Your hours depend on every area of practice you work in. NSW runs a financial-year cycle built on compulsory topics. From 2026-27 you complete the topics for each licence category you hold and each area of practice you work in, so your total depends on your combination. Class 1 agents add a Fair Trading accredited forum.
Start with the big pieces, then check the regulator for the details attached to your exact authority.
Within a real estate licence there are six areas: residential sales, residential property management, buyers agency, commercial, business broking, and onsite (short-term) residential property management. You complete the compulsory topics for every area you actually work in — and none for an area your licence authorises but you do not work. Strata managing agent and stock and station are separate licence categories, each with a single area.
Seven hours each across four compulsory topics. Residential sales covers auction laws and practice, contracts, a Rules of Conduct refresher, and supervision guidelines and AML/CTF in agency practice. Buyers agency swaps the Rules of Conduct refresher for marketing services, scope of practice and licensing obligations. Commercial covers fire safety regulations, GST in commercial property transactions, the Rules of Conduct refresher and supervision/AML-CTF.
Residential property managers complete 7 hours across three topics: repairs, maintenance and habitability; residential tenancy reforms and common mistakes; and domestic and family violence, which must run for at least 4 of those hours with a provider approved to deliver it. Business brokers complete 7 hours across relationships and negotiation, ethical practice for business brokers, and supervision/AML-CTF. Onsite and short-term residential property managers complete 4 hours across conflict resolution, managing relationships and regulatory change in strata.
Strata managing agents complete 6 hours (up from 4) across regulatory change in strata, repairs and maintenance, and roles, authority and risk — the old mandatory online strata module is no longer required. Stock and station agents complete 7 hours (up from 1) across auction laws and practice, contracts, safety risk management and supervision/AML-CTF.
Class 1 holders attend a 5-hour NSW Fair Trading accredited forum relevant to their licence category, on top of their core hours — dual licence holders attend only one forum for the year. Those working in residential sales, buyers agency, commercial, business broking or stock and station must also complete AUSTRAC’s “Smart real estate agent’s guide to AML/CTF”, which sits outside the approved provider framework.
Certificate of registration holders complete at least 3 units each CPD year from a valid Certificate IV for real estate, strata management or stock and station, and may choose any units from that qualification. Extra units carry forward — assistant agents are the only holders CPD carries over for. A stock and station assistant agent restricted to livestock sales only has no CPD requirement.
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