Best online real estate schools in Hawaii

Because Hawaii’s licence period is a fixed statewide biennium rather than a personal two-year term. Every licence expires on 31 December of an even-numbered year, so the amount of licence you actually get depends on when in the cycle you join it. Two consequences run in opposite directions. On fees: the initial licence costs $382 if issued in an odd-numbered year and $282 in an even one, and because the renewal is due by 30 November of that even year, someone licensed in, say, October of an even year pays $282 and then $268 within weeks — roughly $550 for a couple of months of licensure. On continuing education: HAR § 16-99-89(c) provides that “a licensee who is issued a Hawaii real estate salesperson license during an even-numbered year shall be deemed to have completed equivalent to the continuing education hours”, so that same person owes nothing, while a salesperson licensed in December of an odd year owes all twenty hours within about eleven months. Same length of licence held, opposite obligations, decided entirely by which side of 1 January you land on.

Sixty. HAR § 16-99-36 requires successful completion of a curriculum in real estate at an accredited institution “consisting of a minimum of sixty class hours”, and defines a class hour as sixty minutes of classroom instruction — a full hour, not a fifty-minute academic hour. The broker course is eighty hours, and there is no direct route to a broker licence: HRS § 467-8(a)(6) bars a broker licence to anyone who does not already hold a current Hawaii salesperson licence.

Yes. HAR § 16-99-52.1 separately authorises independent study courses, requiring only that the course “reasonably require the student to expend a minimum of sixty hours”, that the school be available to answer questions and provide reasonable oversight that the enrolled student is the one doing the work, and that the student certify having personally completed each assigned module. HAR § 16-99-61 then makes the 80% attendance test apply to classroom students, with independent-study students satisfying completion through the modules and the final examination instead.

No. We checked HRS chapter 467, all of HAR chapter 99 including its continuing education subchapter, and the Commission’s renewal instructions, and there is no post-licensing course, no provisional licence status and no first-renewal education course. Hawaii has the opposite of one — the even-year exemption described above.

The Commission’s renewal instructions set it as the mandatory core courses, Parts A and B, at three hours each, plus fourteen hours of elective credit. Two details are easy to miss: the core course is redesignated each biennium, so a course bought for a previous cycle does not carry over; and both Parts A and B must be completed to receive any core credit at all, so three hours of Part A on its own earns nothing.

It depends which deadline, and the two have very different consequences. Missing the continuing education does not cost you the licence: HRS § 467-11.5(a) provides that failure to satisfy the requirement by the expiration date “shall result in the renewed license being automatically placed on an ‘inactive’ status.” Missing the fee is the serious one: HRS § 467-11 makes failure to pay the biennial renewal fee and submit a completed renewal application “a forfeiture of the license as of January 1 of the subsequent odd-numbered year.” Note too that the Commission’s prescribed renewal deadline is 30 November, a month before the 31 December expiry.

No. There is no errors and omissions provision in HRS chapter 467, none in HAR chapter 99, and no mention of it anywhere in the Commission’s licence renewal instructions. The usual source of the confusion is the Real Estate Recovery Fund, which is a state-administered consumer-compensation fund paid into at licensure. It protects the public against licensee misconduct; it is not insurance and gives you no cover or defence.

No. HAR § 16-99-19 requires a licence application to be accompanied by the fee and by supporting documents for the education and experience requirements, and nothing else; fingerprints and criminal history checks appear nowhere in HRS chapter 467 either. Character is screened through the HRS § 467-8(a)(3) standard of “a reputation for or record of competency, honesty, truthfulness, financial integrity, and fair dealing”, and by self-disclosure. If you are worried a past matter might disqualify you, HRS § 467-8(b) lets you request a preliminary decision from the Commission before you undertake the prelicensing education — that is, before spending anything on tuition. The statute is clear that the decision is advisory, non-binding and cannot be appealed, but it is a signal you can get for free and almost no comparison page mentions it exists.

Yes, quarterly, and it is one of the better datasets any state publishes — the Commission posts pass/fail reports for the quarter and for a rolling twelve months, broken out by named school and by delivery mode. We are publishing only the statewide figure here: for 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, 690 of 2,289 candidates passed the national portion, a rate of 30.1%. We have deliberately not reproduced individual school rates, because the report gives percentages without the number of candidates behind them, and a 100% rate on two candidates is not a fact about a school. Download the report and read the denominators for yourself.