Real Property Administrator

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The Real Property Administrator or RPA designation is a professional designation offered by the Building Owners and Manager's Institute. Candidates for the RPA designation must complete a total of eight academic courses and must have completed three years of verifiable property management work. The academic courses are offered online, as a self-paced textbook study, and in weekend accelerated courses. The eight courses consist of the following six mandatory courses:

  1. Budgeting and Accounting
  2. Real Estate Investment and Finance
  3. Environmental Health and Safety Issues
  4. Law and Risk Management
  5. The Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems, Part I
  6. The Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems, Part II

In addition to the six mandatory courses, an elective must be chosen from the following three courses:

  • Leasing and Marketing for Property Managers
  • Fundamentals of Real Property Administration
  • Asset Management

Finally, the Ethics Is Good Business ShortCourseTM must also be taken.

The three years of work experience must occur at a property 40,000 square feet or larger.

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