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Commercial real estate brokers today must continually learn about new technologies, laws and real estate uses and more, often by law.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on February 10, 2012

One of the great misconceptions, I think, about real estate brokerage is that it entails nothing more than hashing out a deal, shaking hands, and going on to the next without a backward glance: Lather, rinse, repeat to infinity (or retirement).

There’s a lot more to it than that, particularly as the industry adapts to new technologies, laws and real estate uses. Brokers today must continually learn about all of those and more, often by law. In fact, the New Jersey Real Estate Commission requires all brokers, salespersons or broker-salespersons to complete 12 hours of continuing education by July 1, 2013 to renew or reinstate their licenses. The question is how to get that education amid all that deal-making.

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