Lower than a 12 months after taking the helm, Amy Lessinger has introduced her resignation because the president of RE/MAX. The brokerage franchisor publicized Lessinger’s resignation by means of a doc filed with the Securities and Change Fee (SEC) on Wednesday.
Lessinger knowledgeable the corporate of her resignation, which is efficient Jan. 17, on Friday. No cause was listed for Lessinger’s departure.
In accordance with the submitting, RE/MAX is presently conducting a seek for its subsequent president. Within the meantime, Eric Carlson — the CEO of RE/MAX Holdings, the brokerage agency’s mother or father firm — will function interim president. Carlson joined RE/MAX Holdings in November 2023 after serving because the president and CEO of Dish Community for six years.
Lessinger was promoted to the position of president in February 2024 following the departure of the corporate’s longtime CEO and president, Nick Bailey.
Previous to serving as president of RE/MAX, Lessinger had served as senior vp of regional growth at RE/MAX. She joined the agency in 1998 as an agent earlier than opening a brand new RE/MAX Realty Associates department in Reno, Nevada. Lessinger joined the company aspect of the agency in 2020 when she offered her possession curiosity within the brokerage and joined the RE/MAX world headquarters workforce.
Her departure comes as RE/MAX continues to wrestle with a lowering home agent rely and 9 consecutive quarters of falling income as of third-quarter 2024.
In late 2024, Lessinger instructed HousingWire that RE/MAX can be targeted on interesting to youthful generations of brokers by bolstering each its expertise choices and its academic alternatives.
“If we need to appeal to the following technology of brokers coming into the business, we now have to strengthen how they arrive up to the mark and evolve their capacity to achieve a foothold within the business rapidly and with nice success,” Lessinger mentioned.
“Guaranteeing that the schooling choices that we now have, have confirmed outcomes with them is a spotlight for us in 2025. We wish brokers to have the ability to be part of RE/MAX with confidence and perceive that in the event that they lean into the instruments, the schooling, the expertise and the help, then they’re properly positioned to construct a profitable enterprise.”