Colibri Real Estate Review (2026): Pass Rates, Real Cost, and the Catch
Aug 27, 2026
Colibri Real Estate shows you a struck through price on every course page. In Texas the top package reads $748.34, crossed out, next to $449. That $748.34 is not a price anyone has ever paid. Divide $449 by 0.6 and you get $748.33. The anchor is the sale price run backwards through the discount.
I checked seven states on 27 August 2026. Six do this. The 40 percent off is not a sale, it is the price, and the code is printed on the page so you never even hunt for it.
That matters less on its own than for how it teaches you to read the rest of the site, including a pass rate the company pointedly does not publish and a guarantee that is void in Florida. Below: what Colibri costs in seven states, what two regulators recorded, and every condition on the money back promise. I sell houses and I run real estate coaching, so read the next box first.
Where I stand
I am Saad Jamil. Licensed since 2007, more than 800 homes and over $500 million closed in Northern Virginia, still selling today. I have never taken a Colibri course, so nothing here reviews what it feels like to sit through the material.
I have no affiliate link, no commission, no sponsorship and no free account with Colibri Real Estate or any company named here. Nothing on this page pays me whichever way you decide. That is worth saying loudly, because as you will see further down, almost every other Colibri review you will find is paid.
Every figure below names its source and the day I read it. Prices move.
Quick answer
Colibri is the rebranded Real Estate Express, owned by Colibri Group, majority held by Gridiron Capital since 2019. It has among the widest state coverage in the country and its real prices are competitive: at the cheapest tier on 27 August 2026, $99 in Florida and California, $143.40 in Virginia, $299 in Texas.
The catch sits in three places. The struck through prices are back computed from the sale price in six of seven states. The cheapest tier does not qualify for the Pass or Don't Pay guarantee at all, and that guarantee is void in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey and Tennessee. And access expires six months from the day you buy, not the day you start, with a $75 fee to reopen it.
On pass rates, be careful with anything you read. Colibri publishes none, and actively warns you against schools that do. Virginia's regulator recorded 128 of 253 Colibri candidates passing the salesperson state portion in 2024, against a state average of 43 percent. That is above average and well short of the 75 to 80 percent that circulates in affiliate content nobody has ever sourced.
In this guide
- The struck through price is arithmetic, not a price
- What Colibri actually costs, in seven states
- What each tier adds, and why the cheapest one is a trap
- Price it for your own state
- What two state regulators actually recorded
- Colibri publishes no pass rate, and tells you not to trust ones that do
- Pass or Don't Pay, condition by condition
- Six months from purchase, and the $75 door
- The schools you might be comparing against each other
- What students say where Colibri cannot solicit them
- Who should buy it, and who should not
- Frequently asked questions
The struck through price is arithmetic, not a price
Every Colibri state page shows four packages, each with a crossed out number beside the price you pay. It is the oldest device in retail and it usually means this was the price, now it is less. Here it does not. In six of the seven states I checked, the crossed out number is exactly the sale price divided by 0.6. It was generated from the discount, not discounted from a real price.
| State | Price shown | Struck through as | Price divided by 0.6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas, The Basics | $299.00 | $498.34 | $498.33 |
| Texas, Exam Preparation | $349.00 | $581.67 | $581.67 |
| Florida, The Basics | $99.00 | $165.00 | $165.00 |
| New York, The Basics | $199.00 | $331.67 | $331.67 |
| Georgia, The Basics | $169.00 | $281.67 | $281.67 |
| Illinois, The Basics | $209.00 | $348.34 | $348.33 |
Read from Colibri's own state pricing pages on 27 August 2026. The one cent differences are rounding on Colibri's side.
Round sale prices, ragged list prices. Real regular prices are round, because a human sets them. $498.34 is not a number anyone chose. It is $299 run backwards.
Virginia is the instructive exception. There the list prices are round, $239, $339, $409 and $519, and the sale prices are the ragged ones, exactly 60 percent of list. Virginia is priced the normal way round, which tells you the other six are not, and that two pricing templates are running on the same site at once.
The sale never ends
Three discount codes were live on Colibri's own properties the same day. LEARN40 and NEWSTART both take 40 percent off pre-licensing, doing the identical job. STUDY20 takes 20 percent off exam prep. None publishes an expiry, and LEARN40 is printed on the state pages, so the discounted figure is simply the price you see.
