GRI Certification
By completing all of the classes of the REALTOR® Institute,
a student is awarded the nationally recognized Graduate
REALTOR® Institute (GRI) designation. With over 96 classroom
hours of real estate instruction with emphasis on topics
such as legal liabilities, tax planning, construction and
new home sales, and specialized areas such as appraisal,
financing real estate investments, and property management,
the designation is awarded exclusively to REALTORS®.
On a national level, only 11% of the REALTORS® hold
this prestigious designation.
The REALTOR® Institute is co-sponsored
by the North Carolina Real Estate Educational Foundation
and the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® and
has been offered several times annually since 1948. It was
the first of it's kind in the United States and has served
as a model for numerous other states.
CRS
Certification
The Certified Residential Specialist, or CRS designation,
is awarded to residential real estate associates who have
by special training and education and by actual sales achievement,
met the highest standards of performance within the real
estate industry. GRI designation is a prerequisite requirement
for CRS. Those having the coveted CRS designation are in
a position to provide those seeking to buy or sell residential
real estate with the assurance of the most professional
real estate services. Less than 3% of REALTORS® nationwide
hold this designation.
ABR
Certification
The Accredited Buyers Representative, or ABR designation,
the benchmark of excellence in buyer agency service, demonstrates
to clients that the agent has taken steps to continue their
education in the field of buyer representation and has the
proven experience and training to deliver ethical and professional
service to real estate buyers. More than 10,000 real estate
professionals in North America have earned the ABR designation.
CRP
Certification
The purpose of the Certified Relocation Professional certification
is to encourage members working in specific aspects of employee
relocation to gain extensive and useful knowledge of all
realms of employee relocation. A major purpose of this program
is the achievement of a common and universal understanding
of the entire employee relocation field and to recognize
those professionals who demonstrate mastery.In order to
receive the CRP designation, an individual must meet certain
eligibility requirements and pass a comprehensive exam on
all aspects of the employee relocation field. To maintain
the designation, an individual must earn 30 relocation related
continuing education credits every three years. The areas
that are tested are: Relocation Appraising, Residential
Real Estate, Corporate Relocation Policies & Issues,
Relocation Tax and Legal Issues, and Family Relocation Issues.
e-PRO
Certification
An e-PRO is a REALTOR® who has successfully
completed the e-PRO training program for real estate professionals.
Endorsed by the National Association of REALTORS®, the
e-PRO course teaches professionals the nuts and bolts of
working with real estate on-line: Web sites, e-mail, on-line
tools, and most of all, what today's consumer really wants.
ABRM
Certification
ABRM – Accredited Buyer Representative
Manager is geared to real estate firm brokers, owners and
managers that have or wish to incorporate buyer representation
into their daily practice, designees have taken and passed
both the ABR® and ABRM course and provided documentation
of past management experience.The ABRM designation is awarded
real estate practitioners who complete a comprehensive two-day
REBAC ABR® course in buyer representation and passing
or challenging the written examination, complete the comprehensive
one-day REBAC ABRM course in buyer representation, successfully
passing the written examination, certification that the
broker/owner/manager has overseen a minimum of 25 real estate
transactions that involved a buyer agent or had more than
2 years of experience in the oversight of buyer representatives
and be a member in good standing with the National Association
of REALTORS® and the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council.
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