CPD for Real Estate Agents

Continual Professional Development has been legislated by the Property Practitioners Act and applies to all Principal and Non-Principal property practitioners.

As a candidate property practitioner, your time is taken up with your studies so that you can become a non-principal or full-status estate agent.  CPD applies to you the year following that in which you passed your Professional Designated Exam, set by the PPRA.

CPD Parameters

• Pay for your CPD by the 31^st March of each year
• Complete your CPD modules before the end of each year
• The PPRA banking detail and the cost of your annual CPD must be taken from the PPRA website.

Annual CPD Requirements for Property Practitioners

Each year, it is compulsory for all registered property practitioners to complete four Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules. These modules are accessible via the PPRA My Portal as part of their eLearning programme, which includes:

• A training manual
• An instructional video
• An online quiz

Practitioners may choose to complete their CPD modules through an external training provider instead of the PPRA. However, in such cases, you will be required to pay both the external provider’s fee and a fixed annual fee to the PPRA. This PPRA fee is outlined in the PPRA Schedule of Fees, which can be found on their official website.

How Do PPs Help?

As a principal practitioner, it is difficult to keep your eye on the ball when you have multiple qualified agents working for your agency. 

You will also find glitches on the PPRA platform, one of the major complaints being that agents cannot access their modules because their payment has not been allocated.

PPs manage all of this for you within their annual compliance management fee.

Acronyms

PPRA: Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority

CPD: Continual Professional Development

PPAct: Property Practitioners Act No 22 of 2019