What this actually costs you
Two things. First, the reference price in your head is wrong before you start comparing, which is the entire point of an anchor. Second, and more concretely, HousingWire's Florida schools article, updated 18 June 2026, reports Colibri's Florida packages as starting at $165 and topping out at $448.34. Those are the anchors. The prices on Colibri's Florida page that day were $99 to $269. A major trade outlet is publishing the fake numbers as if they were the real ones, so anyone comparing schools using that article is comparing Colibri at nearly double.
In my view none of this makes Colibri a bad school. Permanent discounting is ordinary in online education and the prices you actually pay are competitive. It does mean you should ignore every struck through figure on the site and compare only what appears on the right of the slash.
What Colibri actually costs, in seven states
There is no national Colibri price and any article giving you one has not looked. The same package name varies threefold between states.
| State | Hours required | The Basics | Exam Preparation | Exam Prep Plus | Ultimate Learning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 63 | $99 | $149 | $189 | $269 |
| California | 135 | $99 | $149 | $189 | $269 |
| Virginia | 60 | $143.40 | $203.40 | $245.40 | $311.40 |
| Georgia | 75 | $169 | $229 | $279 | $329 |
| New York | 77 | $199 | $269 | $309 | $379 |
| Illinois | 75 | $209 | $269 | $319 | $369 |
| Texas | 180 | $299 | $349 | $389 | $449 |
Prices displayed on Colibri's own state pages on 27 August 2026, after the LEARN40 code that is printed on those pages. Illinois also lists a Livestream option at $399.
Read the first two rows together. Florida and California carry identical price points at all four tiers, but Florida requires 63 hours and California requires 135. You pay the same for a course more than twice the size, which tells you the price is set by market, not content.
Texas is the outlier at the top, and there the hours justify it: 180 is the heaviest requirement in the country. Even so, The Basics at $299 in Texas against $99 in Florida is a 202 percent premium.
If you are in Virginia, I priced every state approved provider side by side in the Virginia licence course comparison, which is a more useful document than this one for that specific decision.
What each tier adds, and why the cheapest one is a trap
Four tiers, same ladder in every state. What separates them is not obvious from the names.
| Tier | What it adds over the one below | Guarantee eligible |
|---|---|---|
| The Basics | The state required coursework, instructor support, an AI tutor and narrated audio. No exam prep of any kind, no printed book. | No |
| Exam Preparation | Simulated exams, flashcards and the Readiness Tracker. | Yes |
| Exam Preparation Plus | Live instructor question and answer sessions, plus the Exam Cram webinar series, six webinars on the Georgia and Illinois pages. | Yes |
| Ultimate Learning | A printed textbook and the Career Booster Pack, described on the Georgia page as 20 or more video tutorials, checklists and action plans. | Yes |
Read from Colibri's Texas, Georgia and Illinois pages on 27 August 2026. Ultimate Learning is flagged Most Popular in every state I checked.
The important line is the first one. The Basics does not qualify for the Pass or Don't Pay guarantee, because the guarantee requires a package containing exam prep. The tier Colibri advertises as its entry price is structurally excluded from the promise Colibri advertises hardest.
That is not hidden, it is in the guarantee terms. But it is not on the pricing table where you decide, so a buyer picking the cheapest option to save money opts out of the safety net without being told at the point of choosing.
The upgrade is cheaper than the product
In Texas, moving from The Basics at $299 to Exam Preparation at $349 costs $50. Colibri sells that same exam prep standalone for $115 list, or $92 with the STUDY20 code. The bundled route costs roughly half the standalone route for the same thing.
That is a straightforward argument for never buying The Basics. Fifty dollars buys exam prep and the guarantee together, and it is another sign the standalone list prices function mainly as anchors.
One thing to know before buying exam prep separately: Colibri's exam prep runs on CompuCram, and Colibri Group owns CompuCram. Buying both is buying the same engine twice from one company, which I covered in the practice exam guide.
Price it for your own state
Seven states, four tiers, the real prices Colibri displayed on 27 August 2026. It adds the charges that are not on the pricing table and tells you whether your tier is covered by the guarantee. Nothing is sent anywhere.
What Colibri would actually charge you
What you would pay
The struck through number
Cost per required hour
Guarantee
Prices read from Colibri's own state pages on 27 August 2026 and they change without notice. The extension fee and the proctoring fee are Colibri's published figures. Your state licence application and exam fees are separate and are not included here.
Two things to watch. Set both Florida and California to the same tier and the price is identical while the cost per required hour is not: $4.27 an hour in Florida against $1.99 in California on Ultimate Learning, because Florida asks 63 hours and California 135. And if you select Florida, the guarantee reads void whatever you buy.
