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Hawaii Real Estate Broker Exam Cheat Sheet (2026)

A free, printable Hawaii Real Estate Broker exam cheat sheet: the 61 highest-yield points to know, grouped into 20 sections that follow the exam's content areas, each section with its published weight.

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  • Last updated: September 2026.
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Property Ownership

10% of the exam
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  • Real vs. Personal Property and the Bundle of Rights
  • Estates in Land
  • Forms of Co-Ownership

Land Use Controls and Regulations

5% of the exam
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  • Government Powers Over Land
  • Zoning and Public Land-Use Tools
  • Private Land-Use Controls

Valuation and Market Analysis

8% of the exam
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  • Value, Price, and Cost
  • The Three Approaches to Value
  • CMA, BPO, and the Limits of a License

Financing

9% of the exam
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  • Notes and Security Instruments
  • Loan Types and Common Clauses
  • Federal Lending Laws

Contracts

19% of the exam
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  • Essential Elements and Validity
  • Offer, Acceptance, and Counteroffers
  • Common Real Estate Contracts
  • Performance, Breach, and Remedies

General Principles of Agency

13% of the exam
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  • Creating Agency and Fiduciary Duties
  • Clients, Customers, Single and Dual Agency
  • Broker Supervision and Vicarious Liability

Property Disclosures

7% of the exam
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  • The Duty to Disclose Material Facts
  • Latent vs. Patent Defects
  • Federally Required Disclosures

Property Management

5% of the exam
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  • The Management Agreement and Trust Funds
  • Leasehold Estates and Lease Types
  • Landlord and Tenant Rights

Transfer of Title

6% of the exam
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  • How Title Transfers
  • Types of Deeds
  • Recording and Title Assurance

Practice of Real Estate

12% of the exam
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  • Brokerage Management and Supervision
  • Trust Accounts, Commingling, and Conversion
  • Fair Housing, Antitrust, and Risk Management

Real Estate Calculations

6% of the exam
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  • The Basic Percentage Formula
  • Area, Volume, and Investment Measures
  • Finance and Proration Calculations

Ascertaining and Disclosing Material Facts

14% of the exam
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  • Two record systems, two taxes
  • The statutory disclosures
  • Environmental conditions and land history

Types of Ownership

6% of the exam
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  • Condominiums under chapter 514B
  • Cooperatives and limited-equity cooperatives
  • Time share plans

Property Management

10% of the exam
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  • Money at the start and the end of a tenancy
  • Notices, and the 2026 change to section 521-68
  • Who may manage, and from where

Land Utilization

6% of the exam
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  • The state layer: four districts
  • The county layer, and private covenants
  • Special management areas

Title and Conveyances

12% of the exam
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  • Estates, tenancies and leaseholds
  • Liens and recording
  • Boundaries and foreclosure

Contracts

14% of the exam
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  • Validity: what has to be in writing
  • Provisions the rules require, and changes they forbid
  • Timing: the cancellation and rescission clocks

Financing

4% of the exam
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  • The agreement of sale
  • Units financed and sold by the State
  • Why this matters at the listing appointment

Escrow Process and Closing Statements

8% of the exam
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  • Who may hold the escrow
  • Closing responsibilities
  • The buyer's choice on a foreclosure resale

Professional Practices and Conduct

26% of the exam
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  • Supervision, and what a principal broker cannot delegate away
  • Trust funds and advertising
  • Licensing, discipline and the agency disclosure

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