20-Hr. AK 2026-2028 CE Package for REALTORS

As a real estate professional, you already know that advertising your properties and your business is a must for success. But successful advertising is more than just using an MLS, running an ad in your local real estate publication, or posting an update on Facebook. There are numerous state and federal laws to which you must adhere. There are target markets to gauge and understand. There's an assortment of different advertising methods from which to choose. And there's a mastery of language to leverage to ensure that your listing descriptions and advertisements get noticed for their creativity instead of their puffery.

Today's real estate marketing also extends across a growing range of social media platforms. Each platform has its own audience, best practices, and compliance considerations. And increasingly, AI tools are shaping how licensees write listing descriptions, enhance photos, target ads, and communicate with clients. These tools offer real advantages, but they also introduce new ways to trigger existing violations. Knowing how to use them responsibly is now part of what it means to advertise ethically and protect your license.

This two-hour mandatory course fulfills Alaska’s 2026-2028 DCE requirement for the topic of Advertising, Social Media, and AI Compliance.

Course highlights include:

• Avoiding discrimination in advertising
• Misrepresentation vs. Puffery
• Legalities of online advertising
• Social media advertising: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor
• Marketing on Instagram and YouTube
• AI in real estate
• Regulatory and legality requirements of AI usage
• AI in marketing and advertising
• Detecting AI-generated content

Step beyond the basics of market knowledge and negotiation—discover what truly sets exceptional brokers apart. This engaging course goes beyond the transactional, focusing on the daily decisions and supervisory strategies that protect your license, your reputation, and your business. Dive into best practices for oversight, communication, and conflict resolution, and gain practical skills you can apply whether managing policies, overseeing branch and home offices, or supervising remote teams.

Through real-world scenarios and actionable insights, you'll learn how to identify and resolve disputes before they escalate, and how your supervision directly shapes compliance, professionalism, and successful outcomes for clients and licensees alike. Elevate your leadership, enhance your brokerage’s integrity, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth, securing your expertise in broker supervision and conflict resolution!

This two-hour mandatory course fulfills Alaska’s 2026-2028 DCE requirement for the topic of Broker Supervision and Conflict Resolution.

Course highlights include:

• Broker supervision requirements
• Broker responsibility for policies and procedures
• Real estate teams
• Client confidentiality and recordkeeping responsibilities
• Home and branch office supervision
• Foundations of conflict resolutions
• Resolving commission disputes
• Handling ethics complaints

Alaska continues to experience significant financial and property-related fraud, with residents reporting more than $26 million in losses in a single year. Real estate transactions are prime targets for fraud schemes, including intercepted wire instructions, impersonation of sellers, and the exploitation of vacant or out-of-state owned properties to unlawfully transfer funds or ownership.

Because real estate licensees operate at critical points in these transactions, they are uniquely positioned to recognize warning signs before fraud occurs. Licensees who understand Alaska’s fraud patterns and state-specific procedures are better equipped to protect clients, reduce financial losses, and maintain the integrity of real estate transactions across the state.

This course focuses on wire fraud and deed/title fraud as they occur in Alaska real estate transactions, emphasizing practical prevention strategies, red flag recognition, and the licensee’s role in safeguarding consumers.

This two-hour mandatory course fulfills Alaska’s 2026-2028 DCE requirement for the topic of Fraud Prevention: Wire Fraud and Deed Fraud.

Course highlights include:

• Wire fraud awareness and prevention
• Cyberfraud review
• Deed fraud fundamentals
• Role of industry professionals in fraud
• Red flags of deed fraud
• Preventing deed and title fraud
• Alaska case studies

One of the most important aspects of real estate is the relationships between the parties involved and the corresponding obligations that come with those relationships. Real estate professionals must clearly understand the different types of relationships between them and consumers. The Alaska Real Estate Commission Consumer Disclosure includes guidelines to help licensees understand their obligations and protect them and the consumers they work with.

In Alaska, real estate professionals are expected to uphold high ethical standards and maintain a professional demeanor. One of the areas where ethics and professionalism come into play is through disclosure. Licensees must be transparent and forthcoming in their dealings with clients, customers, and other brokers. Licensees can build trust and credibility by maintaining high ethical standards and conducting themselves professionally, leading to long-term career success.

This two-hour mandatory course fulfills Alaska’s 2026-2028 DCE requirement for the topic of Required Licensee Disclosures.