What two state regulators actually recorded
This is the only part of a school review worth anything, because it is the only number the school does not control. Two states publish per school results and Colibri appears in both.
Virginia, from the regulator's own file
The Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation publishes pass rates by approved school. Its 2024 report, covering the full calendar year, lists Colibri Real Estate, LLC:
| Virginia 2024, salesperson | Tested | Passed | Rate | State average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State portion | 253 | 128 | 50.4% | 43.0% |
| National portion | 277 | 142 | 51.2% | 36.4% |
Virginia DPOR, Real Estate 2024 Pass Rates by Schools, read 27 August 2026. Statewide: 9,347 tested and 4,020 passed on the state portion, 7,178 tested and 2,617 passed on the national. The rates above are as DPOR prints them. On the raw counts the state portion works out at 50.6 rather than 50.4 percent, a rounding difference in the regulator's own file.
Read fairly, it says two things at once. Colibri beats the Virginia average by 7.4 points on the state portion and 14.8 on the national, which is a real result. It also says roughly half of Colibri's Virginia candidates failed.
Texas, second hand but triple checked
Texas publishes provider pass rates too, but the Texas Real Estate Commission blocks automated access, so I could not read the regulator's own page. Three separate compilations of TREC data agree on the raw counts:
303 passes out of 534 exams, 56.74 percent, for December 2023 to November 2025, against a Texas statewide average of 56.12 percent.
That is 0.62 points above average. In my view that is noise, not a difference. On this evidence Colibri in Texas is an ordinary school by outcome.
Two cautions before anyone quotes these at me
The Virginia and Texas figures cover different years, exams and denominators, and neither is established as first time takers only. Do not average them.
The Texas sample is also small. Colibri had 534 Texas exam takers across two years, against Champions School of Real Estate's 15,547. A 534 sample moves around. Treat 56.74 percent as a reading, not a measurement.
The 75 to 80 percent that is going around
You will find review pages stating that Colibri reports first time pass rates between 75 and 80 percent for students who complete their courses. One of them, updated February 2026, puts it exactly that way. No source, no link, no period, no study.
And here is the part that matters: I could not find Colibri publishing that figure, or any pass rate, anywhere. I checked the homepage, the comparison page, the guarantee page and seven state pages. So this is not a company overstating its results. It is a number circulating in affiliate content, attributed to a company that never said it, running 20 to 30 points above what two regulators recorded.
If you see it, that page did not check. For what happens when a school does publish a claim, I put AceableAgent's 91 percent against the same Virginia file in the AceableAgent review.
Colibri publishes no pass rate, and tells you not to trust ones that do
This deserves its own section because it is unusual and because I think Colibri is partly right.
On its school comparison page, Colibri tells buyers to be wary of schools that publish their own pass rates, and publishes none of its own. Where competitors advertise 91 and 95 percent with no methodology, declining to join in is defensible, and I would rather a company say nothing than invent something.
Where it stops being admirable is what fills that space instead. Colibri's site displays a 4.5 out of 5 with no platform named and no count, on a page warning you about unverified numbers, and its reviews page is a curated testimonial widget whose URL slug calls the content raving fans. Declining to publish a pass rate while publishing an unsourced star rating is having it both ways.
The guarantee then does the work the pass rate would have done: the reassurance a published rate would give, without the accountability of a number anyone can check. Which brings us to what it says.
Pass or Don't Pay, condition by condition
Colibri's California page puts it plainly: pass the California real estate exam on your first try, or your original purchase price is on us. The FAQ goes further and says the guarantee ensures you will pass on the first attempt. Here is everything that has to be true for it to pay out.
| Condition | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Buy a package containing exam prep | The Basics is out, and so is anyone who bought the cheapest option to save money. |
| Complete three simulated exams at 80 percent or higher | You must prove you were ready before you can be reimbursed for not being ready. |
| Sit the exam within 30 days of finishing the prep | Miss the window by a day and the guarantee is gone, whatever the reason. |
| Email your first try results within 30 days of failing | A second 30 day clock, from the worst day of the process. |
| Not live in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey or Tennessee | Colibri says state law prohibits it. Florida is one of the largest licensing markets in the country. |
Read from Colibri's Pass or Don't Pay page, its FAQ article and its state pricing footnotes on 27 August 2026.
