After less than a year in the role, Amy Lessinger is exiting her position as president at RE/MAX. The resignation is effective Jan. 17.

The news comes amid a transitional period for RE/MAX. In early 2024, former president and CEO Nick Bailey resigned following a net loss of $69 million the year prior. Lessinger took over Bailey’s role as president that February. Shortly before that, brand outsider Erik Carlson was hired as the new CEO of parent company RE/MAX Holdings.

Lessinger, however, was no brand outsider. She joined RE/MAX in 1996 as an agent, working her way up to become a team leader, then broker/owner, then in 2020, an executive. Recently, on Jan. 8, she ranked as No. 70 on T3 Sixty’s Swanepoel Power 200 list.

Also recently, Lessinger shared a positive market outlook with Agent Publishing. Stating that RE/MAX research indicates interest rates will start trending down and said she believed more sellers will enter the market in 2025.

“So many [sellers] have been waiting on the sidelines, locked in with their rates. As those rates come down, even if just a little, they may find that window where they say, ‘OK, now is the time,’ because life does march on,” Lessinger told Agent Publishing.

According to a company statement, Carlson will assume Lessinger’s presidential responsibilities until a successor is named.