Before a hearing that could end in censure, suspension or revocation, how much written notice of the charges must the Commission give the licensee?La. R.S. 37:1456(A)(1)
Between which hours may the Commission's representatives inspect a licensee's records at the licensee's office, with Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays excluded?La. R.S. 37:1435(D)
Two brokers dispute which of them is entitled to the commission on a sale. What is the Commission's role?La. R.S. 37:1453(D)
What is the largest fine or civil penalty the Commission may impose on a licensee under R.S. 37:1455?La. R.S. 37:1455(A)
Which court reviews a final decision of the Commission?La. R.S. 37:1456(A)(6)
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Licensing requirements 8
A final judgment is rendered against a broker in a suit over a sale the broker handled as a licensee. How must the broker tell the Commission?La. R.S. 37:1450(A)
A newly licensed broker must complete 45 post-license education hours within how long after the initial license date?La. R.S. 37:1437(C)(1)(c)
A sponsoring broker ends a salesperson's sponsorship. Within how long must the form attesting to the termination be submitted to the Commission?La. R.S. 37:1441(A)
By what date each year is a license renewed timely?La. R.S. 37:1442(A)
Does selling a business for a fee require a real estate license in Louisiana?La. R.S. 37:1431(24)(h)
How long must an applicant for an initial individual broker license first have been licensed?La. R.S. 37:1437(C)(1)(a)
May one individual broker serve as qualifying broker for more than one licensed corporation?La. R.S. 37:1437.2(B)(1)
Which task may an unlicensed salaried employee of a broker perform for a property the broker manages?La. R.S. 37:1438(A)(6)
Requirements governing licensees' activities 14
A broker collects rental security deposits for the owners of property the broker manages. Into which account do the deposits go?LAC 46:LXVII.2701(C)
A broker is buying a rental house through a company in which she holds an interest. What must she do before negotiations begin?LAC 46:LXVII.3501(A)
A broker's agreement with a salesperson includes a non-compete clause. To be enforceable, until when must the salesperson have the right to rescind it?La. R.S. 37:1448.1(A)
A salesperson changed brokers and is owed a commission on a sale begun under the former sponsoring broker. How may it be paid?La. R.S. 37:1446(E)
A seller of a house wants $180,000 net and offers the broker everything above that figure. What does the license law say?La. R.S. 37:1448.3
A seller's property disclosure document reaches the buyer after the buyer has made an offer. What may the buyer do?La. R.S. 9:3198(B)(3)
Buyer and seller dispute a deposit held in a broker's sales escrow account. Within how long after the scheduled closing date, or after learning of the dispute if that comes first, must the broker act?LAC 46:LXVII.2901(A)
For how long must a broker retain escrow account bank statements and copies of documents from transactions in which the broker or a sponsored licensee appeared?La. R.S. 37:1449(D)
How much of a broker's own money may be kept in a sales escrow checking account to cover bank service charges?LAC 46:LXVII.2713(A)
In making an offer to buy a single-family house for a client, what must a licensee use?La. R.S. 37:1449.1(A)
What must a written agreement for the sale or management of real estate specify?La. R.S. 37:1449(C)
What must every advertisement by a salesperson or associate broker include?LAC 46:LXVII.2501(F)
Who must have direct supervision of a branch office?LAC 46:LXVII.2301(C)
Within how long after the final signature must each person who signed a document that pertains to more than one party receive a copy bearing all the signatures?La. R.S. 37:1449(B)
Louisiana civil law system 14
A man dies intestate, leaving a widow and two children of the marriage. What right does the widow have over his share of the community property?La. Civ. Code art. 890
A one-year residential lease expires. The tenant stays on for a week, and neither side gives notice or objects. What is the result?La. Civ. Code art. 2723
A possessor with no just title and no good faith occupies a tract openly and without interruption. After how many years may its ownership be acquired by prescription?La. Civ. Code art. 3486
A tenant owns the building that stands on land leased from another person. How does the Civil Code classify the building?La. Civ. Code art. 464
A written offer to buy states that it stays open until Friday at 5:00 p.m. May the buyer revoke it on Wednesday?La. Civ. Code art. 1928
After how many years of nonuse is a predial servitude extinguished?La. Civ. Code art. 753
Before a bond for deed may be cancelled for the buyer's default, how long must the notice served on the buyer allow for payment?La. R.S. 9:2945(A)
From what moment does an instrument transferring an immovable have effect against third persons?La. Civ. Code art. 1839
The parties expressly stipulate that a sum given by the buyer is earnest money. If the seller recedes from the contract, what must the seller return?La. Civ. Code art. 2624
Spouses own a rental house as community property, and the husband alone means to sign the act of sale. What does the Civil Code require for the sale?La. Civ. Code art. 2347
