The statistics here generally reflect the activities of the Real Estate Commission during the period from May 1, 2007 to April 30, 2008.
Contact
• 260,500 telephone calls
• 1.1 million+ website “hits”
Publications
• 1,100,000+ publications distributed to brokers, consumers, applicants
Technology
• 8,400+ student rosters electronically processed for CE courses and 749 for postlicensing courses
Licensing
• 562,000 license records changed (a 40% increase)
• 11,000+ applications processed for licenses by examination
• 10,000+ license examinations
administered
• 6,200+ licenses by examination issued
• 610 licenses issued by reciprocity
• 1,388 firm licenses issued
• 359 expired, surrendered and suspended licenses reinstated
• 3,800 Certificates of License History issued
• 383 license applications reviewed by Commission for character issues
• 171 license applicant conferences conducted
Education
• 15 new private real estate school licenses issued and 65 renewed
• 43 real estate instructors approved (a 19% increase) and 40 renewed
• 65 new continuing education elective courses approved (for a total of 406 courses)
• 21 new continuing education sponsors approved (for a total of 219)
• 19 new continuing education Update Course instructors approved (for a total of 187)
• 42 Broker-in-Charge Course sessions conducted for 2,415 licensees
Audits/Investigations
• 142 field investigations completed
• 98 trust accounts examined
• 443 persons interviewed
• 16 trust account sessions conducted for 316 students
• 2,415 students instructed for trust account portion of BIC course
Legal
• 1,361 case (complaint) files opened and 1,386 closed
• 26 licenses reprimanded
• 60 licenses suspended
• 38 licenses revoked
• 14 licenses surrendered
• 99 cases with conditional remedies
This article came from the October 2008-Vol39-2 edition of the bulletin.