Beth Cooke and I are so thankful for the wonderful staff that we have. They are all professionals and care about eac... Read More

Very soon courses will be available for students to take all four of the required appraisal Trainee courses online. The required Certified Residential courses ... Read More

A lot has happened since our last post on July 4th. We had a booth at the Florida Association of REALTORS® Convention in Orlando in August. We had a lot of pa... Read More

In my blog of May 22, I stated the state of Florida has had huge increases in applications for individuals to take the state exam to become real estate licensee... Read More

Comparing the interest in a real estate career in Florida from January through April of 2013 to the same time frame in 2014, there has been a substantial increa... Read More

Before, I discuss the ARELLO certificate renewal, I wanted to say that my wife and I are owners of Cooke Real Estate School and this last week the youngest of ... Read More

This last week our school put into play the school's new Course Page for all Cooke School's streaming video courses. The objectives of the upgrade are to: Read More

There is certainly a better feeling about the real estate business today than there was a year ago or even three years ago. Plus, most people I talk to in the ... Read More

Tomorrow brings a new beginning when we all enter the New Year. I always look forward to a new year, for life gives us so much excitement and opportunities, an... Read More

When a student is considering taking a course, one of the important questions they ask themselves is should I take an online course or should I take an in class... Read More

Last month, at a banquet, the National Association of Realtors® through the local association of Realtors®, awarded a group of about 40-50 Realtors® the status ... Read More

Over the years since around 1997, our school has three different websites. Today we have our 4th new site. As you have viewed the website, it has fewer graphi... Read More

The Bureau of Education and Testing in the state of Florida did an analysis; they asked exam takers from April 1, 2013 to June 4, 2013, if they took the course ... Read More

As of August 21, 2013 Cooke obtained approval to provide the required 18 Hour Pre-License Community Association Manager (CAM) License by online streaming video ... Read More

August is almost gone and it has been 20 days since my last blog. On Thursday and Friday of this week (August 15 and 16) my wife Beth and I are going to have a... Read More

It has been an interesting week couple of weeks. On June 21 and June 22, I attended the national Real Estate Educators (REEA) convention in Ames, Iowa. Over ... Read More

June has been a busy week for our school because during this month Cooke Real Estate School was approved by three different states to provide our pre-license on... Read More

For the second consecutive month of this year, the pass rate on the state exam is lowest it has been in recent memory.

In 2007, the pass rate on the ... Read More

March’s Florida’s DBPR state exam report for the 1,146 real estate applicants taking the FREC I state exam from all schools, showed that only 27% passed. This ... Read More

The purpose of these real estate classes, the content of which is under the direct control of your Real Estate Commission, is twofold. The first consideration ... Read More

The real estate school business picked up in 2012 and we are now off and running into 2013. In Florida, our home state, new licensees picked up about 22% since... Read More

The appraisal field has changed more than any field in real estate profession in the last 5 years. Because of the housing crash the regulations in the appraisa... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School has again met the required accreditation standards for continued membership since 2003 with the Better Business Bureau organization.Read More

Would you believe that you can become a Florida license home inspector by taking an approved online course? The answer to that question is absolutely…YES. Wit... Read More

Being a real estate school owner and REALTOR, I get asked by friends and acquaintances all the time, “How is business?” “Is the real estate business getting any... Read More

1. At the Sonic Foundry’s annual convention in Madison Wisconsin, our school was a finalist in the Enterprise category regarding our use of Mediasite’s video pr... Read More

The day has arrived when the technology is available that real estate license students can take a real estate license course on their iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, ... Read More

Had breakfast this morning with a senior officer of Dearborn Real Estate Education and she stated that the real estate school industry, in some parts of the cou... Read More

The big question many people is what course method of instruction is best? The answer to that question is really up to each individual because each person has ... Read More

Wow…we are finally into 2012!! 2011 was a difficult year for most businesses and especially those businesses in the real estate industry. But as we look into ... Read More

Hard to believe 2011 is coming to a close. As I look forward for some positive indications of a turnaround in the real estate school business, I look to variou... Read More

