Allied Real Estate Schools

Allied Real Estate Schools is an entirely online real estate school that offers self-paced and livestream real estate classes. Its goal is to help real estate professionals achieve more in their careers by offering them convenient and flexible learning options. It has helped hundreds of thousands of students launch or grow their real estate careers. 

Pros Explained

• Choice of online class format: You can choose whichever online format works best for you, either self-paced or livestream. Livestream is like being in a virtual classroom with scheduled class times and instructor interaction. 
• Multiple customer service options: You can email, call, or use the online chat function, or check out the FAQs, which is convenient when you have a question that you want a quick answer to. 
• Satisfaction guarantee: If you start the course and decide it’s not for you, you can get your money back up to one week after starting.

Cons Explained

• No campus locations: If you want to go to a campus location and interact with instructors and other students, then this isn’t the school for you. All classes are entirely online.  
• Only offered in two states: The school only offers courses for California and Texas licensure, so if you want to work in real estate in another state, then you will need to find another school. 
• No mobile app: This means that courses can’t be taken as easily on the go and need to be taken from the website.

Available Courses

Allied Real Estate Schools offers pre-licensing real estate agent courses, broker courses, exam prep, and continuing education classes. The pre-licensing courses are offered in both California and Texas for agents and brokers. However, exam prep for agents and brokers is only offered in California. Continuing education classes and mortgage broker classes are also only offered in California.

Salesperson Pre-Licensing

Salesperson pre-licensing courses are offered completely online in either a self-paced or a livestream format. In California, self-paced packages start at $139.30 and include all pre-license courses, downloadable e-book, practice exams, and live instructor access. The next tier offers all of those items plus exam cram videos, flash cards, an e-book dictionary, and a pass or don’t pay guarantee for $209.30. The top tier also includes continuing education classes and a hard copy of the textbook. This tier is $279.30. 

If you want to purchase a California livestream pre-license package, those are $314.30 and you can choose from a few different dates and times. The livestream packages include pre-licensure courses, instructor support, practice exams, cram videos, an e-book dictionary, hard copy of the textbook, and a pass or don’t pay guarantee. 

Texas pre-licensing packages range from $271.60 to $481.60. The basic package includes six required courses, downloadable e-books, online proctoring, practice exams, and live instructor access. The top tier classes also include 90 hours of SAE courses, which are the salesperson apprentice education courses required in Texas for agents who are renewing their licenses for the first time. 

Exam Prep

Exam prep comes in some of the pre-licensing packages for Texas and California real estate classes. However, it can also be purchased on its own. The California salesperson (agent) exam prep course is $109 and includes practice exams, custom exams to help you study what you need more practice on, and digital flashcards. The California broker exam prep class is also $109 and includes all of the same things but for brokers and not agents. 

Texas exam prep for salespeople is $99 and also includes the same number of practice tests, state and national tests, and digital flashcards that are offered in California. 

Continuing Education

Allied Real Estate Schools offers continuing education classes online that are all state approved and created by industry experts. You can also renew your California license online after you complete the continuing education requirements. Courses can be purchased individually starting as low as $14.99 and include topics such as management, agency, and escrow. Additionally, you can purchase a continuing education package for $67.00 or a more robust package that also includes coaching, webinars, and job tools for $97.00.

Course Format

All of the courses for Allied students are offered online in self-paced or livestream formats. They include the required courses and electives and can be taken from the comfort of your home on the schedule that best suits you. Courses include all the books that you need either digitally or in hard copy. They also include practice exams, an overview of the topic, glossaries, indexes, and quizzes. 

Instructors

The instructors are all industry veterans and are referred to as course experts. As a student, you will have access to these instructors via email seven days a week directly from your course. You can click on the email instructor button once you log into your course. In addition, if you’re in California, you can call an instructor Monday through Friday on the customer service number. And if you’re in Texas, you will have access to instructor-led webinars to get additional questions answered. 

Reputation

Allied Real Estate Schools has a positive reputation as an online school, with overall positive student reviews and high exam pass rates. It is also backed by an industry-leading school, Real Estate Express, which further boosts its reputation. Student reviews on the site are positive and express praise for the varying class formats.

The school is accredited by both the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) and the International Distance Education Certification Center (IDECC), and students have access to customer support through the phone, online chat, and email. The website is easy to navigate and the site has additional resources which make getting your questions answered less time-consuming. 

Price

Allied Real Estate Schools offers affordable online courses with varying price ranges. Individual exam prep courses are priced at $109. Continuing education courses that are purchased individually start at $14.99 and packages range from $67.00 to $97.00. Many of the courses are currently on sale but the sale price can change at any time. 

Pre-licensing courses in California range from $139.30 to $279.30 depending on the course format you choose and if you want exam prep and additional resources included. The livestream courses are more expensive than the self-paced options. 

In Texas, pre-licensing prices range from $271.60 to $481.60.

Customer Service

You can reach customer service at Allied Real Estate Schools on their website www.alliedschools.com or via phone at 1-866-256-2930. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can also email them or participate in an online chat from their site. All of the contact information is listed on their website. 

Competition: Allied Real Estate Schools vs. Kaplan

Kaplan is one of the most well-known and well-respected online educational providers. It offers both live-online and on-demand real estate licensing, exam prep, and continuing education courses. We decided to compare Kaplan and Allied Real Estate Schools because both schools provide real estate courses in California and Texas. However, Kaplan offers programs for all 50 states. Both schools have self-paced and live virtual classes to choose from. 

Overall, we recommend choosing Kaplan because you can pick from hundreds of course topics, there are affordable tuition prices, and it’s a well-known and reputable online education provider with a longstanding history that provides different course formats for various learning styles in all 50 states.

	Allied Real Estate School	Kaplan
Pricing	$131.60+ for pre-licensing in California	$179+ for pre-licensing in California
Courses Offered	Real estate licensing, continuing ed, exam prep, and mortgage broker classes	Real estate licensing, exam prep, continuing ed, and more
Number of States Courses are Offered	2	50
Course format	Self-paced online and livestream	Live online, on-demand, home study

Our Methodology: How We Review Real Estate Schools

Our methodology takes on a quantitative approach. When reviewing real estate schools, we thoroughly analyze different aspects of each provider including their overall reputation, the types of courses offered, states courses are offered in, and the cost of each course. We also compare instructor qualifications, class formats, course and individual packaging options, and former student reviews, as well third-party ratings. In addition, we consider whether or not the school is accredited and additional features on its site.