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CRS Designation Requirements
Effective January 1, 2011


The CRS® Designation, awarded by the Council of Residential Specialists, is the highest professional designation awarded to REALTORS® in the residential sales field. Less than 4% of all REALTORS® hold the CRS® Designation. CRS Designees earn an average of $85,000 annually - nearly three times the $29,400 median income of REALTORS® serving as sales associates.

Requirements For The CRS® Designation

Below is a summary of the options available for obtaining the CRS designation; to download a pdf version of the options, the approved education courses and electives click the link above.

Program
 Option A Option B Pro-Program Managers
Production
Requirements
75 transactions
within any five years

or

$25 million within
any five years
25 transactions
(with no time
frame)

or

$8 million with a
minimum of 10
transactions within
any 2 years

150 Transactions

or

An average of $1
million per year of
experience with a
minimum of 40
transactions

(i.e. 10 years=$10
mil, 15 years=$15
mil, 25 years=$25
mil, etc.)

Directly oversee a
minimum of 400
closed residential
transactions

or

Directly oversee $80
million in closed
residential
transactions

or

Have 4 years of real
estate management
experience
CRS Education
Requirements

32 Credits,
16 Credits Must
Come from CRS
Courses
48 Credits,
16 Credits Must
Come from CRS
Courses
16 Credits,
16 Credits Must
Come from CRS
Courses
48 Credits,
16 Credits Must
Come from CRS
Courses
Elective
Requirements
32 Credits
32 Credits
N/A
32 Credits

ADDITIONALLY...

Download pdf of detailed designation requirements

All Designation programs require membership in the Council of Residential Specialists. All members are required to maintain active REALTOR® or REALTOR ASSOCIATE® membership in their local board/state association. A $75 processing fee applies to all designation options. There is no time limit in fulfilling the requirements.

The links below will provide you with the forms required to become a member of the National Council of Residential Specialists:

National Membership Application
CRS Designation Application
National Affidavit of Transactions

National CRS Membership does not automatically make you a member of the Northern California CRS Chapter – they are two different memberships.

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