Our school started Cooke School’s Facebook page in June of this year. Since we implemented Facebook page, we have been very excited about the results our fans ... Read More

As we move into the 4th Quarter of 2011, I am always amazed at the changes that have taken place in the real estate school business in such a short period of ti... Read More

Online education is getting more and more like an in-class environment. Over the last five years Cooke Real Estate School has continued to expand its video str... Read More

For years, Education has been done mainly on the face to face basis. However, with time as the education advanced to newer heights, numerous subjects started to... Read More

Can’t believe I have had a month go by since my last blog on June 28, how time flies. Since that time we now have 328 people who have been kind enough to click ... Read More

One evening, a year or so ago, my daughter told me I needed to get involved with Facebook. I told her I really wasn’t interested. She said dad, “it is easy an... Read More

Mark Jennings, Cooke Real Estate School’s vice president, and I just got back home from attending the annual REEA convention in Las Vegas. REEA is an organizat... Read More

In 2008, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Lending Act of 2008 became law and it established requirements for the licensing and registration of all m... Read More

Students ask me all the time, what does it take to pass the course and pass the real estate state exam? As the owner of Cooke Real Estate School, I always give... Read More

As of May 3, 2011, Cooke Real Estate School received approval to provide the 60 Hour Montana streaming video on-demand broker course. ARELLO certification was ... Read More

One of the qualifications required for being a provider of courses in states that require ARELLO certification is the course needs to be ARELLO Certified. ARE... Read More

The real estate school industry has certainly been changing for the last six months with online course providers such as AmericasBest being consolidated with 36... Read More

Well we are nearing the end of the first quarter of 2011, and it seems like just yesterday was Christmas and we were just getting excited about leaving 2010 and... Read More

Distance learning has come a long way into the real estate licensing process. Every state today does allow distance learning for continuing education. As for ... Read More

Cooke Real Estate School is proud of the fact that the school just got our ARELLO recertification for the 60 Hour Real Estate Principles Course. Cooke currentl... Read More

Most businesses are certainly glad to have 2010 gone. The number of students applying for a real estate license continued to drop during 2010 compared to 2009.... Read More

As we enter the New Year, we all ask, where is the real estate market going?
Those in the real estate school business ask, when is a real estate career a fi... Read More

The ever changing world of real estate education made another turn this month with the sale of www.RealEstateSchoolOnline.com to Kaplan/Dearborn Real Estate Edu... Read More

Every year the Georgia Real Estate Educators Association and the Georgia Real Estate Commission have an annual real estate school meeting. The meeting is held ... Read More

The WVREC moved to require on July 31, 2010, ARELLO certification for all their online real estate license courses. In November they extended the requirement to... Read More

Since the hay days of 2005, the real estate license school business, as most all real estate businesses, have done, has fallen out of the sky. Most schools fo... Read More

As the year wines down, real estate education for 2010 has seen some changes, both good and bad. A good change is the distance learning IDECC and ARELLO guidel... Read More

In July of this year, the president signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Along with other provisions, it includes sev... Read More

Yesterday, September 13, 2010 we received this note from the Real Estate Educators Association (REEA)

The Real Estate Educators Association (REEA) toda... Read More

Enrollment for pre-license courses has been up for the first five months of the year over last year, but in comparing enrollment from June through August of thi... Read More

REALTORS® buying property for their own account are sometimes wondering what they should disclose and not disclose in regards to their relationship to the buyer... Read More

What the percentage of students are taking online courses as compared to the conventional classroom. In actuality, I have no real idea but here is what I do kno... Read More

Well the first half of 2010 is gone and as we look backward and forward, we see lots of hope in the real estate school industry. In our biggest state, Florida,... Read More

As more and more student are attracted to the distance learning courses for prelicense, post license and continuing education requirements, regulators and dista... Read More

As Cooke Real Estate School moves forward with new ARELLO guidelines, our school continues to improve our online streaming video courses. Here are a few of the... Read More

