The Academy for Continuing Education (ACE) is celebrating its 25th year with a symposium schedule on three consecutive Wednesdays, comprising February 26, March 4, and March 11. The sessions in the Grand Ballroom of the 3 West Club, 3 West 51st Street.
Master Coach Esther Muller co-founded ACE in 1995, and the event has consistently attracted up to 300 attendees for its three-day continuing education symposiums. Speakers have included Barbara Corcoran; Brad Inman, founder of Inman News; Howard Lorber, chairman of Douglas Elliman; Wall Street Journal Editor Peter Grant; developer Michael Shvo; New York Post commercial real estate writer Lois Weiss and William Rudin, CEO and chairman of Rudin Management, and chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).
“We were disruptors from day one, with a mission to educate, inform and empower busy real estate professionals who, frankly, would rather be selling than studying,” said Muller. “But with a rich curriculum presented by industry leaders and journalists, we have been able to engage thousands of agents and brokers so that they qualify for re-certification.”
On the heels of ACE’s anniversary is New York State Law 3839. Introduced by State Senator Brad Hoylman and signed into law earlier this year, it requires all brokers to take 22.5 hours of certified continuing education classes every two years, as has always been the case for licensed salespersons. It will impact nearly 55,000 New York State licensed real estate brokers, who will be mandated to do so again, as of July 2021. Most significantly, the new law requires the thousands of “grandfathered” brokers to again take the fully vetted curriculum.
