HI Real Estate

The Real Estate Commission, part of the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; licensing information is published at www.hawaii.gov/hirec. DCCA's Verify a Professional service confirms the active status and standing of a license. Use it before you rely on any claim made by a school, instructor, or licensee.

Expect Hawaii real estate law and Commission rules, agency and brokerage contracting, ownership interests and land use, financing, valuation and closing, and property management, condominiums and consumer protection. The Commission's committees on laws and rules, education, and condominium governance indicate where regulators concentrate attention. Confirm the current content outline with the Commission before building a study plan.

Prelicensing and continuing education are administered through the Commission's Education Review Committee, which reviews providers, courses, and instructors and maintains ratification lists. The specific hour requirements and approved course list for salesperson applicants are set by statute and rule. Verify the current requirement with the Commission at www.hawaii.gov/hirec before you pay a provider.

Those figures are set and published administratively, and the source material behind this page does not state them. Do not rely on a prep company's marketing number. Confirm the passing score, exam fee, and license fee directly with the Real Estate Commission at 335 Merchant Street, Room 333, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, before scheduling.

Retake rules, waiting periods, and any additional fees are set by the Commission and its administrative rules, not by the test center. The source material for this page states no retake limit. Ask the Commission or the exam vendor for the current policy in writing before your first attempt, so you can plan a second sitting if needed.

This page's source material does not describe exam delivery. Note that the Commission itself meets by virtual videoconference with phone-in access and posts attendee instructions, and its agendas have included remote proctoring statistics for education. Ask the vendor at registration whether test-center, remote-proctored, or both options are currently offered.

Yes, and it is free and unusually useful. Meetings are noticed on the State electronic calendar as required by HRS section 92-7(b), and written testimony must reach the Commission at least 24 hours before a meeting. Agendas show live issues such as course ratification, condominium governance, recovery and education fund budgets, and disciplinary settlements.

Start with Hawaii law and Commission governance, since agency, disclosure, and contract duties all rest on it. Then work through agency and contracts, ownership and land use, financing and closing, and finish with property management, condominiums, and consumer protection. Run timed mixed sets weekly; several short review sessions beat one long pass.

Memorizing national generalities while skipping Hawaii-specific statutes and rules, confusing a salesperson's duties with the principal broker's supervisory role, and treating condominium and property-management topics as afterthoughts. Another frequent error is misreading may versus must in statute questions, or never practicing under real time pressure before test day.