Maybe if we ban RealPage a second time…
September 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Maybe if we ban RealPage a second time…
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
A related fact: last year Seattle also passed the ban on landlords from using software like RealPage to algorithmically set the price of rent.
www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
August 7, 2026 at 3:02 AM
A related fact: last year Seattle also passed the ban on landlords from using software like RealPage to algorithmically set the price of rent.
www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
www.propublica.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
RealPage and over a dozen of DC's largest landlords acted as a housing cartel.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
DC attorney general inks first settlement in RealPage price-fixing lawsuit
The District of Columbia attorney general's office has secured its first settlement in a lawsuit accusing landlords and technology company RealPage of conspiring to inflate rental prices.
www.reuters.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
RealPage and over a dozen of DC's largest landlords acted as a housing cartel.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
lmaoooooo these quotes from ag garland's announcement of the realpage antitrust lawsuit
August 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
lmaoooooo these quotes from ag garland's announcement of the realpage antitrust lawsuit
NEW: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case
The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like beh...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
NEW: We secured $1 million from a District landlord involved in the RealPage rental price-fixing scheme.
They will also be banned from using rent-setting software.
This is the first settlement in our suit against RealPage and the corporate landlords that illegally colluded to hike rents in DC.
They will also be banned from using rent-setting software.
This is the first settlement in our suit against RealPage and the corporate landlords that illegally colluded to hike rents in DC.
June 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NEW: We secured $1 million from a District landlord involved in the RealPage rental price-fixing scheme.
They will also be banned from using rent-setting software.
This is the first settlement in our suit against RealPage and the corporate landlords that illegally colluded to hike rents in DC.
They will also be banned from using rent-setting software.
This is the first settlement in our suit against RealPage and the corporate landlords that illegally colluded to hike rents in DC.
RealPage should not exist.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
RealPage should not exist.
Is this because Austin really cracked down on RealPage or something else?
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Is this because Austin really cracked down on RealPage or something else?
Kentucky is the latest state to sue RealPage for high-tech price fixing. It’s time we pass my bill to ensure that landlords cannot use algorithms to collude and raise your rent.
www.law360.com/competition/...
www.law360.com/competition/...
Kentucky Accuses RealPage, Landlords Of Price-Fixing Rents - Law360
Kentucky has accused property management software company RealPage Inc. and multiple landlords of engaging in rent price-fixing, lodging similar antitrust claims against RealPage as the federal govern...
www.law360.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Kentucky is the latest state to sue RealPage for high-tech price fixing. It’s time we pass my bill to ensure that landlords cannot use algorithms to collude and raise your rent.
www.law360.com/competition/...
www.law360.com/competition/...
New Jersey sues RealPage, says collusion with landlords drives up rents reut.rs/4m1lgUv
April 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New Jersey sues RealPage, says collusion with landlords drives up rents reut.rs/4m1lgUv
Fuck this (realpage settlement, not s.e. smith’s correct opinion).
And look: RealPage is essentially the Voltron of landlords. It’s software that allows them to get together and form UberParasite so that every landlord in your city can extract every dollar possible.
And look: RealPage is essentially the Voltron of landlords. It’s software that allows them to get together and form UberParasite so that every landlord in your city can extract every dollar possible.
The landlord class is fundamentally parasitic. The very idea of owning land is ludicrous let alone treating is as a purely extractive source of 'passive income' rooted in the exploitation of people who just need a fucking place to live.
The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again - The American Prospect
A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.
prospect.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Fuck this (realpage settlement, not s.e. smith’s correct opinion).
And look: RealPage is essentially the Voltron of landlords. It’s software that allows them to get together and form UberParasite so that every landlord in your city can extract every dollar possible.
And look: RealPage is essentially the Voltron of landlords. It’s software that allows them to get together and form UberParasite so that every landlord in your city can extract every dollar possible.