Course highlights include:

• Specific assistance
• Representation review
• Designated licensee relationships
• Neutral licensees
• Alaska Real Estate Commission Consumer Disclosure
• Handling ethical negotiations
• Disclosing conflict of interest
• Compensation disclosure
• Advertising prohibitions and required disclosures
• Loyalty and self-dealing

In this course, you’ll learn about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact in order to better understand why fair housing laws are necessary. You’ll review the federal laws that provide protection against housing discrimination and what actions are prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate. This will include reviewing the personal characteristics—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability--that federal law protects from discrimination in housing. Besides these federal protections, there are state and local government fair housing laws that protect additional personal characteristics from discrimination in housing and you’ll find out where to get more fair housing information for your clients.

You’ll also learn some best practices for fair housing marketing and some strategies to avoid steering and making assumptions based on stereotypes. You’ll role play some scenarios to practice interrupting any implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. By allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in, you can do your part to uphold fair housing laws and end housing discrimination.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

Chances are good that, if it hasn't happened yet, you will one day work on a transaction involves a property that’s part of a tax-deferred exchange. When this happens, will you be ready to guide your client through the process and ensure they meet the critical deadlines?

With an appropriately formed exchange, an investor can defer paying taxes on the profit from one investment and instead use all of the profits to fund another investment. 

This course helps licensees become more comfortable with guiding clients through a 1031 tax-deferred exchange transaction and ensuring critical deadlines are understood and met.  

Course highlights include:

• Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange definitions
• Starker’s Exchange background and application
• U.S. Internal Revenue Code requirements
• IRS Safe Harbor Guidelines
• Investor taxes advantages
• Setting up an exchange
• Selecting a Qualified Intermediary
• Licensee role in a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange
• The non-exchanger's role in a Section 1031 transaction
• Reverse exchanges
• Rare exemptions to exchange deadlines

While conducting real estate business, have you encountered a situation in which you weren’t sure what the proper course of action was? What the right thing to do might be? Or maybe you’ve heard your colleagues’ stories and got that uncomfortable, itchy feeling that an action they took wasn’t quite on the up and up.

Let’s look at an uncomfortable truth: real estate agents have a small tarnished image problem. With every transaction being unique, real estate licensees often face ethical gray areas. Some real estate professionals simply don’t understand how to handle complex issues in the most ethical manner, and others bend the rules if they think it’ll keep a transaction on track or a commission in their bank account and not a competitor’s.

Aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle, this three-hour course helps licensees deepen their knowledge—and practice—of ethical rules of conduct according to the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice. The code isn’t applicable to REALTORS® only, who are duty-bound to uphold the code as a privilege of membership. The code’s guidance serves anyone possessing a real estate license, and licensees who heed the code’s various articles and standards of practice can do the greatest good of all: protecting consumers while also bolstering the reputation of all the industry’s professionals.

Course highlights include:

• Laws vs. morals vs. ethics
• Top articles of the code involved in the most complaints (plus a few more)
• A candid look at the industry’s image problem
• Common ethical dilemmas and using the code to solve them
• Foundation and enforcement of the code
• Competency in real estate practice as a matter of ethics
• Steering clear of procuring cause disputes
• Ethics concerns with technology and social media
• Tips and best practices to keep your reputation polished to a high shine

*This course was designed by us to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

Real estate wholesaling is not a new concept. However, the practice, regulation, and public perception of wholesaling have changed significantly in recent years. For real estate professionals navigating a market where wholesaling is becoming more popular and increasingly problematic, understanding its legal, ethical, and professional implications is more important than ever.

This three-hour course provides a straightforward examination of wholesaling: how it operates, when it crosses legal and ethical boundaries, and why it faces greater scrutiny from lawmakers and the public. You’ll examine how some investors use wholesaling as a legitimate and transparent strategy to build wealth, while others exploit it to bypass licensing requirements, mislead sellers and buyers, and disrupt housing stability, particularly in vulnerable communities.

Whether you are new to wholesaling, advising clients involved, or simply looking to avoid legal issues, this course is designed for you.

Course highlights include:

• Foundational principles of wholesaling
• Strategic uses of wholesaling
• State laws and licensing implications of wholesaling
• Red flags to indicate predatory wholesaling practices
• When wholesaling becomes illegal
• Ethical wholesaling
• Collateral damage of wholesaling
• Legal and civil penalties
• Effects of predatory wholesaling on housing market
• Real-world cases, interactive scenarios, and activities to understand wholesaling in your real estate practice