Agents’ Representatives may be employed by a licensed estate agent in a sales, leasing, business broking or stock and station role.

This course is appropriate for:

• individuals seeking to start work in the Victorian property industry
• individuals currently registered as agents’ representatives under the superseded training package who wish to upgrade to a licence (completion of the CPP51119 Diploma of Property [Agency Management] is then also required).

Successful completion of this course (CPP41419 Certificate IV in Real Estate Practice) meets the educational requirements needed to work as an agent's representative in Victoria. Employers are required to verify that you are eligible to be an agent's representative, and notify the Business Licensing Authority (BLA) when you start work.

A formal qualification and transcript will be issued upon successful course completion.

This course requires completion of 18 units of competency:

1. CPPREP4001 Prepare for professional practice in real estate
2. CPPREP4002 Access and interpret ethical practice in real estate
3. CPPREP4003 Access and interpret legislation in real estate
4. CPPREP4004 Establish marketing and communication profiles in real estate
5. CPPREP4005 Prepare to work with real estate trust accounts
6. CPPREP4101 Appraise property for sale or lease
7. CPPREP4102 Market property
8. CPPREP4103 Establish vendor relationships
9. CPPREP4104 Establish buyer relationships
10. CPPREP4105 Sell property
11. CPPREP4121 Establish landlord relationships
12. CPPREP4122 Manage tenant relationships
13. CPPREP4123 Manage tenancy
14. CPPREP4124 End tenancy
15. CPPREP4125 Transact in trust accounts
16. Elective unit 1 - select a unit when adding course to cart
17. Elective unit 2 - select a unit when adding course to cart
18. Elective unit 3 - select a unit when adding course to cart

There are no entry requirements for enrolling in this course.

To apply for a licence with the Victorian government, all applicants must:

• be at least 18 years old;
• have completed a course prescribed under the Estate Agents (Education) Regulations 2020;
• not have been found guilty of any offence involving fraud, dishonesty, drug trafficking or violence punishable by three months or more imprisonment (whether or not a jail term was imposed), within the last 10 years;
• not be insolvent under administration;
• not be the cause of a successful claim against the Victorian Property Fund or a corresponding fund;
• not be a represented person under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986;
• not be subject to a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal declaration making you ineligible to act as an agent’s representative;
• not be subject to an order by any regulatory body in or outside Victoria, disqualifying you from acting as an agent’s representative.

The BLA may grant you permission to be employed as an agent’s representative if you are subject to some of the restrictions listed above (if you are insolvent, are the cause of a claim against the Victorian Property Fund, or have a disqualifying criminal record).

Assessment by the College is competency-based. Competence implies that an individual demonstrates an understanding of the knowledge that is the basis of the practical task being carried out (i.e. having the required skills to carry out a specific role).

Student assignments are assessed based on whether or not the student has achieved the performance criteria for each element specified in the unit/s of competency they are undertaking (put simply, if you meet all of the learning criteria for a particular unit, you are competent in that unit). This method of assessment judges performance against a prescribed standard, not against other students. Students are assessed as 'Competent' or 'Not Yet Competent'.

Assignment submissions are assessed within five business days of submission. If your assessor grades your work as ‘Not Yet Competent’, they will provide feedback on what else they need you to address in your assignment before they can assess you as ‘Competent’. The best part? We don’t charge any resubmission fees for assessing, so you can resubmit as many times as you need to before being graded as ‘Competent’.

Read more about competency-based assessment and assessing timeframes.

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