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
June 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
#ICYMI: The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case
The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like beh...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#ICYMI: The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
RealPage uses an “algorithm” to help landlords choose a price. This effectively allows landlords to communicate prices to one another; in many rental markets, RealPage has a monopoly on listings.
November 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
RealPage uses an “algorithm” to help landlords choose a price. This effectively allows landlords to communicate prices to one another; in many rental markets, RealPage has a monopoly on listings.
DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm
The suit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices — and profits.
The suit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices — and profits.
DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm
The lawsuit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to bo...
www.propublica.org
August 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm
The suit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices — and profits.
The suit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices — and profits.
The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices.
Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs:
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs:
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...
www.propublica.org
July 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices.
Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs:
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs:
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
RealPage allegedly helped landlords price-fix and jack up the cost of rent.
Instead of cracking down, Trump's Justice Department struck a “deal” that lets them continue to rip off renters.
Is that the art of the deal or a sham? RealPage called it "an endorsement."
Instead of cracking down, Trump's Justice Department struck a “deal” that lets them continue to rip off renters.
Is that the art of the deal or a sham? RealPage called it "an endorsement."
Justice Department to Settle Lawsuit Over Apartment Rental Pricing
The case had alleged that RealPage’s software allowed landlords to unfairly coordinate prices.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
RealPage allegedly helped landlords price-fix and jack up the cost of rent.
Instead of cracking down, Trump's Justice Department struck a “deal” that lets them continue to rip off renters.
Is that the art of the deal or a sham? RealPage called it "an endorsement."
Instead of cracking down, Trump's Justice Department struck a “deal” that lets them continue to rip off renters.
Is that the art of the deal or a sham? RealPage called it "an endorsement."
IMPACT: America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ @heathervogell.bsky.social
America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
IMPACT: America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ @heathervogell.bsky.social
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump to target nonprofits
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
The oligarchy's wishlist.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump to target nonprofits
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
The oligarchy's wishlist.
May 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump to target nonprofits
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
The oligarchy's wishlist.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump to target nonprofits
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
The oligarchy's wishlist.
Rent isn’t high by accident, it’s high because 9 landlords colluded with an algorithm called RealPage to fix prices behind your back.
Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote, AZ!
#BlueWaveIn90Days
Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote, AZ!
#BlueWaveIn90Days
August 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Rent isn’t high by accident, it’s high because 9 landlords colluded with an algorithm called RealPage to fix prices behind your back.
Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote, AZ!
#BlueWaveIn90Days
Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote, AZ!
#BlueWaveIn90Days
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill?
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
-Tax cuts skewed to the rich
-Medicaid & SNAP cuts
-Ends IRS Direct File
-New powers for Trump over the courts
-Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage
It's a big, ugly nightmare.
Our service members should not have to deal with profiteering landlords jacking up their rents.
Secretary Hegseth should investigate and protect military families from predatory companies like RealPage.
Secretary Hegseth should investigate and protect military families from predatory companies like RealPage.
With military housing costs skyrocketing, Democratic senators request Pentagon action
Lawmakers want to know whether landlords’ higher rents are based on a technology being probed by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our service members should not have to deal with profiteering landlords jacking up their rents.
Secretary Hegseth should investigate and protect military families from predatory companies like RealPage.
Secretary Hegseth should investigate and protect military families from predatory companies like RealPage.
Maryland is suing RealPage, a software company that makes algorithms landlords allegedly use to illegally collude and profit.
The state AG is also suing eight major landlords, who own over 100,000 apartments that were reportedly affected by this scheme.
The state AG is also suing eight major landlords, who own over 100,000 apartments that were reportedly affected by this scheme.
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Maryland is suing RealPage, a software company that makes algorithms landlords allegedly use to illegally collude and profit.
The state AG is also suing eight major landlords, who own over 100,000 apartments that were reportedly affected by this scheme.
The state AG is also suing eight major landlords, who own over 100,000 apartments that were reportedly affected by this scheme.