INDUSTRY body FICCI and real estate consultant JLL India have pitched for formal training and certification courses for property brokers to upgrade their skills, enabling them to help clients in taking informed decisions. FICCI and JLL India have jointly come out with a white paper titled '(Re)Shaping Real Estate Professionals', which highlighted that the real estate agent registration grew from 33,270 in January 2019, to 71,514 in January 2023, across the country under the Real Estate (Development and Regulations) Act, 2016, known as RERA law. A delegation led by Vineet Nanda, Chairman - Regional Urban Infra Committee, FICCI, recently presented the white paper to Arun Kumar Gupta, ACS, Town & Country Planning, Haryana, according to a statement. Nanda, Director Sales & MarketingofrealtyfirmKrisumi Corporation, briefed Gupta about the education programme available currently to skill brokers, also called as channel partners.

 

“Presently, despite the RERA, only 30 per cent of the channel partners are registered across India,” Nanda pointed out. “The team members associatedwiththechannelpartners are not skilled. Contrary to this, allotherinvestmentinstruments such as stock market, commodities market, financial markets have to take certification courses to become acquainted with the market and its regulatoryenvironment,”heobserved. Nanda recommended that the State Government should further regulate the environment by spreading the education programme and tie-up with universities that offer certified courses.