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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000104894-25-000132"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ELME"
cik: "0000104894"
company_name: "Elme Communities"
filed_at: "2025-11-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T19:39:18.723680+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Elme Communities CIO resigns; workforce down to 117 after multifamily sale

## Summary
- Susan Gerock, SVP and CIO, resigned effective Nov 14, 2025; receives 24 months base salary continuation plus bonus and up to 18 months COBRA.
- Workforce reduction ongoing: headcount ~117 (73 in community management) following sale of 19 multifamily assets to Cortland Partners.
- Company is executing its plan of sale and liquidation, downsizing to retain only essential personnel for remaining assets and wind-down.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000104894-25-000132
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ELME
- cik: 0000104894
- company_name: Elme Communities
- filed_at: 2025-11-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000132/0000104894-25-000132-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104894/000010489425000132/elme-20251110.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000104894-25-000132.txt

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