LICENSE RENEWAL INFORMATION

GENERAL INFORMATION

• For information about your license, or anyone else’s license go to IDFPR License Lookup.
• IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY AND RENEW YOUR LICENSE WITH THE IDFPR. The IDFPR emails notices when the system is open for license renewals (the 90 days prior the expiration date).
• You have to be sponsored to renew your license. If you are not sponsored, get sponsored and renew your license at the same time otherwise there will be a delay in processing the renewal.
• Certificates and transcripts are NOT needed to renew. 
  • You DO NOT send them in with your renewal.
  • You DO NOT need the course completions to be reported to renew. The State does not verify this when you renew.
  • The state does audit at a later date to find those who lied on their renewal and did not complete some or all of their education requirements.
  • When the state audits the renewal, anyone who DID NOT complete their education requirements by the renewal date (some or all) will be required to complete it and pay a $500 fine.

REPORTING

• Your education completions are reported to the State of Illinois (IDFPR) and NOT to anyone else.
• All schools have until the 15th of the following month after the completion month to report the completion.
  • If you search the IDFPR CE Lookup and it is not there before 15th of the following month of when it was completed, check back after the 15th for verification.
  • If it is after the 15th of the month following the completion and not there, contact the school.
  • Once a license is renewed, the CE completions automatically go into history file. Click on “Show History” in the upper right hand corner of page to see them.

STATE PROCEDURES

• The State DOES NOT mail printed licenses.
  • A number of days after you renew, you will receive an email from the IDFPR with instructions on how to Download/Print Your License.
  • You must get the original license to your Sponsoring Broker and print and/or carry an electronic copy of the license with you.
• Renew by 4/30 otherwise on 5/1 it will cost $50 more.
  • DO NOT renew if you have NOT completed your education requirement. Late renewal is $50, getting audited and even if you finish it a couple days late is a fine of $500.
  • DO NOT conduct licensed activities if you do not renew. You can be disciplined for unlicensed practice.

EXPIRED LICENSE

• If you miss the 4/30 renewal deadline, do not worry. You have up to 5 years to reinstate/restore your license. To reinstate or restore an expired license requires completion of education courses, paying all the missed renewal fees, and a $50 reinstatement fee.
• The education requirements are:
  • Reinstatement of a Broker license (expired for less than 2 years) requires 12-Hour Core & Elective CE.
    • NOTE: If you let your license expire for your first renewal and did not complete the Broker Post-License course you must do the Broker Post-License education instead of the 12 hour Core & Elective CE.
    • To reinstate a Broker License use/submit this form 2020 Real Estate Broker Reinstatement Application 
  • Restoration of a Broker license (expired for more than 2 years but less than 5 years) requires 12-Hour Core & Elective CE  PLUS the Broker Post-License education. 
    • To restore a Broker license use/submit this form Restoration Application for LeasingAgent/Broker/Managing Broker 
  • Reinstatement of a Managing Broker license (expired for less than 2 years) requires 24-Hour Managing Broker CE (12 hours of core & elective CE PLUS the 12 hour Broker Management CE course).
    • To reinstate a Managing Broker license use/submit this form 2021 Real Estate Managing Broker Reinstatement Application 
  • Restoration of a Managing Broker license (expired for more than 2 years but less than 5 years) requires 24-Hour Managing Broker CE (12 hours of core & elective CE PLUS the 12 hour Broker Management CE course) PLUS the 45-Hour Managing Broker License course. 
    • To restore a Managing Broker license use/submit this form Restoration Application for LeasingAgent/Broker/Managing Broker 
• A license that is expired for more than 5 years CANNOT be reinstated or restored. To get a license again you need to start from the beginning as if you never had a license before with Broker Licensing

Return to the Broker Post-Licensing Page

Return to the Broker Continuing Education Page

Return to the Managing Broker Continuing Education Page