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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced this morning that NAR President Tracy Kasper will be resigning, President-elect Kevin Spears will step into the role effective immediately. 

Kasper informed NAR’s Leadership Team that she recently received a threat to disclose a past personal, non-financial matter unless she compromised her position at NAR. She refused to do so and instead reported the threat to law enforcement. 

The press release said that Kasper felt that it was best for the organization that she step down. The Leadership Team expressed its concern about any attempt to undermine its governance and is taking steps to protect the integrity of the organization.

“As president and a long-time member of NAR, I always have put the interests of NAR first. As a result of the recent threat and given the significance of this moment for myself, my family and the organization, it is again time for me to put the interests of NAR first. So, it is with a mix of gratitude and a heavy heart that I submit my resignation as your president effective immediately. In doing so, it gives our Leadership Team the ability to take the reins and forge forward in effecting the change that we all have worked so hard over the past few months to begin. I know I leave our members, our staff and our association in good hands,” Kasper said in the press release.  

At the national level, Kasper has served on the NAR Board of Directors since 2016, and chaired the 50th Anniversary of RPAC Implementation Group in 2018. She was a member of the Future of the Realtor Party Presidential Advisory Group in 2017 and the RPAC State Fundraising Partnership Goal PAG in 2016. 

The Idaho native has been a member of the Idaho Association of Realtors since 1997. She served as the president in 2016 and was awarded Realtor of the Year that same year.