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With his attack on RealPage, Merrick Garland ignores the rental market


With his attack on RealPage, Merrick Garland ignores the rental market

UKRAINE – 21.06.2021: This photo illustration shows a RealPage logo of a US software company … (+) on a smartphone and a PC screen. (Photo illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Prices are information. It’s simple. That’s why government attempts to distort prices or keep them artificially low […]

Feds accuse RealPage of price fixing on rent


Feds accuse RealPage of price fixing on rent

The Justice Department on Friday filed a lawsuit against RealPage, a company that offers housing pricing software, arguing that the software denies renters fair competition and leads to collusion among landlords. In its complaint, the Justice Department said the Texas-based company’s revenue management software relies on confidential information shared between landlords, which is then used […]

Oregon joins federal antitrust lawsuit over rental pricing software • Oregon Capital Chronicle


Oregon joins federal antitrust lawsuit over rental pricing software • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon’s attorney general has joined other states, the District of Columbia and the federal government in an antitrust lawsuit against a company that sells property management software that provides rental price recommendations. The lawsuit against Texas-based RealPage accuses the company of collecting confidential rental data from more than 16 million units across the country to […]

Attorney General sues national software company for allegedly conspiring to hike rent costs | News


Attorney General sues national software company for allegedly conspiring to hike rent costs | News

OLYMPIA – Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has joined with the U.S. Department of Justice and eight state attorneys general to file a lawsuit accusing RealPage, a nationwide revenue management software company, of colluding with landlords to raise rent prices. According to a press release, RealPage is the leading revenue management software system for […]

Justice Department sues software company RealPage for alleged rent-fixing


Justice Department sues software company RealPage for alleged rent-fixing

The U.S. Department of Justice and attorneys general from eight states have filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPagea Texas-based provider of property management software. The lawsuit, filed Friday in the Middle District of North Carolina, accuses RealPage of facilitating widespread collusion among landlords to artificially inflate rent prices for millions of Americans. The main allegation […]

USA claims software program is intended to increase rent prices


USA claims software program is intended to increase rent prices

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter to file charges against RealPage (Anna Moneymaker) US prosecutors on Friday filed comprehensive antitrust charges against a property management software company. The company is accused of using algorithms to facilitate collusion between landlords and thus harm tenants in numerous US markets. The Department […]

US Department of Justice and Cal AG sue RealPage over pricing that allegedly hurts millions of renters


US Department of Justice and Cal AG sue RealPage over pricing that allegedly hurts millions of renters

Especially for the avant-garde The Justice Department on Friday, along with the attorneys general of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against RealPage Inc. The plaintiff accuses the company of an illegal scheme to reduce competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market […]

US Department of Justice sues software company that allegedly defrauded millions of renters in the US


US Department of Justice sues software company that allegedly defrauded millions of renters in the US

WASHINGTON (TN) — A real estate software company is being sued by the Justice Department and several states for allegedly allowing landlords to raise rents. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and other federal prosecutors announced Friday that RealPage Inc.’s software enabled landlords to raise rents across the United States. The government filed the lawsuit against […]

Antitrust lawsuit accuses real estate companies of helping landlords increase profits


Antitrust lawsuit accuses real estate companies of helping landlords increase profits

WASHINGTON STATE — The state of Washington, along with eight other state attorneys general and the federal government, has just joined an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, accusing the real estate software company and landlords of illegally colluding to increase profits. RealPage is a real estate software company that, according to its website, “delivers a unified, […]

Antitrust lawsuit accuses real estate companies of helping landlords increase profits


Antitrust lawsuit accuses real estate companies of helping landlords increase profits

WASHINGTON STATE — The state of Washington, along with eight other state attorneys general and the federal government, has just joined an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, accusing the real estate software company and landlords of illegally colluding to increase profits. RealPage is a real estate software company that, according to its website, “delivers a unified, […]