Which texts set the licensing rules for real estate agents in France?

1. The loi ALUR alone, with no earlier law
2. A FNAIM code of conduct that members sign
3. Each town hall's local business rules
4. The loi Hoguet of 2 January 1970 and its application decree of 20 July 1972

Which professional card does an agency need to broker property sales?

1. Carte T (transaction)
2. Carte G (gestion immobilière)
3. Carte S (syndic de copropriété)
4. No card: a business registration is enough

Who issues the carte professionnelle T?

1. The regional chamber of notaires
2. The FNAIM
3. The CCI of the place where the company has its head office
4. The town hall of each office

How long is a carte professionnelle valid?

1. 1 year
2. 5 years
3. 3 years
4. 10 years

You are hired as a salaried négociateur by an agency. What lets you negotiate on its behalf?

1. An attestation d'habilitation obtained from the CCI by the card holder
2. Your own carte T in your name
3. Your employment contract alone
4. An RSAC registration

Who asks the CCI for a collaborator's attestation d'habilitation?

1. The collaborator, in a personal application
2. The notaire of the first sale
3. The network's training manager, in any CCI
4. The card holder the collaborator works for

You join a network as an agent commercial immobilier. Which set of documents must you have before negotiating?

1. RSAC registration only
2. RSAC registration, an agent commercial contract, a valid attestation d'habilitation and your own RCP insurance
3. A carte T in your own name and nothing else
4. A diploma and a business card printed by the network

A buyer offers to hand you, an agent commercial, his deposit cheque in your name. What is the rule?

1. Accept, if you give him a receipt
2. Refuse: an agent commercial cannot receive or hold client funds
3. Accept, if the amount is under 5% of the price
4. Accept, then pass it to the seller

How many hours of continuing training must a card holder or négociateur complete over the 3-year period of a card?

Over each 3-year period, which two topics must the continuing training cover for at least 2 hours each?

1. Ethics (déontologie) and non-discrimination in access to housing
2. Anti-money laundering and data protection
3. Tax law and accounting
4. Negotiation and digital marketing

Under the CCI Bretagne fee schedule, an attestation d'habilitation for a collaborator costs 55 €. An agency onboards 4 new agents commerciaux. What does it pay, in EUR?

How many months before its expiry must the renewal of a carte professionnelle be requested?

A candidate has no diploma. How much salaried experience in a Hoguet activity with a card holder does he need to show professional aptitude?

1. 10 years, or 4 years in a management (cadre) role
2. 3 years in any sales job
3. 1 year with a network
4. No experience: a short online course is enough

When can a carte T holder skip the garantie financière?

1. When the agency has fewer than 3 staff
2. When it only sells new-build property
3. Never: every carte T needs one
4. When it declares on honour that it holds no funds, effects or securities for clients

What must an agency have before it starts negotiating a sale?

1. A verbal agreement with the seller
2. A written mandate with the legal mentions, such as duration, fees and who pays them
3. A signed compromis de vente
4. The seller's last tax notice

What does the DGCCRF expect from an agency's registre des mandats?

1. Loose sheets, as long as they are kept in a folder
2. A proper register listing every mandate in chronological order
3. Pencil entries that can be corrected
4. Only the exclusive mandates

In an exclusive mandate, for how long at most can the exclusivity be irrevocable?

1. 1 month
2. 12 months
3. As long as the contract says
4. 3 months

Which display of agency fees meets the ALUR rules and the arrêté of 10 January 2017?

1. Fees shown TTC, stating who pays, in the window, inside the agency and on the website
2. Fees shown HT, inside the agency only
3. Fees given by phone on request
4. Only the buyer's share, on the website

Which fee schedule is compliant since 1 April 2022?

1. One that says 'fees on quote only'
2. One that shows only the buyer's share
3. One that states a maximum tariff, TTC, and who pays
4. One that shows a minimum fee and no maximum

In its 2019 survey the DGCCRF checked 2,175 agency establishments. What share had anomalies, in %?

A non-EU national holds a 'salarié' residence permit and wants to start as a self-employed agent commercial with a network. What do you tell him?

1. That permit does not allow self-employment; he needs one that does, such as a carte de résident, a passeport talent créateur d'entreprise or an entrepreneur / profession libérale card
2. He can start at once, the network handles everything
3. He only needs RSAC registration
4. He must first pass a French language exam at the CCI

A Spanish citizen living in Lyon wants to become an agent commercial as a micro-entrepreneur. Does she need a residence permit?

1. Yes, a passeport talent
2. Yes, a one-year entrepreneur card
3. Yes, unless she has lived in France 5 years
4. No: EU citizens can register and work freely, like a French national