ARELLO stands for “The Association of Real Estate License Law Enforcement Officials” which set standards that online real estate license courses have to abide b... Read More

Testing is controversial and, not so incidentally, is a big, big business. Progress during school years is measured solely by various tests that are approved by... Read More

First half of 2010 is over and Cooke Real Estate School continues to move forward in its effort to expand it streaming video pre-license course platform into to... Read More

In the REALTOR national magazine May issue in a survey of REALTORS, it showed that agents who earn $10,000 to $25,000 in 2009 spent a lean $2,220 that ye... Read More

The last few years have been tough for real estate, but exactly how tough? Tough enough of lop off a quarter of licensees income, according to the 2010 National... Read More

What do you have to tell a prospective buyer about the seller’s house?

All states, even buyer-beware states, require a buyer be told everything that a... Read More

In today’s world, every real estate agents needs to have their own website. But learning how to do it and what to do is always and issue.

Here are my... Read More

The first step for a newly license agent is to go find a broker in which to work. Students ask me all the time, what should I look for and do I have any recomme... Read More

Imagine we are standing on the porch of a home, you as the agent and I am your prospective buyer. While turning the key in the door lock you casually mention, “... Read More

You as an agent represent the buyer who is interested in a bank-owned (REO) property. The bank give you an addendum for the buyer to sign which states that the... Read More

This is a great question and I wish I had all the answers. But over the last year or so our real estate school has tried to get better website presents for our... Read More

Yesterday, April 15, 2010, Cooke Real Estate School began offering e-books relating to the real estate business free to the general public. All one has to do t... Read More

While lending has been tight in many parts of the country, some markets are definitely more robust than others. Forbes compiled a list of the best cities for bo... Read More

A book written by Frank Cook. No that is not Frank Cooke, the owner of Cooke (with and “e” ) Real Estate School.
This 220 page book published by Dearborn Rea... Read More

WASHINGTON – April 5, 2010 – Effective today, the short sale process is simplified. The only problem: Many lenders don’t know it, and Realtors may have to convi... Read More

I recently took a 72 Hr Real Estate Course over a two week period. I would like to share my ideas on how to pass your test from my own personal experience.
<... Read More

About 12 years ago, Cooke Real Estate School started broadcasting the pre-license sales course live on the Cooke Real Estate School website. This was before UT... Read More

Unfortunately, the short sale market has been playing a huge role in the sale of real estate for the past year or so. Just as we discussed in an earlier blog h... Read More

FHA’s tightened lending requirements, announced late January, are designed to shore up the FHA’s capital reserves and help the agency do a better job of managin... Read More

National Association of REALTORS chief Economist Lawrence Yun predicts a sustainable recovery for housing and the overall economy in 2010, thanks in part to the... Read More

Over the years, since the beginning of real estate licensing, license laws have been developed by state legislatures, so as of today every individual state has ... Read More

Distance learning has been around for many years, but somewhat new to the real estate license field. In 2004 there were 27 states that allowed distance learnin... Read More

There are lots of things students can to increase odds to pass the state exam. Here are a few points to remember

1. Be positive, realize that you don’... Read More

TALLAHASSEE—The Department of Business and Professional Regulation is taking its business directly to customers during the “On the Road 2 Better Business, Part ... Read More

The real estate school business of providing real estate license courses to students desiring to enter the real estate profession can offer a snap shot view of ... Read More

Many Department of Business and Professional Regulation customers are small business owners who need support during this challenging economic time. Governor... Read More

How is your real estate school business?

Students ask instructors, real estate schools ask real estate schools, the real estate school business has be... Read More

As of February 15, 2010, Cooke Real Estate School will have the only on line course offering in West Virginia for the 90 Hour West Virginia Principles Course as... Read More

Don't forget- March is renewal time for Florida sales associates and brokers.

Cooke Real Estate School offers online CEU and Post License Courses.Read More

Cooke Real Estate School continues to expand it course offerings.

Frank Cooke announced today that the school just received approval from the Wisconsin... Read More