Free NY Real Estate Video Lessons: All 30, Including Worked Math

Roughly half of first-time candidates do not pass the New York real estate salesperson exam. The encouraging part of that statistic is the other half of it: more than eight in ten pass on their second attempt. The difference is almost never intelligence. It is preparation that matches how the exam actually asks questions.

Exam Practice Hub now has 30 video lessons for the NY salesperson exam, including a dedicated worked-examples series for the section candidates fear most.

The Nineteen Topic Lessons

Each runs a few minutes: the concept explained, then an exam-style question with the reasoning walked through.

• Agency Relationships — fiduciary duties, and the disclosure timing rule that catches people out
• Real Estate Math — the core formulas
• Fair Housing in New York — the federal classes plus the additional ones New York protects
• NY License Law — Article 12-A, the single largest block of questions
• Contracts — what makes an agreement binding, and what quietly voids it
• Finance — loan types and the clauses that trigger a payoff
• Estates in Land, Easements & Encroachments, Liens, Fixtures & the Bundle of Rights — real property fundamentals across four lessons
• Forms of Co-Ownership — and why survivorship decides most of these questions
• Deeds & Title Transfer — ranked from most to least buyer protection
• Land Use & Zoning — variance versus conditional use
• Valuation & Appraisal, Leases & Landlord-Tenant, Closing & Settlement
• NY-Specific Topics — co-ops, condos, rent stabilization
• Commercial & Investment and Construction & Environmental

The Math Series: Six Videos of Worked Problems

Math is where candidates lose the most avoidable points, and where a lesson explaining formulas is not enough. So this series does something different: it works complete problems slowly, one step at a time, and shows exactly where the wrong answers come from.

• Commission & Splits — including the net-to-seller problem nearly everyone gets wrong the first time. If a seller wants to net $300,000 after a 6% commission, the answer is not $318,000. The commission is a percentage of the sale price, not of the net, so you divide by 0.94 — giving $319,148.94.
• Proration at Closing — daily rates, counting days correctly, and knowing which direction the money flows
• Loan-to-Value, Points & Interest — and the distinction that decides most financing questions: points are a percentage of the loan, never the purchase price
• NOI, Cap Rate & GRM — including the trap of subtracting debt service when calculating net operating income. You never do.
• Area, Acreage & Price Per Square Foot — one number to memorize (43,560 square feet per acre) and the rest is arithmetic
• Mixed Exam-Conditions Practice — problem types scattered and mixed, the way the real exam presents them

Every calculation in the series was worked and independently checked before recording. Where a wrong answer choice exists, the video tells you what mistake produces it — because recognizing your own error pattern is worth more than memorizing another formula.

Five Rapid-Fire Drills

Once the material is learned, you need repetition rather than explanation. The five drill videos are pure practice — ten fresh questions each, mixed across topics, no teaching segments.

Why Video Helps for This Exam

The New York exam rarely asks you to define a term. It gives you a scenario and expects you to recognize which rule applies. That is a pattern-recognition skill, and patterns are easier to absorb when someone talks you through the reasoning than when you read a definition and move on.

It is also why we pair every lesson with a question immediately. Watching without testing produces a comfortable feeling of understanding that does not survive contact with an exam.

How to Use Them

Work through the topic lessons in order, answering each question before moving on. Then the math series — slowly, with a pen, actually working the problems rather than watching the solutions. Then the drills, to find your weak spots. Rewatch only what the drills expose.

The videos sit inside the NY Real Estate Practice Tests course alongside the full question bank. For a no-signup start, the free NY real estate flashcards now include a study mode that resurfaces the cards you miss and spaces out the ones you know.

Frequently Asked Questions

How hard is the NY real estate salesperson exam?

Published figures put the first-attempt pass rate at roughly 50–60%, with over 80% passing by the second attempt. It is a demanding exam, but a very passable one with targeted preparation.

How much math is on the exam?

Math is a minority of questions but a disproportionate share of lost points, because the errors are usually reading errors rather than arithmetic ones — stopping a step early, or using the purchase price where the loan amount belongs.

Are the videos free?

The lessons are part of the NY Real Estate Practice Tests course. Free flashcards and a free preview quiz are available with no signup.

Is this specific to New York?

Yes. License law, fair housing additions, and topics like rent stabilization and co-ops are covered using New York’s rules, not a generic national syllabus.