Professional Designation Examination (PDE)

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority is proud to announce a landmark reform of the education and training framework for property practitioners in South Africa. 

The PPRA reminds all property practitioners required to complete the PDE that, should they foresee and/or be unable to sit for the examination due to valid reasons, they must follow the prescribed postponement procedures.  Postponement requests must be submitted in writing at least 14 days prior to the scheduled examination registered for and where unforeseen circumstances apply,…

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) wishes to inform all property practitioners that during the PDE 4 and PDE 5 examinations held on 14 May 2026, the PPRA Website experienced technical difficulties, rendering the Website inaccessible. As a result, some examination candidates were unable to download the examination question papers and consequently could not undertake the examination. …

The Take-Home Exam format allows the Candidate to download the exam and complete the exam at his/her own pace within the time allocated. The PDE 4 and PDE 5 Exam Papers will be available 08h00 on Thursday, 14 May 2026, for download from the Homepage of the PPRA Website (www.theppra.org.za). The Exam Paper is in MS Word…

This serves to notify all affected property practitioners who received disqualification notices of the following important steps: Upon receipt of the notice, affected property practitioners must immediately and/or within sixty (60) days of the receipt of disqualification notice, submit an application requesting an extension of six (6) months to rectify and be fully compliant. The application must…

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) is pleased to inform all property practitioners of an important development regarding the legacy real estate qualification.Download the full notice below

This serves to inform all real-estate property practitioners (estate agents) aged 60 years and above that effective immediately this type of exemption is no longer available and no applications will be accepted in relation thereto.

The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) wishes to inform all prospective exam candidates that the registration/enrolment period for the upcoming Professional Designation Examination (PDE), scheduled for 08 May 2025, has been extended.

Examination dates commencing from March 2020 through to February 2021 are available for online bookings for the Professional Designation Examination for both PDE4 & PDE5. PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATION EXAMINATION (PDE) DATES PDE OPENS ON THE MYEAAB PORTAL PDE CLOSING DATE (THIS CLOSING DATE APPLIES TO BOTH THE MYEAAB PORTAL APPLICATIONS AND PAYMENTS) 05 March 2020 13 January 2020…