A Certified Senior Housing Professional (CSHP) is a real estate agent specially trained to help older adults and their families buy, sell, and downsize homes. Earned through the Seniors Real Estate Institute, the designation signals advanced expertise in later-life moves, senior housing options, and the needs of clients over 50.
Certified Senior Housing Professionals® (CSHP) are real estate professionals who demonstrate advanced knowledge, strategic insight, and a commitment to serving those navigating complex residential transitions—often after years or even decades in the same home.
CSHPs are known not just for what they do, but how they do it: with clarity, confidence, and a thoughtful, client-centered approach.
Residential transitions later in life are rarely simple. Whether simplifying, relocating, or right-sizing, these moves often involve emotional ties, family dynamics, accumulated belongings, and long-range planning.
CSHPs bring a structured, solution-oriented approach—helping individuals and families make well-informed decisions at every step.
Certified Senior Housing Professionals are recognized for their ability to support clients through one of life’s most significant transitions—often involving the sale of a long-held residence and a move that impacts the individual, their family, and other trusted supporters.
They are trained and equipped to:
Step 1: Complete the Course
Finish all modules in the Success in Seniors Real Estate® course and pass the final exam.
Step 2: Apply What You’ve Learned
Complete the Strategic Business Blueprint.
Step 3: Submit Your Application
Provide references, document relevant experience, and affirm alignment with CSHP standards and practices.
Step 4: Participate in an Interview
Engage with the SREI Membership Council to review your implementation and readiness.
Step 5: Receive Certification Decision
Certification is awarded based on demonstrated competence, clarity of purpose, and commitment to the mission.
Today’s real estate landscape includes a growing number of individuals and families facing life transitions that involve letting go of long-held homes and making important housing choices for the future. These situations call for a higher level of awareness, preparation, and guidance than most agents are trained to provide.
CSHPs are prepared—and positioned—to lead.
This is not a quick credential or checkbox designation. It’s a rigorous, values-based certification process for those ready to bring excellence and leadership to a highly specialized market segment.
CSHPs bring confidence, credibility, and consistency to every transition they serve—helping clients take the next step with clarity and peace of mind.
This is real estate at its highest level: purposeful, strategic, and deeply meaningful.
“It’s more than a certification… it’s a mission.”
Start here if you need to complete the Success in Seniors Real Estate™ course pre-requisite.
Through SREI I gained the confidence to approach local senior retirement communities and have become a one-stop-shop, for successful relocations in my area and beyond.
The Success in Seniors Real Estate course was far more than just a training. It has been a career changer for me.
Amazing training and program! With a background in social work and coming from the social service industry, what I love and appreciate about Chris and Nikki's program is that it is all about putting people and their needs first.
I’d already been working with Seniors for many years when I took the Success in Seniors Real Estate class. It was immediately clear to me the first hour of the class that SREI was different in how they approach serving seniors.
The more I implement the processes I've learned, the more successful my business has become. Nikki has helped me develop a passion for helping seniors and I'll be forever grateful.
Being a CSHP has been invaluable in being recognized as an expert in working with transitioning seniors. We are truly Different!
Since completing the SREI courses, I have gained a reputation as a local expert in the field of seniors and Real Estate.
