The PPRA wishes all candidates well for the PDE Take-Home Exam on 8 May 2025. Candidates affected by the system downtime may still write, provided payment is made by 8 May 2025

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  

Attention: All Principal and Non-Principal Property Practitioners:   This notice serves to remind all property practitioners of the critical requirements for participation in the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program for the 2025 cycle, particularly for those engaging external training providers.

The Board of the PPRA has passed a resolution requiring payment of administration fees for the various operations performed by the Regulator. Accordingly, the Registrations and Licensing Department wishes to advise all property practitioners that, as from 1st November 2024,   

This serves to advise all property practitioners who wrote the Professional Designation Examination (PDE) on the 15th of August 2024 that PDE results are now available and can be checked by logging on My PPRA portal.

The PPRA is pleased to inform all aspirant principal property practitioners or current non-principal property practitioners holding valid FFCs as non-principal property practitioners and have already completed or were granted an equivalency exemption from completing NQF 4&5 qualifications and have passed or were exempted from PDE 4 to proceed...

It has been brought to the attention of the PPRA that some property practitioners are allegedly involved in fraudulent activities which involve, amongst others, the unauthorised use of the electronic signatures of the Executive Manager and the Manager in the Education, Professionalisation & CPD Department in fictitious equivalency exemption...

  The PPRA, in partnership, with Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA) presents an inclusion-driven opportunity to recruit 50 disabled and non-disabled Previously Disadvantaged Candidate Property Practitioners in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng. The applicants will be enrolled to complete the Professional...

Business property practitioners with branches or subsidiaries are referred to the enclosed document for detailed guidelines on FFC registration and trading name  requirements.

Invitation for nomination of candidates for the National Department of Human Settlements’ (DHS) database for selection of the boards of directors  (Boards) for the Community Schemes Ombud Service (CSOS), Housing Development Agency (HDA), National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC), National Home Builders Registration Council...

The PPRA wishes to confirm, as per our previous notice, that the registration of all remaining industries regulated by the PPRA in terms of the Property Practitioners Act 22/2019 has commenced from 1st July 2024. Property practitioners are referred to the previous notice dated 15th August 2024 regarding the registration process.

The purpose of this Practice Directive is –  

The purpose of this document is to  answer frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme. The document is  designed to assist property practitioners and stakeholders in understanding the CPD requirements, processes, and benefits.

The PPRA wishes to advise that the registration of all remaining industries regulated by the PPRA in terms of the Property Practitioners Act 22/2019 has commenced from 1st July 2024

We have become aware that some of the FFCs issued during the 2025 renewal season are printing with the incorrect commencement year. Some are receiving a new FFC commencing 2024 

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.

This is a reminder for business property practitioners who are not in possession of trust account exemption letters and have a financial year end of 29 February 2024. Please ensure that your auditors submit your trust account audit reports to the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) on or before 31 August 2024

The purpose of this communication is to provide clarity to candidate property practitioners on what they will be required to do from 1 July 2024 regarding the logbook, practical training requirements and related issues.

Subsequent to the letters of demand that were sent from the 4th of June 2024, we have received a huge number of email queries from the Property Practitioners relating to their accounts and we are attending to each query to ensure that all queries are resolved

In June 2024, the PPRA issued Guidelines on the implementation of practical training modules. Therein, we highlighted the titles of 6 practical training modules necessary for completion by eligible candidate property practitioners which are in alignment with the modules of the Workplace Experience Module of the new NQF Level 4 Occupational...

We regret to advise that we are experiencing a system problem which is affecting online registration functions, including name reservations, logging a query, agent updates, and new registrations for firms and individuals. We are doing these manually as fast as possible, but there will be delays until the system is restored. For urgent matters...

On 20 August 2020 the Estate Agency Affairs Board advised of the EAAB BOARD’S DECISION TO AMEND THE EQUIVALENCY EXEMPTION MATRICES FOR NQF LEVELS 4 & 5 which was placed on the EAAB’s website and sent via a bulk email process.