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Virginia Real Estate Broker Exam Cram Sheet (2026)

The highest-yield points on the Virginia Real Estate Brokerexam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.

125questions
160 mintime limit
Raw cut score, not a single percentage: approx. 60 national points and 38 state points (broker; PSI)to pass
15content areas

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

Broker Supervision in Virginia

30% of the exam
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  • DPOR, the Real Estate Board, and the Broker License
  • Supervising Salespersons and Associate Brokers
  • Supervising Unlicensed Personnel

Escrow, Trust Accounts, and Commingling

25% of the exam
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  • Holding Client Funds
  • The Prohibition on Commingling
  • Disputed Deposits and Recordkeeping

Common Interest Communities: POA and Condominium Acts

25% of the exam
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  • Common Interest Communities in Virginia
  • Property Owners' Association Act Disclosure
  • Condominium Act Resale Certificate

Virginia Transaction Law: Disclosure, Landlord-Tenant, and Fair Housing

20% of the exam
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  • Residential Property Disclosure
  • Underground Utility Damage Prevention and Landlord-Tenant
  • Fair Housing

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