Condition two is the one to sit with. To claim a guarantee that you will pass, you must first demonstrate you can pass three practice exams at 80 percent. Anyone who fails after clearing that bar had a bad day. Anyone who never cleared it, which is a large share of those who fail, was never eligible.
That is not a trick. It is a reasonable anti abuse rule and every guarantee in this category has one. But the promise is narrower than the headline, and the headline is what is printed in large type on the pricing page.
Three things the terms do not say
Reading the guarantee page and refund policy together, some questions go unanswered:
- Whether you get back what you paid or the list price. Given the anchoring above, not a small question.
- Whether the printed textbook is deducted. The refund policy says physical books and shipping are non refundable and that $50 is withheld from any refund on a package containing a book. Ultimate Learning always contains one. The guarantee page promises the cost of your package back and does not mention the deduction.
- Whether broker exam failures count. Broker courses are marketed separately and the terms do not say.
There is also a straight contradiction between two Colibri pages. The guarantee page and the state footnotes exclude four states. The refund policy excludes five, adding Louisiana. A Louisiana buyer reading the guarantee page would not learn it does not apply to them.
What the guarantee is not
It refunds money paid to Colibri. Nothing reimburses your state exam fee, licence application fee, fingerprinting, or the cost of retaking. Those are the costs a failed attempt actually imposes, and you carry all of them.
Six months from purchase, and the $75 door
Course access lasts six months, and the clock starts when you pay, not when you start studying. Buy in January, get busy, open the course in April, and you have two months left. For a 180 hour Texas course taken around a full time job that is a real problem, not a theoretical one.
Extensions are sold. Colibri lists 7, 30 and 60 day options and says it cannot offer them in every state. The only extension fee published anywhere on the site is $75 for 30 days.
| If you bought | You paid | One 30 day extension is |
|---|---|---|
| The Basics, Florida or California | $99 | 75.8% of the course price |
| The Basics, Virginia | $143.40 | 52.3% |
| The Basics, Texas | $299 | 25.1% |
| Ultimate Learning, Texas | $449 | 16.7% |
Extension fee from Colibri's own 30 day pre-license course extension page, read 27 August 2026. Percentages are my arithmetic on the prices in the table above.
Buy the cheapest Florida package and one missed deadline costs three quarters of the course price. That is the most common theme in the negative reviews further down.
Colibri's position when access lapses is on record in its own words. Answering a Better Business Bureau complaint on 8 May 2026 about a $1,435.97 package, it wrote that because the subscription term had expired, access to the program, including course materials and completion certificates, was no longer available. Certificates included. Download your proof the day you finish.
Colibri also charges $15 per exam for online proctoring where a state requires a proctored final, naming Alabama, DC, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia. Small, but not in the package price.
The schools you might be comparing against each other
Colibri Real Estate is one brand inside Colibri Group, majority owned by Gridiron Capital since May 2019, with Neuberger Berman taking a minority stake on 27 November 2023. That would be trivia except for how many of the alternatives are the same company.
- Colibri Real Estate, pre-licensing, the subject of this review, formerly Real Estate Express.
- McKissock Learning, continuing education and post-licensing. Calls Colibri its sister school.
- CompuCram, exam prep, and the engine behind Colibri's own exam prep product.
- Gold Coast Schools, Florida. Acquired The Climer School in 2021, so two Florida rivals share an owner.
- Allied Real Estate Schools, California. Superior School of Real Estate, North Carolina. Rockwell Institute, Washington. Key Realty School, Nevada.
- Hondros Education Group, Ohio, merged into Colibri Group in late 2019.
- Arizona School of Real Estate and the Hogan School, Arizona.
- Institute for Luxury Home Marketing, designations.
Compiled from Colibri Group and brand pages, read 27 August 2026. For the avoidance of doubt, 360training is not a Colibri company.
The practical version: if you are in Florida weighing Colibri against Gold Coast, or in California against Allied, or in Arizona against the Arizona School of Real Estate, you are choosing between two products with one owner. That does not make either bad. It does mean the comparison is not the one you thought you were making.
North Carolina, where Colibri sells you a different company
Colibri's North Carolina page carries no Colibri prices and no Colibri tiers. It routes you to Superior School of Real Estate, a Colibri Group brand. You arrive at Colibri and leave with a different logo, still inside the same group. The pattern runs the other way too: McKissock sells no pre-licensing at all and refers those buyers to Colibri.
I mapped the whole ownership structure across eight schools and six owners in the online real estate school comparison, which is the right page to read if you are still choosing a school rather than deciding about this one.
