{"id":4057,"date":"2023-11-10T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2023-11-10T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:37:10","slug":"training-requirement-for-property-agents-to-renew-license-to-be-raise-from-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/en\/training-requirement-for-property-agents-to-renew-license-to-be-raise-from-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR PROPERTY AGENTS TO RENEW LICENSE TO BE RAISE FROM OCTOBER 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"node-header\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Property agents will have to meet a higher training requirement to renew their licences from October 2025, in a move by the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) to raise professional standards in the industry.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4054\" style=\"width: 1722px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4054\" src=\"https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45.png\" alt=\"ARCADIA CONSULTING VIETNAM - Training requirement for property agents to renew licence to be raised from October 2025\" width=\"1722\" height=\"1148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45.png 1722w, https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45-1000x667.png 1000w, https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/arcadiaconsult.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-10-at-19.33.45-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1722px) 100vw, 1722px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ARCADIA CONSULTING VIETNAM &#8211; Training requirement for property agents to renew licence to be raised from October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">They will have to clock 16 hours of training a year, up from the six to nine hours currently required for agents to renew their licence each year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Announcing the new requirement on Friday, Second Minister for National Development Indranee Rajah said it will ensure agents do not get left behind as trends and circumstances change, and that they are \u201cfully plugged into all that is happening\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"media-group\">\n<div class=\"media-entity\">\n<div class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-image-with-caption ds-1col clearfix\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Of the 16 hours, agents will have to log 12 hours under a structured learning component which includes courses in areas such as laws and regulations, property markets and other related real estate knowledge.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">To allow agents to pick up new generic skills, they can take courses in areas such as customer service and digital market under the self-directed learning component to fulfil the remaining four hours of training.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The CEA will review the 16-hour requirement after a few years, with the target of raising it to 24 training hours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The new requirement is one of eight measures that will be put in place by 2025, to ensure property agents provide more professional service to consumers, CEA said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In a speech at the Singapore Real Estate Agents Conference held at the HDB Hub in Toa Payoh, Ms Indranee said the measures are meant to raise the professionalism of the real estate industry and prepare it for the future.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The other goals are to improve the quality of training for property agents, and promote a continuous learning mindset among them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ms Indranee said the CEA will also tighten the accreditation criteria and design requirements for training courses, and adopt a more rigorous audit framework for training providers to \u201censure a consistently high level of quality\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The new measures to raise industry standards stem from recommendations made by a workgroup that conducted a 17-month study to review and improve the training ecosystem for the real estate sector.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">There are 34,427 property agents here as at Jan 1, 2023, up from 30,399 in 2021, based on CEA figures.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr Adam Wang, 46, president of the Singapore Estates Agent Association, said he felt agents will take the increase in training hours positively, as they will get to upskill and gain more knowledge.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He reckons property agents will be open to a further increase in training hours from 16 to 24, as there has been a shift in mindsets among agents, who want to show the public their professionalism and ability to provide valuable advice.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">He added that the higher training requirements will take effect only in October 2025 to give training centres more time to prepare and revamp their course materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a 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