SINGAPORE — The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) has refined its training guidelines for real estate professionals, by introducing a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Training Roadmap which will categorise courses to suit each person’s level of expertise.

Under the existing CPD scheme, real estate personnel need to clock in six credit hours of mandatory training a year to renew their licence and registration. The training must consist of at least three credit hours of core subjects.

Under the new training framework, core CPD courses are grouped into three categories — professional ethics, Estate Agents Act and Regulations; law and government policies related to estate agency work; and practice-related knowledge and issues.

The courses in each category are pegged at three levels of expertise to match the needs of salespersons of different experience levels. Beginning this month, Key Executive Officers and salespersons have to attend at least one core CPD course under each of the three categories over three CPD cycles. Each cycle spans one year, from Oct 1 in the current year to Sept 30 in the following year.

Mr Chan Mun Kit, CEA’s Director for Regulatory Control, said yesterday: “We felt that more had to be done to address the diverse learning needs of the industry and encourage a culture of constant learning.” CHANNEL NEWSASIA