RES Examination

Paper 1

Competency Unit 1: Real Estate Agency Industry Overview & Basic Land Law Concepts

Real Estate Agency Industry Overview

1. 1.1Real estate market and submarkets
2. 1.2Real estate market players and government intervention

Basic Land Law Concepts

1. 1.3 Introduction
2. 1.4 Land
3. 1.5 Estates in land
4. 1.6 State Lands Act
5. 1.7 Rights in another’s land
6. 1.8 Registration of titles

Competency Unit 2: Dealings with Interests in Land

1. 2.1 Law of contract
2. 2.2 Law of agency
3. 2.3 Landlord and tenant law
4. 2.4 Negligence
5. 2.5 Conveyance inter vivos
6. 2.6 Mortgage
7. 2.7 Gift
8. 2.8 Trust
9. 2.9 Succession
10. 2.10 Future interests
11. 2.11 Co-ownership
12. 2.12 Restrictions on capacity to hold land
13. 2.13 Planning and development of land

Paper 2

Competency Unit 3: Regulation of Real Estate Agency Industry & Real Estate Marketing

1. 3.1 Regulation of real estate agency industry
2. 3.2 Role and functions of salespersons and their requisite knowledge and skills
3. 3.3 Principles of real estate marketing
4. 3.4 Types of listing
5. 3.5 Methods of sale
6. 3.6 Regulations on advertisements
7. 3.7 Marketing of residential property
8. 3.8 Marketing of commercial property
9. 3.9 Marketing of industrial property
10. 3.10 Marketing of special properties
11. 3.11 Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act

Competency Unit 4: Property Transactions

1. 4.1 Sale of uncompleted private properties
2. 4.2 Sale of completed private properties
3. 4.3 Collective sale of private properties
4. 4.4 Sale of HDB flats
5. 4.5 Leasing of private properties
6. 4.6 Subletting of HDB flats
7. 4.7 Foreign worker housing
8. 4.8 Taxes on property
9. 4.9 Property finance and financial calculations