Your Texas real estate broker license course, with a broker in your corner.
Climbing to a broker license shouldn't mean drowning in unguided PDFs. You get an active Texas broker on speed dial for the brokerage law, the team-building strategy, and everything between you and your own firm.
TREC requires at least 4 years of active experience as a licensed Texas sales agent (or as an out-of-state broker) within the 5 years before you apply. Not there yet? Start with your Sales Agent license instead — you can come back for Broker once you qualify. See the full Agent vs. Broker comparison.
Is School Estate a TREC provider? Yes — TREC-approved QE Provider #4546QP.
Why the number matters less than the outcome.
You'll find broker programs that charge twice what we do, and programs that charge half. The number on its own won't tell you which one gets you to broker. What actually matters is what happens after you enroll: who actually logs into your account when you're stuck on advanced brokerage law, who's there the night before your exam, who picks up the phone.
Here, that someone is a personal mentor instructor, an active Texas broker with 25+ years in the field who logs into your account, sees exactly where you are, and answers when you call. That's the math worth doing before you enroll anywhere.
You need the hours fast. You'll also need someone who's done this before.
Self-paced video courses with daily live support fit a busy schedule. You move as fast as you're able to, with no waiting on a classroom calendar.
Your mentor is an active Texas broker who's filed the TREC forms and sponsorships before. You'll know exactly what to submit, and when.
Beyond the license: guidance on structuring and launching your own firm, from someone who's actually run one.
Why real estate agents move up to a broker license.
A Texas sales agent license lets you practice under a sponsoring broker. A real estate broker license lets you be that broker. It's the next step in a real estate career for agents who want to run their own business, lead a team, or simply hold the highest license TREC issues.
Hang your own shingle as an individual broker, or become the designated broker of a business entity. The designated broker must be a managing officer of the company.
A sponsoring broker earns on their own deals plus a share of their agents' commission splits or fees, and takes responsibility for supervising those sales agents.
Keep working under another broker, earning mainly on your own deals, with the higher credential and the option to go independent later.
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The Path to Your Broker License
Learn through engaging video courses at your own pace, with clean PDF or printed materials, and daily live support around you the whole way.
Hit a dense rule or a tricky calculation? Text or call your personal Texas broker mentor anytime.
Join daily Zoom groups and live weekend Exam Crams until you feel 100% confident.
The same six agent courses, plus Brokerage, plus two electives.
Every Broker Pack includes all nine TREC-approved 30-hour real estate courses. If you already hold a Texas real estate license, you completed these six courses for your real estate sales agent license, and taking them again in the pack adds another 180 hours toward the 630 related hours TREC also requires. Both packages include the identical courses.
The following mandatory courses (210 hours)
The foundation: property ownership and interests, how real estate transactions work, and the vocabulary the rest of the courses build on.
Picks up where Principles I ends, rounding out the core concepts every Texas license holder is tested on.
Agency relationships, fiduciary duties, disclosure, and intermediary rules, seen now from the broker's side of the desk.
How contracts are formed, what makes them enforceable, and what happens when one party doesn't perform.
The TREC contract forms and addenda you'll use in real estate transactions, and how to complete them correctly.
Loan types, the lending process, and the real estate finance math that shows up on the exam and at the closing table.
The broker-only course: running a real estate brokerage and supervising agents. TREC requires it within 2 years of your application.
Two elective courses (60 hours)
Your pack comes with Real Estate Marketing and Real Estate Investment. Prefer Property Management? Ask and we'll swap it in for either one at no charge. TREC approves other electives too, including Real Estate Appraisal, Real Estate Law, and Real Estate Math, but any two approved electives meet the requirement.
Marketing listings and your own business, within TREC's advertising rules.
Evaluating income property and the numbers behind a real estate investment decision.
Leasing, tenants, and owner relationships. Available as a free swap on request.
Course access lasts 6 months. Students typically take about a week per course, but brokers often move faster because much of the material repeats what they studied for their sales license. Most spend the bulk of their time in exam prep. TREC caps qualifying coursework at 12 hours a day, so no 30-hour course can be finished in fewer than 3 days.
Each course final exam is online and open book.
There's no proctored course final exam to schedule and no testing center to drive to. Each course ends with an online, open-book final exam. You need 70% to pass, and you get 2 attempts. Pass the final and you receive credit for the course, and School Estate reports it to TREC for you.
Don't confuse a course final exam with the Texas real estate exam you take for your license. The broker state exam is proctored, closed book, and taken in person at a Pearson VUE test center. That's why exam prep is built into both packages.
The Texas broker exam, and the exam prep that gets you ready.
The Texas broker exam has a national portion and a state portion, each graded on its own. The exam fee is $39. You get three attempts at each portion, and if you fail only one portion, you retake just that portion, within one year of filing your application.
| Portion | Questions | Time | To pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| National portion | 85 questions | 150 minutes | 60 correct |
| State portion | 60 questions | 90 minutes | 38 correct |
Question counts include unscored pretest items. Source: Pearson VUE Texas Candidate Handbook.
Exam prep comes with both Broker Packs: video lessons, unlimited practice exams, daily live Zoom study groups, and weekend Exam Crams. We suggest practicing until you're scoring 85-90% before exam day, and your mentor instructor can see exactly which topics still need work.
Broker education requirements: 270 hours here, 630 related hours.
The Texas Real Estate Commission requires 900 hours of real estate education for a broker license. This course covers the 270 qualifying hours of that required education. The other 630 hours can come from qualifying or continuing education courses you've already taken, college courses in related subjects, a bachelor's degree (worth up to 300 hours), or experience points above the 720 minimum. Together with the experience requirement, these are TREC's broker pre-licensing requirements.
Those 630 hours must include the 6-hour Broker Responsibility course. It isn't part of the Broker Pack; it's $34 with our continuing education courses, and every broker takes it again as part of each license renewal. The education and experience requirements, including how the 720 points add up, are laid out step by step in How to Become a Texas Real Estate Broker.
Four steps once your coursework and experience report are ready.
The same TREC portal you already use as an agent, no new account, no activation email.
Attach your BL-A / BL-B experience forms documenting your 720 points. School Estate reports your broker courses to TREC for you.
Card payment inside REALM. This covers the application itself, separate from course tuition.
TREC processes your file, including the background check, and emails your exam eligibility letter. Processing times currently vary, so apply early.
Once TREC clears your file, you schedule your Pearson VUE broker exam. For the full experience-point math and every step in order, see How to Become a Texas Real Estate Broker.
Questions people ask before enrolling.
Not sure how your experience points line up?
Texas broker requirements shift with your active sales history — and changed for 2026, see what changed and why. See the full broker requirements and licensing steps guide, or call and let a real person audit your current TREC hours and map out your exact path. No pressure, no scripts.
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