Online Appraisal CE Courses
New! Mandatory CE Requirement: Two hour fair housing course.
If you have already completed your 28 hours of appraisal CE and you are coming up for renewal, you will need an additional two hours of fair housing (or appraisal bias).
To complete the requirement, click on the link: 2 Hr. Virginia Fair Housing. The appraisal board will accept this course for satisfying the new requirement.
When completed, save the certificate of completion, and submit it to the Real Estate Appraiser Board.
In the future you will still complete 28 hours of continuing education, but part of the elective hours will now be two hours of fair housing.
In other words, your 28-hour CE requirement will be 7-Hour USPAP (mandatory); 2-Hour fair housing (mandatory); and 19 hours of elective topics.
| Credit Hours: 2 | Tuition: $25 | Enroll |
28-Hour Renewal Package (Includes 7-Hour USPAP)
| Credit Hours: 28 | Tuition: $575 | Enroll |
7-Hour National USPAP Update 2024
| Credit Hours: 7 | Tuition: $235 | Enroll |
Approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board of The Appraisal Foundation.
7-Hour National USPAP Update 2024-2025 Live Online
| Credit Hours: 7 | Tuition: $285 | Enroll |
Appraising Energy-Efficient and Green Homes
| Credit Hours: 3 | Tuition: $79 | Enroll |
This course provides three hours of continued education in energy-efficiency and green building that increasingly impacts modern appraisals. The course covers best practices for appraising energy efficient homes including terminology, building features, and credits. Topics include introductions to going green and sustainability, green energy labels, ratings, and certifications. Appraisal professionals will also learn how to valuate green and high-performance properties, incorporating energy-efficient data into an Appraisal report, and resources for green valuations. The course closes with an in-depth review of The Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum.
Appraisal Economics and Value
| Credit Hours: 7 | Tuition: $135 | Enroll |
Topics include economic trends, cycles, factors of value, and indicators along with the principles of real estate marketability. This course also dives into market, insurable, use, and investment value.
Reviewing Property Ownership and Real Estate Markets
| Credit Hours: 7 | Tuition: $135 | Enroll |
Topics include property ownership, interests, and rights, which dives into types of estates and forms of ownership along with property rights and public and private restrictions to ownership rights. This course also covers real estate markets and analysis including economic characteristics and analyzing supply and demand.
A Review of Appraisal Approaches and Techniques
| Credit Hours: 14 | Tuition: $269 | Enroll |
How to use the sales comparison approach, the cost approach, and the income approach. This course also dives into considerations for highest and best use, which gives appraisers techniques for deciding which approach should hold the most weight in an appraisal calculation. To wrap this course up, special and emerging appraisal techniques are also covered.
Reviewing Real Estate Title, Transfers, and Contracts
| Credit Hours: 5 | Tuition: $109 | Enroll |
The course also reviews and expands on contract types and requirements along with legal considerations. To wrap up the course, real estate leases are covered in depth with basics, types, elements of, and terminating a lease.
Characteristics Influencing Appraisals
| Credit Hours: 6 | Tuition: $115 | Enroll |
Topics include land and site characteristics and their valuations. This course also dives into architectural styles and construction types including site improvements, placement, styles, size, number, and storage. Location and neighborhood characteristics and factors influencing property values are also covered.
Appraisal Ethics and Valuation Bias
| Credit Hours: 3 | Tuition: $79 | Enroll |
Addresses highest and best use, which gives appraisers techniques for deciding which approach should hold the most weight in an appraisal calculation. Special and emerging appraisal techniques are also covered.
Reviewing Appraisal Valuation Procedures
| Credit Hours: 4 | Tuition: $105 | Enroll |
Topics include problem identification, scoping the work, and appraisal process along with collecting and selecting data for appraisal. Analyzing and organizing data; reviewing and reconciling final value opinions is also covered.
National Appraising for the Supervisor and Trainee
| Credit Hours: 4 | Tuition: $105 | Enroll |
Required course for the Trainee and Supervisor. National Appraising for the Supervisor and Trainee addresses the national topic areas for supervisory appraisers and trainee appraisers specified by the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) of The Appraisal Foundation in the 2015 Real Property Appraiser Qualifications Criteria. Other coursework discussing the similarities and differences of specific jurisdictional qualifying regulations may supplement this course.