Continuing Education, Renewing your License and other Requirements
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For the complete countdown for ALL your 2026 deadlines along with the links for ANYTHING you need!
DON'T FORGET! 2025-2027 NAR Code of Ethics Requirement
When you complete your 18 hours of Continuing Education, please email Cheryl cdreger@ranw.org the following class certificates to satisfy the 2025-2027 NAR Code of Ethics requirement:
- Course 1: Buyer Agency In Wisconsin*
- Course 3: When the Wisconsin Transaction Does Not Close*
- Course 4: Department of Safety and Professional Services Discipline Roundup*
- Course 7: Inspection and Testing in the Wisconsin Offers to Purchase*
- Course 8: Antitrust for Wisconsin Licensees*
- Course 11: Advertising for Wisconsin Licensees*
Continuing Education: Future You Will Thank You
It is June, which means summer is here, the market is moving, and someone somewhere is already saying, “I’ll get my CE done later.” Let’s not be that someone.
2026 is a Wisconsin real estate license renewal year, which means REALTORS® need to complete 18 hours of approved Continuing Education before the December 14, 2026 deadline. That includes 12 hours of mandatory courses and 6 hours of electives. Yes, December sounds far away. But so did your last closing deadline before the appraisal came in, the buyer asked for one more showing, the seller couldn’t find the garage remote, and everyone suddenly remembered they were leaving town.
Continuing Education is one of those things that is much easier to handle before it becomes urgent. Nobody wants to spend December digging through emails, hunting for certificates, or trying to remember whether “I watched that webinar” actually counted for CE credit. That is not holiday cheer. That is professional cardio.
The good news is that CE is not just a box to check. The 2025–2026 course topics are practical and timely, covering things like buyer agency, contracts, failed transactions, DSPS discipline, inspections, antitrust, advertising, financing, appraisals, disclosures, fair housing, and more. In other words, it is the kind of information that helps us do our jobs better, protect our clients, and avoid learning important lessons the hard way.
RANW has education resources available on the website, including links to WRA, NAR, MLS training, vendor webinars, and other professional development opportunities. Just remember: not every training automatically counts toward Wisconsin CE, so be sure you are completing approved CE courses when working toward license renewal.
One more important reminder: finishing your CE does not automatically renew your license.
After your CE is complete, you still need to renew through DSPS. CE is step one. License renewal is step two. Skipping step two is like writing a great offer and forgetting to send it.
Also, once your CE is complete, please make sure to save your certificates. For courses that satisfy the NAR Code of Ethics requirement, RANW asks that you email the appropriate certificates to Cheryl at cdreger@ranw.org. Your future self, your broker, and Cheryl’s inbox will all appreciate clear file names that do not include “final-final-actually-final.pdf.”
So here is the June challenge: do not wait until the last minute. Pick your courses, block the time, get them done, save the certificates, and renew your license well before the deadline.
CE may not be the most glamorous part of real estate, but neither is crawling into a basement during an inspection, and we still know it matters.
Get it done early. Stay sharp. Stay licensed. Enjoy December without a CE panic spiral.
Check out the Communications Committee video on why CE is so important! It's hilarious and worth the watch!