Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from RealPage

Colorado's governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has vetoed a bill that would have made Colorado the first state to ban landlords from using rent-setting algorithms

The Independent UK

Texas Revs the Growth Machine

Plus: The near death of starter-home reform in Texas, Colorado's pending ban on rent-recommendation software, and a very Catholic story of eminent domain abuse.

Reason

Judge Orders Rhode Island Town To Return Secretly Seized Land to Affordable Housing Developer

Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.

Reason

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Justice Department Sues Landlords For Alleged Rent Price Fixing

U.S. Justice Department lawsuit targets landlords for anti-competitive practices in setting high rents, impacting American renters.

Top News

US Justice Department accuses six major landlords of scheming to keep rents high

The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high

The Independent UK

Fighting AI-Driven Rent Hikes: California Cities Move Against Algorithmic Pricing

The complaint accuses RealPage, a Texas-based platform, of exploiting landlords' sensitive data, benefiting both the company and landlords while driving up rent prices at the expense of renters.

International Business Times

Robo price-fixing: Why the Justice Department is suing a software company to stop landlords colluding on rents

Of all the reasons it could be hard to pay rent each month, did you have an algorithm-powered illegal cartel on your list?

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Harris plans to defeat housing crisis

Harris wants to defeat housing crisis with rent controls and incentives to build

Salon

Here’s how much landlords’ software is to blame for your high rents, according to one researcher

“About a quarter of rental inflation is potentially due to this price fixing conspiracy orchestrated by RealPage and some of the big corporate landlords,” Matt Stoller, the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, told Fortune.

Fortune

Blackstone Hiked Rent Prices At Double The Market Rate in San Diego, Allegedly Uses RealPage's Rent Fixing Software: Report

Blackstone has aggressively expanded its real estate empire since 2021, owning 350,000 rental units while fighting rent control measures and allegedly using rent-fixing software that is being probed for financially impacting millions of renters.

International Business Times UK

Are You Living in San Diego's 'Worst ADU'?

Plus: The feds come for RealPage, a YIMBY caucus comes to Congress, and tiny Rhode Island enacts a big slate of housing reforms.

Reason

DOJ sues Texas company for raising rents

The suit alleges RealPage Inc.’s algorithm used private information to set higher rent prices

Salon

Is This Why Your Rent Is Skyrocketing? DOJ And 8 US States Sue RealPage For Alleged Price-Fixing Scheme

The DOJ is probing RealPage's collusion with landlords via its algorithm-based rental price-setting software to fix higher rents beyond market forces that impacted millions of renters.

International Business Times UK

US Alleges Software Scheme To Raise Rent Prices

US prosecutors unveiled sweeping antitrust charges Friday against a property management software company that they allege employs algorithms to enable collusion among landlords, harming renters across numerous US markets.

International Business Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Top News

Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Realpage Inc.

Justice Department sues RealPage for alleged antitrust violation enabling rent price collusion among landlords.

The Independent UK

Justice Department accuses RealPage of violating antitrust laws through scheme to hike rents

The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage, accusing it of an illegal scheme that allows landlords to coordinate to hike rental prices

Roll Call

DOJ alleges RealPage helped landlords inflate rents - Roll Call

The Justice Department and eight states on Friday sued real estate company RealPage, alleging the company helped landlords collude on rents.

Reason

San Francisco City Council Targets Free Speech To Cover Up Its Own Housing Failures

Desperate to control soaring rents, the city council bans rental data tools while ignoring its own role in the housing crisis.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

San Francisco to ban landlord-AI gouging

The area is the first municipality in the U.S. to target AI platforms, which critics say scourge the housing market

Reason

RealPage Conspiracy Theories

The media, state attorneys general, and the Biden administration are blaming rent-recommendation software for rising rents. Normal stories of supply and demand are the more reasonable explanation.

The Guardian - US

Corporations are forcing Americans to pay more for less – in their own words

Companies in the oil, hotel, meat and other sectors are price-gouging the US public. They’re not hiding it, either

Kiplinger

What to Do When Your Rent is Too High

If your rent is too high, options for consumers are limited, but there are some things you can do if you're facing a rent increase.

Tribune News Service

D-FW builders are putting up an eye-popping number of new apartments

DALLAS — North Texas apartment construction surged to a new high in the early months of 2023.

Salon

Sens: Rent-setting algorithm "alarming"

RealPage's answers alarmed senators so much they sent a letter to the Justice Department

Tribune News Service

Senators urge DOJ to scrutinize landlords’ use of RealPage software to raise rents

Four U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department to look closely at how Richardson-based RealPage’s software is used by big landlords.

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Justice Department

the US Department of Justice

79 stories

Pioneer

76 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.