Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
Of all the reasons it could be hard to pay rent each month, did you have an algorithm-powered illegal cartel on your list? Millions of people across the United States are paying far more rent than ...
On Friday, August 23, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against software company RealPage, which provides a rental-price-setting service to landlords. It’s not the first lawsuit ...
RealPage has agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit raised by the Department of Justice, alleging that landlords used its tools to coordinate efforts to artificially raise rental prices across the US.
The lawsuit alleges that the Texas company intentionally fed competing landlords' nonpublic information about rental rates into its rent suggestion algorithms, resulting in anti-competitive ...
Greystar, which manages dozens of apartment complexes in Southern California, has settled a lawsuit that alleges the property giant and other landlords colluded to keep rents artificially high. The ...
Attorney General William Tong says Connecticut and eight other states have reached a $7 million settlement deal with the largest landlord in the United ...
Soaring rents have mostly been blamed on America’s inflation and a lack of housing supply, but another culprit has been algorithmic pricing software, according to a pair of explosive lawsuits. Big ...
Unlike tools that rely on basic translation overlays, RentRedi’s Spanish tenant experience is fully localized. When a renter ...
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a ...
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell about her reporting on a software that helps landlords set the highest possible prices for rent. If you feel like you've been getting ...