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Maryland Real Estate Broker Exam Cheat Sheet (2026)

A free, printable Maryland Real Estate Broker exam cheat sheet: the 55 highest-yield points to know, grouped into 17 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

Duties and Powers of the Real Estate Commission

12.5% of the exam
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  • General Powers and Discipline
  • Investigations, Hearings, and Appeals
  • The Guaranty Fund
  • Examination of Records (Broker Only)

Licensing Requirements

20% of the exam
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  • Activities Requiring a License, and the Ladder
  • Change of Status, Renewal, and Continuing Education
  • Entities, Offices, and Ownership

Brokerage Relationships

17.5% of the exam
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  • Listing and Brokerage Agreements
  • Agency Disclosure and Dual Agency
  • Conflicts of Interest and Property Disclosures

Supervision

15% of the exam
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  • Handling Trust Money
  • Recordkeeping
  • Layered Supervision
  • Other Maryland Laws

Business Conduct

22.5% of the exam
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  • Offers
  • Commissions and Rebates
  • Advertising and Signs
  • Fair Housing, Summary Suspensions, and Convictions

Ethics

12.5% of the exam
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  • Unfair Inducements
  • Dealings with Other Licensees
  • General Ethics

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