May 7, 2025

The MCE Season Pass from the Association of REALTORS® School (ARS) is your all-access ticket to fulfilling Pennsylvania real estate license renewal requirements for the 2024–2026 cycle.

Available for purchase through your Secure Member Portal starting Thursday, May 15, the MCE Season Pass allows you to register for, and attend unlimited standard continuing education (CE) courses—both required and elective—between July 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026, for a one-time fee of $125. All Tri-County members are eligible to purchase the MCE Season Pass. 

On Thursday, May 15, the first 3 months of available CE courses will also be open for registration at tcsr.realtor/events. Classes begin July 1, and there are options to fit every schedule and learning style.

To make planning easier, you can sort the class calendar by tags such as “Required,” “Elective,” “Virtual,” and more. Whether you’re looking for a specific topic or want to complete your required hours, it’s easy to find what you need.

Want to know what CE you need for license renewal?
The Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission requires all real estate licensees (including brokers and associate brokers) to complete 14 hours of education each renewal period. 

Continuing education requirements vary depending on when your license was issued and whether this is your first renewal cycle. Visit our CE requirements page for all the details!

The more classes you attend, the more you save!
WITH THE MCE SEASON PASS: Tuition for 14 hours of standard continuing education is $125. Then you can take additional electives at no extra cost!

WITHOUT THE MCE SEASON PASS: Tuition for 14 hours of standard continuing education on average costs $210. ($75 in required courses + $135 in elective courses)

That is a savings of at least $85!!!
Your investment in taking classes through the Association means your transcripts are always available in your member portal—and your dues dollars stay low.

Visit tcsr.realtor/mcepass for inclusions, exclusions, and more.
Contact 610-560-4900 with questions.

Hear from NAR President Kevin Sears on the newly announced MLS policy, Multiple Listing Options for Sellers, including details about the policy, how it came to be, and how it will benefit consumers. 

This policy was announced earlier this year and introduces “delayed marketing exempt listings” to give sellers more flexibility when marketing their property—while still preserving transparency and access for other MLS participants. The newly released video explains what this means for you and your clients, and how it works alongside existing policies like Clear Cooperation.

Tri-County Suburban REALTORS has created a dedicated page on our website with the latest updates and key information surrounding this update. Click here to visit. 

Real estate professionals have reason to be cautiously optimistic following April’s stronger-than-expected jobs report. With unemployment steady and payrolls growing, economists are watching closely to see how tariffs and trade tensions might affect the months ahead. What does it all mean for the housing market? Experts from Bright MLS, NAR, and more weigh in.

Read the full article on RISMedia for insight into what this could signal for real estate in the weeks to come.

💡 Did you know? As a member of Tri-County Suburban REALTORS® and a Bright MLS subscriber, you get a free account to RISMedia Premier—a leading source of national real estate news, analysis, and business development content. No paywall, no subscription fees—just expert insight at your fingertips. To access your free account, simply log into Bright MLS to activate RISMedia Premier.

Starter homes? Gen Z is thinking longer-term. Today’s young consumers come with their own values, habits and tech mindsets. Learn how to build trust with this growing cohort of home buyers.

It’s official: Gen Z has entered the real estate market. Those born between 1997 and 2012 now make up 20% of the U.S. population. As one of the largest generational groups, they present a growing opportunity for real estate professionals. Gen Z already accounts for 3% of the market, and they represent the largest share of single buyers in the market, according to the 2025 “Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends Snapshot.”

Despite their youth and the challenges of high mortgage rates and limited inventory, many Gen Zers are eager to purchase single-family homes, townhouses or condominiums. Click here for insights into this niche market of home-buyers via REALTOR® Magazine.

In recent years, it has been very much a seller’s market. However, results from Bright MLS surveys of real estate agents working with buyers and sellers in the first quarter of 2025 suggest that the outlook for buyers is improving. Buyers have more listings to choose from and face less competition in the market. Fewer would-be buyers are leaving the market frustrated by losing out on homes. The 2025 housing market is definitely feeling different to buyers, according to insights from Bright MLS agents.

While the seller’s market run may be coming to an end, it’s too soon to say whether or how far the pendulum will shift to buyers. What is clear is that homebuyers in the Bright MLS service area are facing fewer obstacles to buying than they did a year ago. Whether this continues to be the case depends not only on housing market conditions, but also on broader trends in the overall economy.

Buyers are benefiting from more inventory

Homebuyers were able to move quickly at the beginning of 2025. Nearly 40% of buyers who closed on a home in the first quarter of 2025 had been looking for less than a month. This is a significantly higher share than in 2024, when less than 20% of successful buyers looked for a home for less than a month.

More supply is one important reason why buyers found a home more quickly. After years of very limited inventory, an increase in new listings offered buyers more options to start 2025. This marks a notable change from the past few years, when buyers were competing over a dearth of inventory and typically had to make offers on multiple homes before they reached the settlement table.

In the first quarter of 2025, more buyers only had to make an offer on one home. About 50% of buyers who closed in the first quarter of 2025 had made an offer on just the home they ultimately purchased. This is a slightly higher share than we have seen in recent months and suggests that buyers are starting to have an easier time in this less competitive market.

First-time buyers still face more competition than repeat buyers. In the first quarter of 2025, about 43% of first-time buyers were successful with one offer, compared to more than half (51%) of repeat buyers.

For the full article, from Bright's Research click here.

West Conshohocken Borough will hold a public hearing to consider amendments to the borough’s rental registration code. The proposed changes would amend the definition of family, require rental registration certificates, and establish rules and regulations pertaining to the use of residential rental properties. The April 8 borough council meeting agenda includes minutes from the March meeting saying the borough solicitor added a clause to the draft ordinance that states no rentals should be less than 30 days. The proposed ordinance is available for review at West Conshohocken Borough Hall. The proposed amendments will be considered at a public hearing on Tuesday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the West Conshohocken Borough Hall, 112 Ford St.
Source: Times Herald; 4/29/2025

May 15th | 1:00pm-2:00pm 
Creating a CMA in Bright MLS I Virtual Webinar
Virtual Webinar via Bright MLS

May 21st | 4:00am-6:00pm
Developer’s Forum and Happy Hour – Ambler Yards
Station Partners at Ambler Yards

June 12th | 4:00pm-6:00pm 
REALTOR® Happy Hour and Affiliate Expo 
Fox Barn at Twenty9

June 19th | 1:00pm-2:00pm 
New Listing Submission in Bright MLS I Virtual Webinar
Virtual Webinar via Bright MLS

July 11th | 8:15am-9:30am 
Commercial/Industrial Marketing Exchange – Hybrid – With Guest Speaker Scott Smith, EnviroSure Inc.
Hybrid

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