The president of the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors, Tracy Kasper, is stepping down after she mentioned she obtained a risk and reported it to regulation enforcement.
Kasper knowledgeable the group’s management “that she just lately obtained a risk to reveal a previous private, non-financial matter until she compromised her place at NAR,” in accordance with an announcement Monday. “She refused to take action and as an alternative reported the risk to regulation enforcement.”
Kasper shall be changed by president-elect Kevin Sears, in accordance with the assertion.
The group, which represents greater than 1.5 million members in varied elements of the actual property trade, has confronted a tumultuous yr with a set of lawsuits threatening to squeeze the affiliation and main brokerages pulling out of NAR. The New York Instances reported final yr on sexual harassment allegations in opposition to a few of the management.
In November, Nykia Wright was named because the group’s interim chief government officer after Bob Goldberg stepped down, the group mentioned.
“Because of the current risk and given the importance of this second for myself, my household and the group, it’s once more time for me to place the pursuits of NAR first,” Kasper mentioned within the assertion.
