28-Hr. DE Appraiser Complete Self-Paced CE Package

This 7-hour AQB CAP approved course meets the Valuation Bias and Fair Housing Laws and Regulations Outline from the Real Property Qualification Criteria for Continuing Education during the first CE cycle after January 1, 2026.

Join us for this engaging seven-hour course designed to refresh and reinforce your understanding of valuation bias and its impact on the real estate industry. As appraisal professionals, you'll explore how historical practices, legal frameworks, and modern regulations shape your work today. Through interactive inquiries, real-world case studies, and practical examples, we'll delve into key federal fair housing laws and effective strategies to recognize and prevent bias in appraisals.

This course offers an opportunity to deepen your expertise and stay current with the latest developments in housing policies. By participating, you'll enhance your ability to deliver appraisals that align with professional standards and promote fairness in the industry. Whether you're fulfilling continuing education requirements or looking to enrich your professional practice, we invite you to be part of this important conversation shaping the future of appraisal.

This asynchronous 7-Hour Equivalent USPAP Course is designed to strengthen an appraiser’s ability to apply USPAP with clarity, consistency, and professional judgment in today’s appraisal environment. The course begins by reinforcing the critical role of USPAP’s defined terminology, examining how precise language establishes a shared professional framework that governs scope of work decisions, assignment elements, and ethical obligations. By focusing on how USPAP distinguishes concepts such as client and intended user, impartiality and bias, and objectivity and independence, appraisers gain a stronger foundation for recognizing and avoiding common compliance pitfalls.

Building on this foundation, the course examines impartiality, bias, and ethical judgment as core components of credible appraisal practice. Learners explore how personal interests, preferences, and undisclosed information can affect objectivity, when disclosure is required under the ETHICS RULE, and how materiality influences whether a situation results in a USPAP violation. Emphasis is placed on applying ethical standards to real appraisal decisions, rather than treating ethics as abstract requirements.

The remainder of the course applies USPAP through a series of practical case studies that reflect modern appraisal challenges. These scenarios address client relationships and report control, data and documentation management, effective dates, workfile obligations, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, scope of work decisions, property rights, leases, and extraordinary assumptions. Throughout the course, appraisers use the 2024 USPAP and the 2026 USPAP® Guidance and Reference Manual, accessible within the course, to locate authoritative guidance, support defensible conclusions, and strengthen their ability to apply USPAP in complex, real-world assignments.

This course provides two hours of instruction in Delaware appraisal law, rules, and regulations, which satisfies a portion of the continued education needed for licensure in the state. Topics include Delaware application, licensing, and certification rules and continuing education requirements. Then the course dives into Delaware examination requirements and temporary practice and reciprocity. This course wraps up with the mass qualifications needed in Delaware, along with Delaware standards of appraisal practice, and complaints and hearing procedures in the state.

This course does not meet the 2026 Real Property Qualification Criteria (Criteria) required education on valuation bias and fair housing laws and regulations.

This course provides three hours of continued education in energy-efficiency and green building that increasingly impacts modern appraisals. The course covers best practices for appraising energy efficient homes including terminology, building features, and credits. Topics include introductions to going green and sustainability, green energy labels, ratings, and certifications. Appraisal professionals will also learn how to valuate green and high-performance properties, incorporating energy-efficient data into an Appraisal report, and resources for green valuations. The course closes with an in-depth review of The Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum.

This course provides four hours of continued education in Appraisal Technology and GSE Appraisal Review. In this course we will explore the relationship between Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) and their review of ethical and legal standards and emerging technology. The review of appraisals can be a significant part of an appraisal business and understanding what technological tools are available to you and your professional limits will help make the process less daunting.

Topics include appraisal review for GSEs like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and integrating multiple appraisal approaches for valuing complex properties. You’ll learn how to use emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and data analytics, to improve the appraisal review process. This includes re-evaluating appraisals for accuracy and fairness, ensuring compliance with GSE standards, and addressing potential biases. A significant portion also covers the legal, ethical, and professional standards in the appraisal industry as they relate to the review process and technology use. Altogether, this course equips you with the tools to conduct thorough and unbiased appraisal reviews.

This course provides 5 hours of continued education instruction in reviewing real estate title, transfers, and contracts. Topics include titles, deeds and transfer of title. The course also reviews and expands on contract types and requirements along with legal considerations. To wrap up the course, real estate leases are covered in depth with basics, types, elements of, and terminating a lease all discussed.