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Real Estate Training + Networking Equal Success

Long & Foster invests in your career with educational and networking opportunities, from pre-licensing all the way through your life’s work. We’re here for you when you start your career and there for you when you’re ready to step back from real estate, even helping you sell your business to another successful Long & Foster agent. Everything we offer—from training to networking—is with the goal of helping you reach your full potential.

“Why have I stayed with Long & Foster? So many reasons. Everything an agent wants to learn, we teach. We have a great office culture, great chemistry. The respect flows from management to agents."

- Lilian Jorgenson, McLean Office, McLean, Virginia

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Everything You Need to Get Your Real Estate License

Ready to pursue your real estate career? Long & Foster Institute of Real Estate and Foster Real Estate School offer the foundation necessary for you to meet your state’s education requirements, so you can earn your license – your first step toward success. Our schools fulfill classroom pre-requisites and allow you to take the real estate exam in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.

If you’re ready to sign up for online real estate classes or find an in-classroom pre-licensing course, see our schedule. In Pennsylvania, you can take classes through the Foster Real Estate School.

A Trusted Source for Real Estate Education

More agents trust Long & Foster for their education and professional development than anyone else in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. In the last year:

5,300+

Students who attended Principles and Practices programs

10,700+

Students who attended continuing education courses

5,600+

Students who attended virtual online exam reviews

Stay on Top of Industry Trends & Developments

Earning your license is only the first stop—you’ll then continually take classes to stay updated with industry trends and developments and maintain your license. To make that process easier for you, we partnered with The CE Shop, enabling you to complete all your CE requirements online. We offer classroom instruction, too. If you are licensed in Virginia, we’ll help you get the requisite 30 hours of post-license education through our program.

Grow Your Business Exponentially

Whether you’re just starting out in real estate or already an experienced agent, Long & Foster’s exclusive Success Path program will help you achieve unlimited success. The progressive series of high-level instruction is defined by results and business objectives. Through its year-round training opportunities, you will learn proven models and strategic systems that will allow you to grow your business with confidence.

Plan For Your Future

There may come a time when you are ready to acquire another agent’s book of business, or even further down the road, sell your life’s work to a like-minded colleague. We’ve created an innovative program for that, too. The Long & Foster Agent Succession Program helps agents sell their established real estate businesses to other Long & Foster sales associates, leaving their clients in good hands and realizing a return on their years of investment.

Receive Tuition Reimbursement

Pursuing a career in real estate? Long & Foster offers tuition reimbursement for all new real estate sales associates who join Long & Foster. No matter the real estate school you attend, upon your first closing, you will be reimbursed the full tuition and book costs currently being charged by Long & Foster’s affiliated schools.