Real Estate Designation Course Now Online, Offered Through The Seller Agency Council

Demand for online educational format of real estate designation. The Seller Agency Council, owner of the Accredited Seller Representative Designation (ASR®), launched the online version of this highly-sought-after real estate accolade.

Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2006 -- In response to overwhelming demand, the Seller Agency Council, owner of the Accredited Seller Representative Designation (ASR®), launched the online version of this highly-sought-after real estate accolade. Official launch date of the online class was June 5, 2006.

According to Joe Kennedy, Executive Director of the Seller Agency Council, “The ASR® designation program focuses exclusively on seller agency and better equips agents to work with home-sellers during declining markets. It has become a buyers market in many areas,” he says “and the race is on to see who can now serve the seller more efficiently, more effectively and help him get the best price for his property.”

“For too long the emphasis has been on the buying side of the real estate transaction and today’s sellers are demanding increased and more professional representation of their interests in the home buying equation,” Kennedy said. “The Accredited Seller Representative Program was developed to do just that,” he concluded.

Offered by RealtyU®, network of real estate schools, through its online distance learning portal, http://www.realtyuonline.com/, the course remains in the exact same format as the classroom version. All class modules are presented in their full form: Module I (The Old vs. The New Model); Module II (The Market Area Specialist); Module III (The Pursuit of the Saleable Listing); and Module IV (The Process of Turning Listing into Sold).

Kennedy states, “Their robust distance learning platform is one of the chief reasons the ASR® course is now a part of the RealtyU® www.RealtyU.com Family. With the resources afforded to us by RealtyU®, we were able to accomplish all of our critical objectives for the online version of ASR®. The key for the Council was to avoid the mistake that many designations make in building an online project: simply placing the student workbook online for anyone to read.” The Seller Agency Council avoided this mistake by supplementing literary course material with more visually appealing multimedia material.

Beyond the multimedia component, this online real estate course provides each professional real estate agent with a special feature – an online notebook. This enhanced feature allows the attendee to take notes pertaining to any aspect of the course. When that particular section of the course is reviewed, the online system automatically produces the real estate professional’s pertinent notes, courseware, and the workbook section.

When the candidate has satisfied the necessary requirements to successfully complete the course, the Seller Agency Council automatically and immediately confers the ASR® membership, recognizing this real estate professional as an official ASR® Designee -- a process that occurs with more alacrity than the traditional classroom ceremony. The Council has also extended the benefit of the first year membership to all online enrollees, free of charge. “This is a very important course of study, considering the current tenor of today’s market. Agents and sellers across the country have already recognized the need for specialization on the selling side of the transaction. It is the Council’s sole goal to provide its members with the very best possible support structure to help them achieve that aspiration. Therefore, we are sponsoring the first year’s membership dues for all students who complete the course. That’s how important this goal is to us,” said Kennedy.

For more details on the online version please contact ASR® Career Counselors at 949.600.7176, Monday-Friday, 7:00am to 6:00pm (PST). Online educational offering of the official ASR® Designee course can be found at http://www.realtyuonline.com/asrcourse/seller-agency.htm.com.

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