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Code of Ethics & Fair Housing Requirement

Cycle 8   (Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2027)

All REALTORS® are required to complete their NAR-required Cycle 8 Code of Ethics & Fair Housing course by Dec. 31, 2027.

Code of Ethics Training

NAR's Board of Directors approved a change to the Code of Ethics training requirement, extending it from every two years to every three years. NAR Code of Ethics Cycle 8 began on January 1, 2025, and ends on December 31, 2027.

REALTORS® are required to complete ethics training of not less than two hours and 30 minutes of instructional time. The Ethics training requirement for this current cycle can be met by taking the course through any REALTORS® Association, PEAK Online, the CE Shop, 360, Cox Education, or VanEd. Certificates received from any other source will not be honored. Read the consequences for failing to complete Code of Ethics training.

Take an online CoE training through NAR.

Have questions? View Code of Ethics Frequently Asked Questions here.

Not sure if you've already completed this requirement? Check your Code of Ethics status with NAR here.

C2EX Endorsement for Existing Members (Free*)

Complete NAR’s Commitment to Excellence (C2EX) - it is also a Code of Ethics Training Equivalency.

 

Fair Housing Training

The Fair Housing three-year cycle coincides with NAR’s existing Code of Ethics training requirement and begins in 2025.

NAR's Fair Housing Action Plan: ACT! aims to ensure REALTORS® are doing everything possible to protect housing rights in America, with an emphasis on accountability, culture change, and training. Courses satisfying the new NAR requirement are:

  • At Home With Diversity, a course to help real estate professionals work successfully in an increasingly diverse marketplace
  • Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing, a course to help real estate professionals identify and interrupt stereotypical thinking to avoid fair housing pitfalls
  • Qualified equivalent courses provided by state and local associations, institutes, societies and councils, and their partnered providers
  • Qualified equivalent fair housing courses approved by state licensing authorities for an existing state fair housing requirement
  • A to-be-created non-residential practitioner course focused on bias and anti-discrimination training

Fairhaven, NAR’s online fair housing simulation, will also be updated to meet the stated learning objectives and two-hour minimum time frame so that it can be included in the list of qualifying courses and serve as the no-cost option.

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