Description

3.5 CE

A certificate will be awarded to students upon completion of the course by the licensed provider.

Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing helps real estate professionals interrupt stereotypical thinking so they can avoid fair housing pitfalls and provide equal professional service to every customer or client. Participants will examine the history of bias in real estate, learn about the mind science of identity, study how implicit bias can result in fair housing violations, and engage in interactive exercises to enhance communication skills and business relationships with clients of all backgrounds.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:

 • Describe the history of bias and discrimination in real estate to understand how neighborhoods became segregated and appreciate the challenges many consumers still face because of their identities.

 • Explain how implicit bias may result in violations of Fair Housing laws and industry ethics.

 • Identify interventions to prevent implicit bias, identity anxiety, and stereotype threat from influencing behavior so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. 

• Increase personal motivation to confront these phenomena in their business and community

Instructor Information

Christina Cardone 

Christina Cardone has been a REALTOR for 20 years. Christina works at Keller Williams Real Estate in Media with her family team. She specializes in working with Residential Buyers and Sellers, Seniors, Distressed Properties and Rentals. She was Regional Short Sale Director with Significa Short Sales for 3 years.

She is currently a Director at the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, and a past chair of PAR’s Standard Forms Oversight Committee (2020). Christina has previously been a Director for the National Association of Realtors as well as her local association. 

Christina is also a licensed instructor for several CE and designation courses including SFR (Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource), ABR (Accredited Buyer Representative), AHWD (At Home with Diversity), Bias Override, and SRES (Senior Real Estate Specialist).

In her spare time Christina enjoys knitting, gardening, and riding her e-bike.