Brokerage and fair housing practice test

What this area asks

The day-job area: what a broker may and may not do, the four listing agreements and how they differ in who earns the commission, property management agreements, and the two subjects that generate real liability — fair housing and risk management. Fair housing items are rarely about the list of protected classes on its own. They are about conduct: steering, blockbusting, and advertising that describes the buyer instead of the property.

The topic list above is taken from the exam’s own published content outline, where this area appears as Real estate practice.

Frequently asked

How many brokerage and fair housing questions are on the real estate exam?

10 of the 80 scored items on the national portion — about 13% of it. The published content outline calls this area "Real estate practice".

Is there a passing score for the real estate exam?

Not a national one. Each state commission sets its own, and states express it differently — Texas publishes a raw number of correct answers, California a percentage of the whole exam.

Is this the official exam?

No. These are original practice questions written for study, built to the exam’s published content outline. The exams themselves are delivered by Pearson VUE and PSI under contract to state commissions.

The other content areas

Each one draws only from its own bank, so a weak area can be worked until it is not one. The number beside each is how many of the exam’s 80 scored items it carries.