Three co-owners hold a tract in indivision. What consent is needed to sell the entire tract?La. Civ. Code art. 805
What does the Civil Code call the right, arising from the nature of a debt, that prefers a creditor even over those who have mortgages?La. Civ. Code art. 3186
When may the sale of an immovable be rescinded for lesion beyond moiety?La. Civ. Code art. 2589
Within how long after a residential lease terminates must the lessor return the tenant's deposit, less any amount lawfully retained?La. R.S. 9:3251(A)
Louisiana law of agency 14
A designated agent wants her broker's advice about a matter that involves a client's confidential information. Does the agency law let her share it with the broker?La. R.S. 9:3891(6)(c)
A licensee represents the seller, and a buyer client will not agree to a disclosed dual agency in the same sale. What does the agency law let the licensee do?La. R.S. 9:3897(F)
A licensee sells a house that she owns to a buyer she is working with. Is this dual agency?La. R.S. 9:3891(10)
A seller client gives her agent false information, which the agent passes to a buyer who is a customer. When is the agent liable to the customer for it?La. R.S. 9:3894(B)
A seller instructs her agent in writing to keep a leaking roof confidential. Is that "confidential information" under the agency law?La. R.S. 9:3891(6)(b)
A seller's designated agent misstates the square footage of the house. Is the seller liable for the agent's act under the agency law?La. R.S. 9:3899
After a brokerage agreement ends, which duties does the licensee still owe the former client, absent a written agreement?La. R.S. 9:3895
By when must a licensee obtain the clients' written consent to dual agency?La. R.S. 9:3897(C)
How is a subagency created under Louisiana's agency law?La. R.S. 9:3898
The seller pays the commission of the licensee who worked with the buyer. Does that payment decide whose agent the licensee is?La. R.S. 9:3896
When must a licensee give a prospective buyer the agency disclosure informational pamphlet or form?LAC 46:LXVII.3703(C)
Which of these is a ministerial act that creates no agency relationship?La. R.S. 9:3891(12)
Which of these may a dual agent NOT disclose without the client's permission?La. R.S. 9:3897(B)
With no written agreement saying otherwise, what is a licensee who is working with a buyer, beyond ministerial acts, considered to be?La. R.S. 9:3892
An unofficial Louisiana real estate broker practice exam: 55 of our own state law questions from the license law, the Commission's rules, the agency law and the Civil Code; this site is not affiliated with the Louisiana Real Estate Commission.
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One state outline for salesperson and broker
The Louisiana Real Estate Salesperson, Broker, and Instructor Licensing Examination Content Outlines give all three candidates one state exam: 55 scored questions on the Commission, licensing, the statutory requirements on licensees' activities, the civil law system and the law of agency. The bank holds 5, 8, 14, 14 and 14, the middle of each section's range.
Civil law, not common law
A quarter of the state part is the Louisiana civil law system: separate immovables, servitudes and usufruct, ownership in indivision and community property, lesion beyond moiety, earnest money, bond for deed, reconduction of a lease.
What the broker answers for
The questions on licensees' activities lean to the sponsoring or qualifying broker: escrow and trust accounts, five years of records, branch office managers, net listings and the prescribed purchase agreement form.
A broker may keep no more than $2,500 of personal funds in an escrow account, for bank service charges only (LAC 46:LXVII.2713).
Dual agency needs the informed written consent of all clients, obtained before the licensee acts as a dual agent (R.S. 9:3897).
A listing or management agreement carries a definite expiration date with no qualifying conditions (R.S. 37:1449).
Questions and answers
How many questions are on the Louisiana real estate broker exam?
The candidate handbook dated July 2024 lists 80 scored questions in 150 minutes for the broker national exam and 55 in 90 minutes for the broker state exam, or 135 in 240 minutes together. Unscored pretest questions are added to each.
What score passes the Louisiana broker exam?
The handbook gives brokers a passing scaled score of 75 on the national part and 75 on the state part; salespersons need 70. A scaled score is neither the number nor the percentage of questions answered correctly.
What are the requirements for a Louisiana broker license?
R.S. 37:1437 asks for four years of licensure, two of them immediately before the application, and 150 hours of approved instruction with at least 30 on broker responsibilities. Forty-five post-license hours follow within 180 days of the license date.
Are these the real Louisiana broker exam questions?
No. Every question was written for this page from the Louisiana statutes, Civil Code articles and Commission rules it cites, and each keyed answer was matched against that text. No licensed Louisiana broker or attorney has reviewed them.