The statistics here generally reflect the activities of the Real Estate Commission during the period from May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010.
Contact
• 200,656 telephone calls
• 1.5 million+ Web site “hits”
Publications
• 585,000+ publications distributed to brokers, consumers, applicants
Technology
• 8,554 student rosters electronically processed for CE courses and 859 for postlicensing courses
Licensing
• 466,081 license records changed
• 3,382 applications processed for licenses by examination
• 4,281+ license examinations administered
• 2,750 licenses issued by examination, 271 by reciprocity
• 879 firm licenses issued
• 334 expired, surrendered and suspended licenses reinstated
• 2,326 Certificates of License History issued
• 187 license applications reviewed for character issues
• 63 license applicant conferences conducted
Education
• 7 new private real estate school licenses issued and 48 renewed
• 18 real estate instructors approved and 49 renewed (for a total of 225 instructors)
• 56 new continuing education elective courses approved (for a total of 433 courses)
• 25 new continuing education sponsors approved (for a total of 236)
• 16 new continuing education Update Course instructors approved (for a total of 197)
• 40 Broker-in-Charge Course sessions conducted for 1,544 licensees
Audits/Investigations
• 128 field investigations completed
• 172 trust accounts examined
• 386 persons interviewed
• 6 trust account courses conducted for 147 students
• 1,352 students instructed for trust account portion of BIC course
Legal
• 954 case (complaint) files opened and 1,062 closed
• 15 licensees reprimanded
• 45 licenses suspended
• 45 licenses revoked
• 19 licenses surrendered
• 64 cases with conditional remedies
This article came from the October 2010-Vol41-2 edition of the bulletin.