If you are looking to sell real estate in Jamaica, you can do so by attending Real Estate Seller Course # 100H offered at the Jamaica University of Technology. After passing the course, you need to go through some background checks to make sure you don’t have any skeletons in your closet. The last step is an interview with the Jamaica Real Estate Board to get final approval for you to become a Sales Agent.

Vendor Course # 100H

This course is four weeks full time at the College of Built Environment, University of Technology, Jamaica. It offers material that is necessary for you to become an efficient agent in the local market, because what you do not know can hurt you. You will receive training to handle transactions for Jamaican properties such as sales, rentals and leases.

Background checks

The nature of the industry involves huge monetary transactions and in such a field, you might find people of a dishonest nature. To protect people and their assets from things like fraud, a background check is performed on each applicant for approval of a license, one of these checks is a police report.

The interview with the board

After gathering all the documents from your background check, you must submit these documents and attend an interview with a real estate board officer who puts the final seal of approval on your application to become a sales agent in Jamaica.

Start selling

Once you have passed the exams and controls to legally practice in Jamaica, in most cases you must work for an authorized dealer in Jamaica. There are some exceptions where people can sell property without having a license, but you should refer to the Jamaica Real Estate Law for conditions.