Continuing education is required for active license renewals. Brokers, principal brokers and property managers must complete 30 hours of continuing education every two years. Continuing education must be taken from certified continuing education providers.

The Agency no longer accepts most paper forms. Most business is conducted online using eLicense.

A few forms still used are available by selecting the Forms and Publication link below.

You can also read and subscribe to the Agency's Oregon Real Estate News-Journal, and other electronic publications.

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) chapter 696 and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) chapter 863 are the laws and rules that govern your real estate license.

Check the status of a licensee or find the contact information for a registered business name (a real estate business) in eLicense, the Agency's online license management system.

You can inactivate your broker, principal broker or property manager license if you want to temporarily put a hold on your professional real estate activity. An inactive license renewal fee is $110, and no continuing education is required. Maintaining your license on inactive status allows you to continue to have access to your license and activate it without having to "start over" with pre-license education, license exam, and background check requirements.

When you are ready to reactivate your license, you need to complete your continuing education. Then you login to eLicense to reactivate and pay the required fee. If you have been inactive for a more than two consecutive years, you must also take and pass the 48-question reactivation exam.

An inactive licensee cannot conduct professional real estate activity, including referrals. Doing professional real estate activity while inactive is considered unlicensed activity and subject to possible civil penalties. Professional real estate activity is defined in ORS 696.010.

The current recession has reduced state revenues, and has forced the legislature to make deep cuts in agency budgets. Coping with these cuts requires us to close our office on certain days in addition to normal holidays.

The Oregon Real Estate Agency's slide presentation given at the Oregon Association of Realtors-sponsored event on October 11, 2011, is now available.

These questions and answers represent a majority of the specific issues contained in the questions that were collected at the Foreclosure Fraud Symposium held in March 2010. The answers represent a collaborative effort between the Oregon Real Estate Agency, the Oregon Department of Justice, and the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.

A "condominium" is a special form of property ownership which is created and governed in Oregon by statute (ORS 100.005 to 100.910 and 100.990), known as the "Oregon Condominium Act."