Relocation for Real Estate Professionals | $149.00 | Self-paced — enroll any time
Recommended professional development for real estate agents
Relocation for Real Estate Professionals
Become the relocation expert in your market.
Global Mobility Adviser’s Relocation for Real Estate Professionals course helps agents develop the knowledge and confidence to serve corporate transferees and work more effectively with relocation departments.
- Self-paced
- 2–3 hours
- 10 modules
- Bonus downloads
Differentiate yourself. Build credibility. Earn more relocation referrals.
- Differentiate yourself from traditional residential agents
- Demonstrate specialized relocation knowledge
- Better understand the needs of corporate transferees
- Build credibility with Relocation Directors and broker relocation departments
- Position yourself for employer-sponsored relocation referrals
- Use the GMA-RRP designation on your business cards, website, email signature, and LinkedIn profile
Course Introduction
The course was not conceived as generic continuing education for Realtors. It addresses a genuine disconnect: you may be excellent at selling real estate and still know very little about the machinery of corporate relocation.
Meanwhile, relocation professionals routinely have to explain that machinery to the agents they use. The course closes that gap.
Why take this course?
- Get more relocation referrals and listings. You will understand what relocation companies, employers, and transferees actually need, making you a more credible choice for corporate-relocation business.
- Serve relocating buyers more effectively. You will understand the special pressures on transferees, timelines, employer benefits, reporting requirements, home-finding constraints, and the fact that the transaction may involve parties beyond the buyer and the agent.
- Understand how employer-sponsored relocation works. You will learn program structures, who the players are, broker expectations, what the relocation company is doing, and how the real-estate transaction fits into the larger process.
- Know how to work with Relocation Directors and RMCs. You will learn what those organizations expect from you, including communication, responsiveness, documentation, valuation/reporting requirements, and compliance with the relocation process.
- Reduce mistakes that can jeopardize a referral. An ordinary real-estate transaction and a corporate relocation transaction are not always handled the same way. Training helps you recognize those differences before they create problems.
- Become easier for a relocation department to use. Relocation directors spend considerable time teaching agents the basics. As a trained GMA-RRP agent, you will require less hand-holding and be more transferee-ready.
- Differentiate yourself in a crowded real-estate market. The GMA-RRP designation gives you a specific specialization you can show on your website, LinkedIn profile, email signature, business cards, marketing materials, and more.
- Demonstrate competence, not merely claim experience. The designation signals that you bring competence, credibility, and transferee-ready performance.
- Build relationships with corporate-relocation sources. The ultimate commercial benefit is not simply knowing more about relocation; it is becoming someone a relocation director, brokerage relocation department, or corporate program feels comfortable assigning business to.
- Capture serious buyers. Relocating employees are frequently motivated buyers working under defined timelines, sometimes with company-paid benefits and professional support surrounding the move.
Self-paced. 10 modules. 2–3 hours.
Self-paced online learning
Complete in approximately 2–3 hours
10 concise learning modules
Interactive quizzes and final assessment
Bonus downloadable field guides
Earn the GMA-RRP designation
Agents who complete the course earn the GMA-RRP — Global Mobility Adviser’s Relocation Real Estate Professional designation. This credential signals to Relocation Directors and broker relocation departments that an agent has completed specialized relocation training and is prepared to serve transferees competently and professionally.
Built by People Who've Lived It
Michael D. Ray
SPHR | Founder & Lead Consultant, Global Mobility Adviser
Michael Ray is the founder of Global Mobility Adviser, with over 30 years of experience in Global Mobility and Relocation. He has held senior roles and led engagements across the industry, including work with organizations such as Prudential Relocation, Mercer, Topia, and Emigra. He has completed more than 100 consulting projects impacting 25,000+ employees worldwide. Global Mobility Adviser is the platform behind this course.
Steven John
SCRP® | SGMS-T®, Course Author
Steven John brings more than 20 years of senior executive leadership in Global Mobility, including over a decade as President and CEO of HomeServices Relocation. He began his career as a CPA at Deloitte, then held executive roles across Fortune 500 companies before entering the relocation industry, where he led centralized client accounting and North American operations and advanced to senior executive roles across the industry.
General real estate experience gets you licensed.
Relocation expertise gets you referred.
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$149.00 · Self-paced · Enroll any time
Self-paced · 10 modules · GMA-RRP designation upon completion
Or ask your Relocation Director for enrollment information.
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