The process for estate agents to qualify and register as real estate practitioners is a multi-tiered and somewhat complicated process that has had to be followed in order to reach the final goal.
Evans says the next EAAB PDE exam date is on Thursday, 12 November.This is according to Annette Evans, regional general manager of the Institute of Estate Agents, Western Cape, who says for estate agents to register for their Professional Designation Exam (PDE) qualification, they first need to be found competent by their training service provider.
Once this is done, she says they have to receive confirmation of competence from the Services Sector Education Training Authority (SSETA), and will then receive clearance from the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) that they are registered and qualified to write the final exam.
However, what is happening is that it is taking up to two years in some cases for SSETA to issue competency certificates, and the EAAB has stepped in to provide an intermediary solution: they will now accept a letter of confirmation instead of a certificate.
Evans says in order to streamline the exam application process, the EAAB now accepts a letter from the training provider confirming that SSETA found the person to be competent, so they no longer have to delay waiting for the SSETA certificate before they can write the exam, as was the case in the past. The next EAAB PDE exam date is on Thursday, 12 November.
The deadline for next year’s Fidelity Fund Certificate registration is looming, and Evans says those who are practising as agents should email the necessary proof of registration with a registered training provider as soon as possible.
Letters should be sent via email by 30 October as this is the cut-off date for registration for a 2016 Fidelity Fund Certificate, says Evans.
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