Nebraska Requires Written Property Condition Disclosure

Nebraska has required written seller property condition disclosure since 1994, and the NREC tests the delivery timing and damages window with precision that generic courses never reach.

Seller disclosure deadlines, agency policy requirements, and advertising rules each have Nebraska-specific wrinkles that the NREC tests directly, and that generic study materials either simplify or ignore entirely.

The NREC governs real estate licensing in Nebraska. The Pearson VUE exam tests 50 state specific questions alongside 80 national questions, with a minimum passing score of 75%. All three sections below reflect areas where Nebraska law diverges from common national-course assumptions and where candidates consistently leave points behind.

Seller Property Condition

Nebraska's seller disclosure law has been on the books since 1994 and the Pearson VUE exam tests its specific delivery timing and damages window with precision that trips up candidates who confuse it with closing-stage disclosure from other states. The disclosure goes before the contract, not with it. Not after it. Before it. That sequence has been on the NREC exam since 1994 and it will be on yours too.

Nebraska has required written seller property condition disclosure since 1994 for all 1-4 unit residential sales, delivered before any binding contract, students confuse "before contract" with "at closing" and miss the one-year damages filing window.

The exam tests when the disclosure must be delivered, what property types are covered, and the one-year window for a buyer to bring a damages claim. Each of those is a distinct question risk.

Statutory Agency Law

Nebraska requires a firm-wide written policy on agency relationships before any brokerage activity can begin, a prerequisite that most national study materials never mention and that the Pearson VUE exam tests directly.

Nebraska's statutory agency law governs how brokerage relationships must be disclosed and documented. South Dakota uses mandatory agency disclosure forms with similar intent, and Iowa requires agency disclosure at first meaningful contact. Each state's statute spells out different steps that agents must follow.

Every designated broker must adopt a written policy identifying all agency relationships the firm will offer, and written agreements must be in place before any brokerage activity, students who skip the written-policy-first requirement get the sequence wrong.

Know the written policy requirement, the timing of when written brokerage agreements must be in place, and what happens if an agent begins work before the required agreement exists.

Nebraska's written-policy-first requirement is a sequence test. The NREC expects candidates to know what must exist at the firm level before any individual brokerage activity can legally begin.

Licensee Advertising

Nebraska's advertising rules go beyond the general principle that brokerage name must appear. Team names have their own naming requirements, and franchise name display has rules that other states don't impose. The exam doesn't reward overthinking: the broker's registered name goes on everything, team names need "team" or "group," and those two rules together are worth real points.

Nebraska demands the broker's registered business name on all advertising, and team names must include the word "team" or "group", students who memorize other states' rules fail Nebraska questions about franchise name display requirements.

Know that all Nebraska advertising must display the broker's registered business name, that team names must include "team" or "group," and how franchise names interact with those requirements.

Nebraska's advertising rules are specific enough that candidates who apply generic "broker name required" logic from national courses will miss questions about team names, franchise identifiers, and the exact form the registered name must take.