What students say where Colibri cannot solicit them
There is a clean split in the review record. Where the school or an affiliate controls collection the score is high. Where neither does, it is not.
| Where | Score | Reviews | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot, colibrirealestate.com | about 3.0 | 3 | Unclaimed, all flagged unprompted |
| Trustpilot, realestateexpress.com | 2.9 | 14 | Legacy brand, 72 percent one star |
| ConsumerAffairs | 1.6 | 14 | 79 percent one star, none since Sept 2023 |
| Better Business Bureau reviews | 1.0 | 3 | Beside an A plus accredited grade |
| AgentAdvice | 4.15 | 86 | Affiliate page with a promo code, all 2020 to 2022 |
| The Close | 4.8 | editorial | Discloses partner compensation |
All read 27 August 2026. For scale, The CE Shop carries about 11,000 Trustpilot reviews on the same category page. Colibri has three.
Be careful what you conclude. Three reviews is not a verdict and 14 is barely better. The honest reading is not that Colibri is rated 1.6, it is that there is almost no independent consumer evidence at all, and the abundant evidence sits on paid pages.
What the negative reviews are actually about
"These people purposely design it so you run out of time and have to keep paying to keep access to the information."
Trustpilot, one star, 15 January 2022
"The contracts course is taught using a DECADE OLD contract... I called the REX help line and said that the content was far, far out of date. The reply? We're still accredited with Colorado, so it must not matter."
ConsumerAffairs, one star, a Colorado student who completed the coursework, 18 May 2021
"We all joined class on 02/01 without an instructor. Then the instructor told a student in the class that it was cancelled."
ConsumerAffairs, one star, a Pennsylvania student on the Live course, 3 February 2022
The themes are consistent: the access clock and extension fees, content reviewers say was out of date, support that did not answer. Those are allegations by the people who wrote them and I have verified no individual account.
Two patterns in the complaint record
Across the Better Business Bureau files for Colibri and its sibling McKissock, two things recur often enough to name.
Certificates rejected by regulators. Complaints describe a state refusing 75 completed continuing education hours over incorrect approval numbers in October 2025, an Oregon certificate carrying the wrong approval number in December 2025, and a California submission rejected twice. McKissock's own response to a November 2023 complaint concedes it failed to get its 2023 mandatory core course approved for Louisiana.
Auto renewal billing. Four visible McKissock complaints concern unexpected recurring charges, one describing $1,036 billed repeatedly until the customer cancelled the card. Colibri launched a nationwide auto billing continuing education membership on 12 August 2025, and its public page says nothing about renewal or cancellation.
One fair note the other way: the record resolves clean because the company refunds on escalation. Several end in a full refund. A tidy file reflects a company that pays up when pushed, not one that avoided the problem.
Why every other review you find says 4.8
Every high ranking Colibri review I could find is monetised. HousingWire discloses a commission and an exclusive discount code, and on the same page discloses a promotional agreement with The CE Shop, a school it ranks Colibri against. The Close discloses partner compensation, and its sub scores contradict its headline: 4.8 overall, course features 3.1, help and support 3.0. RISMedia announced a commercial partnership with Colibri in October 2023.
A widely recycled figure of 4.4 from 768 reviews traces to no auditable platform I could find. The nearest sourced number is 4.1 from 252 on Indeed, an employer review site rating what it is like to work there, not study there.
In my view that is the real finding here. Not that Colibri is bad, but that the consensus you meet in search results was bought, and the small amount of unpaid evidence points the other way.
Who should buy it, and who should not
I have not sat through a Colibri course, so this judges the offer rather than the teaching. On the offer, the case is better than this article's tone probably suggests.
The genuine case for it
- The real prices are competitive. $99 in Florida and California, $143.40 in Virginia. Ignore the anchors and those numbers stand up against anyone.
- Coverage is among the widest in the country. In a state the well marketed newcomers do not serve, Colibri is often there and they are not.
- It beats the state average where a regulator counted. Virginia 2024, by 7.4 points on the state portion and 14.8 on the national, from a source Colibri does not control.
- It does not publish a fake pass rate. Where competitors advertise 91 percent with no methodology, declining to invent a number is worth something.
- It refunds when pushed. Escalated disputes in the complaint record end in full refunds rather than a fight.
Buy it if
- You are ready to start now. The clock is the main risk and it disappears if you begin the week you buy.
- Your state is one where Colibri is priced low. Florida and California at $99, Virginia at $143.40. At those numbers the downside is small.
