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Wed - Aug 19 | Free CCAR IDX Website - Turn Your Membership Into Leads

Virtual | 10:00 – 11:00 am | FREE | Discover how to make the most of your free CCAR IDX website. Learn how to showcase listings from 7 MLSs across 27 counties, attract more buyers and sellers with an SEO-optimized website, manage leads with a built-in CRM, and grow your business using integrated email and social media marketing tools. This class will show you how to strengthen your online presence, streamline your workflow, and convert more prospects into clients. | MORE + REGISTER >

Mon - Aug 24 | AI Essentials for Realtors: Practical Tools to Streamline Your Business

Virtual | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | $30/$60 | Learn practical AI workflows designed by an active real estate professional to help you work faster and smarter. This webinar covers using AI to create authentic listing copy, market reports, client communications, and compelling listing presentations, while also showing you how to evaluate which AI tools are truly worth your time. You’ll leave with real-world, immediately applicable strategies—not just theory. | MORE + REGISTER >

Wed- Aug 26 | Meet AEO & GEO, The New SEO

Virtual | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | FREE | Learn how to optimize your online presence for AI-powered search tools through Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). This webinar explores how buyers and sellers are using AI instead of traditional search engines and teaches practical strategies to help AI platforms recognize and recommend you as the local real estate expert, increasing your visibility and attracting more clients. | MORE + REGISTER >

BROKERS & OFFICE MANAGERS

Fri - Aug 21 | C.A.R. Industry Townhall for Brokers & Managers

Virtual | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | FREE | The California Association of REALTORS® hosts Industry Leader Town Halls twice a month to provide brokers and key brokerage staff to meet virtually with C.A.R. Leadership, C.A.R. staff and brokers throughout the state to discuss the latest information impacting real estate brokerages and transactions. Rotating list of guest speakers provides updates on the latest issues including transactional, legal, market and legislative issues. | MORE + REGISTER >

Wed - Aug 26 | NAR Broker Power Hour

Virtual | 10:00 – 11:00 am | FREE | Learn how to protect clients and transactions from increasingly sophisticated real estate fraud. This session covers emerging fraud threats, best practices for reducing risk, tools to help agents prevent scams, and ways your brokerage can support disaster recovery through the REALTORS® Relief Foundation. | MORE + REGISTER >

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Wed - Aug 26 | CBA's Negotiating Commercial Leases

Virtual | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm | $5 | Strengthen your commercial leasing skills by learning how to negotiate lease terms that satisfy both landlords and tenants. This course reviews more than 35 key lease provisions, explores each party’s perspective, and provides practical strategies for successful negotiations, including how to avoid common lease renewal mistakes. | MORE + REGISTER >

CMAs

Tue - Aug 18 | Stand Out with Market Trends from RPR

Virtual | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | FREE | Learn how to use RPR Market Trends to interpret and share local housing market data with confidence. This class covers key metrics—including inventory, median sold price, days on market, sold-to-list price, and active, pending, and sold listings—to help you position yourself as the local market expert. You’ll also learn how to incorporate charts and graphs into client reports and social media to educate consumers and showcase your market knowledge. impressive CMA reports, analyze comps, prospect neighborhoods, and use RPR Mobile to support your business on the go. | MORE + REGISTER >

Thu - Aug 27 | Core Skills Training - Intro to Cloud CMA

Virtual | 2:00 – 4:00 pm | FREE | Learn how to create professional CMA reports, property flyers, and buyer tour packets with Cloud CMA. This class also covers lead generation tools, virtual listing presentations, and strategies to help you demonstrate your value and win more listings. | MORE + REGISTER >

FORMS / REPORTS

Thu - Aug 20 | Residential Listing Agreement (RLA)

Virtual | 10:00 am – 12:30 pm | $29 | Master the Residential Listing Agreement (RLA) and avoid common listing mistakes that can impact your business. This course provides a step-by-step review of the RLA, explains the different types of listing agreements, covers agency, mediation, arbitration, deposit handling requirements, and Clear Cooperation rules, and identifies resources for getting additional guidance. | MORE + REGISTER >

Thu - Aug 27 | RPR's Dynamic Client Reports: Fast, Smart, Customizable

Virtual | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | FREE | Learn how to create professional, customized RPR Reports that showcase your expertise and deliver valuable insights to clients. This class covers using prebuilt and custom report templates, personalizing reports with custom pages, sharing them across multiple channels, and leveraging dynamic links to keep information current while enhancing your prospecting and client presentations. | MORE + REGISTER >

FINANCING & MORTGAGE

Thu - Aug 20 | Mortgage: The Truth Behind the Headlines

Virtual | 10:00 – 11:00 am | FREE | Join Padi Goodspeed once a month to learn the truth behind the headlines and interpret the news in a way that matters most, for you and your clients! | MORE + REGISTER >

LICENSE RENEWAL

Fri - Aug 21 | DRE License Renewal Crash Course

Virtual | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm | $85 | Renew your real estate license quickly and confidently with this fast-paced review course. Covering required DRE updates and key exam topics, this class prepares you to pass your online final exams through REVEI with confidence—and includes a money-back pass guarantee. | MORE + REGISTER >

MARKETING

Tue - Aug 18 | Lead Conversion Mastery & Overcoming Roadblocks

Virtual | 10:00 – 11:00 am | FREE | Learn how to turn more online leads into clients with proven strategies for overcoming common conversion challenges. This webinar covers practical techniques for handling objections, engaging hesitant buyers, strengthening follow-up, and moving prospects through your sales pipeline with confidence. Gain actionable tools to improve conversations, increase conversions, and close more deals. | MORE + REGISTER >

Wed - Aug 19 | From Leads to Lifetime Clients: Tech Strategies for Relationship Mgmt

Virtual | 1:00 – 2:00 pm | FREE | Discover technology tools and strategies that strengthen client relationships and drive long-term business growth. This webinar focuses on relationship-centered CRM practices, client retention automation, referral generation, and measuring the return on your relationship-building efforts to increase repeat business and referrals. | MORE + REGISTER >

Wed - Aug 19 | Realtor.com+ for Bay Area

Virtual | 1:00 – 2:00 pm | FREE | Learn how to use Realtor.com+, your new member benefit that brings client searches, listings, and messaging together in one branded, collaborative platform. This live demo will show you how to keep clients engaged and connected throughout the entire home buying or selling journey. | MORE + REGISTER >

MLS

Tue - Aug 25 | Set It & Forget It! Automation Using Paragon Collaboration Center

Virtual | 200 – 4:00 pm | FREE |  Learn how to use Paragon’s Collaboration Center to enhance client communication and automate listing alerts. This course covers setting up client portals, managing buyer searches, tracking client feedback, receiving real-time notifications, and collaborating with buyers online from any device to deliver a more responsive, personalized experience. | MORE + REGISTER >

WOMEN +

Wed - Aug 19 | WomanUp! 2026 Conference - Reignite Your "Why"

LIVE | 10:00 am – 7:00 pm | WESTIN PASADENA |  Join us at the Westin Pasadena. The annual conference promises to be an extraordinary gathering, bringing together the brightest minds, the most passionate hearts, and the strongest leaders in the world of real estate.  | MORE + REGISTER >

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