Continuing Professional Development Scheme
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Scheme launched by the Property Management Services Authority in early 2022 sets criteria and requirements for property management practitioner licensees’participation in CPD activities / courses. The CPD Scheme aims to encourage licensees to participate in activities / courses organised or recognised by the Property Management Services Authority on a voluntary basis in order to acquire new knowledge and skills to handle daily property management work.
The Property Management Services Authority has started implementing the CPD Scheme on mandatory basis by stages after the end of the property management industry licensing regime transitional period (i.e. from 1 August 2023 onwards). Property management practitioner (Tier 1) licensees have to participate in the CPD Scheme on mandatory basis from 1 January 2024 onwards; and property management practitioner (Tier 2) licensees have to participate on mandatory basis from 1 January 2025 onwards.
CPD Year
The CPD Scheme of the Property Management Services Authority uses the calendar year (from 1 January to 31 December of each year) as the counting unit of years.
Recognised CPD Hours
PMP (Tier 1) and (Tier 2) licensees are required to attain at least 12 and 6 CPD hours respectively in each CPD year which meet the following requirements:
- At least 8 and 4 hours of “Core” activities / courses for PMP (Tier 1) and (Tier 2) licensees respectively;
- No more than 4 and 2 hours of “Unofficial” activities / courses for PMP (Tier 1) and (Tier 2) respectively; and
- At least 2 hours of activities / courses relating to law and regulations.
Licensees who are able to attain the number of CPD hours and meet all the requirements aforementioned will receive a certificate of recognition from the Property Management Services Authority.
How are Recognised CPD Hours calculated?
- Face-to-face activities / courses use a minimum of 1 hour as the counting unit. Online activities / courses use a minimum of 30 minutes as the counting unit.
- The maximum CPD hours for each activity are 5 hours. No maximum hours for attending academic courses.
- For courses spanning over more than one CPD year, the hours are counted based on the actual course attendance hours in the different CPD years.
Honour System
The Property Management Services Authority will accept in good faith all the information provided by licensees concerning the training activities / courses participated and the respective recognised CPD hours attained under the CPD Scheme. The Property Management Services Authority will, however, conduct random audit to ascertain if licensees have actually attended these activities / courses and attained the recognised CPD hours that they should have.
Imposing a condition on PMP licences
To enforce the aforementioned arrangements, from 1 August 2023 onwards, the Property Management Services Authority will, in accordance with the Property Management Services (Licensing and Related Matters) Regulation, impose a condition on all newly issued or renewed property management practitioner (Tier 1) licences (3-year validity), requiring the licensees concerned to fulfil the CPD participation requirement for each year (i.e. attaining at least 12 CPD hours) in the two immediate CPD years before the expiry year of their newly issued/renewed licence (i.e. the year of 2026 or thereafter).
As for PMP (Tier 2) licence holders, as mandatory participation will come into effect from 2025 onwards, a condition will be imposed on all property management practitioner (Tier 2) licences (3-year validity) issued or renewed within the period from 1 August to 31 December 2023, requiring the licensees concerned to fulfil the CPD participation requirement (i.e. attaining at least 6 CPD hours) in the CPD year (i.e. the year of 2025) before the expiry year (i.e. the year of 2026) of their newly issued or renewed licence. For property management practitioner (Tier 2) licences (3-year validity) issued or renewed from 2024 onwards, a condition will be imposed requiring the licensees concerned to fulfil the CPD participation requirement for each year (i.e. attaining at least 6 CPD hours) in the two immediate CPD Scheme years before the expiry year of their newly issued or renewed licence (i.e. the year of 2027 or thereafter).