- You may license in more than one state. Coverage is the strongest part of the offer.
- You will buy the second tier or higher. Fifty dollars in Texas buys exam prep and guarantee eligibility together.
Do not buy it if
- The guarantee is why you were buying and you are in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey or Tennessee. It is void in all four. If the safety net is the reason, the reason does not exist.
- You know you will study slowly. Six months from purchase, and $75 to reopen the door. Buy from someone whose clock starts when you do.
- You are in Texas and shopping on outcome. On TREC data Colibri sits at 56.74 percent against a 56.12 percent average, and AceableAgent at 65.81 percent on a sample sixteen times larger. Hold it loosely, but it does not favour Colibri.
- You were about to buy The Basics. No exam prep, no guarantee. Either go up a tier or buy elsewhere.
- You need proof of completion later. Colibri's own position is that expired access takes your certificates with it.
What I would actually do
Pick your state on the calculator above, buy the second tier rather than the first, and start the same week. That removes most of what is wrong with this offer for about fifty dollars.
Then ignore the star ratings in both directions. Three Trustpilot reviews cannot condemn a school and a paid 4.8 cannot vouch for one. What survives scrutiny is a competitively priced, widely available school with average to slightly above average measured outcomes and an aggressive commercial structure around the product.
And keep the licence in perspective. The course is the cheapest part of this. Nobody fails out of the business for want of a better pre-licence provider. What comes after it is where the money and the difficulty are, which is the part I spend my time on with real estate coaching for agents in their first two years.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Colibri Real Estate cost?
It depends on your state. On 27 August 2026 the cheapest package was $99 in Florida and California, $143.40 in Virginia, $169 in Georgia, $199 in New York, $209 in Illinois and $299 in Texas. The top tier ran $269 to $449. Ignore the struck through prices: in six of those seven states they are the sale price divided by 0.6.
What is Colibri Real Estate's pass rate?
Colibri does not publish one, and its own comparison page warns buyers to be wary of schools that do. Two regulators have counted. Virginia DPOR recorded 128 of 253 Colibri candidates passing the salesperson state portion in 2024, 50.4 percent, against a 43.0 percent state average. Texas TREC data compiled by three separate sources gives 303 of 534, 56.74 percent, against a 56.12 percent state average.
Is the 75 to 80 percent pass rate figure real?
I could not trace it to Colibri or to any regulator. It appears in affiliate review content attributed to Colibri without a source, a period or a sample size, and it sits roughly 20 to 30 points above what Virginia and Texas actually recorded. Treat any page repeating it as a page that did not check.
Is Colibri Real Estate legit?
Yes. It is a state approved provider in most of the country, formerly Real Estate Express, owned by Colibri Group with Gridiron Capital holding a majority since 2019, and accredited with the Better Business Bureau at an A plus grade. The criticisms here are about pricing presentation, access terms and guarantee conditions, not about whether the school is real or its courses count.
How does the Pass or Don't Pay guarantee work?
You must buy a package containing exam prep, complete three simulated exams at 80 percent or higher, sit the state exam within 30 days of finishing the prep, and email your first try results within 30 days of failing. The cheapest tier does not qualify. It is unavailable in Florida, Michigan, New Jersey and Tennessee, and Colibri's refund policy adds Louisiana while the guarantee page does not. It refunds money paid to Colibri only, not state exam or application fees.
How long do you get to finish a Colibri course?
Six months, counted from the day you purchase rather than the day you start. Extensions of 7, 30 and 60 days are sold, not in every state. The only fee published is $75 for 30 days, more than three quarters of the price of the cheapest Florida or California package.
Who owns Colibri Real Estate?
Colibri Group, majority owned by Gridiron Capital since May 2019, with Neuberger Berman taking a minority stake in November 2023. The same group owns McKissock, CompuCram, Gold Coast Schools, Allied Real Estate Schools, Superior School of Real Estate, Hondros, the Arizona School of Real Estate, Hogan School, Rockwell Institute, Key Realty School and the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Several are schools buyers treat as Colibri's rivals.
About the author
Saad Jamil has been licensed since 2007 and sells with Samson Properties in Chantilly, Virginia. He has closed more than 800 homes and over $500 million in volume, ranks in the top 1 percent of Northern Virginia agents, and holds licences in Virginia, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. His transaction record is on his Zillow agent profile. He has never taken a Colibri course, has no affiliate or commercial relationship with any school named here, and runs Jamil Academy, a coaching programme for working agents.
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