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# Justice Department Accuses RealPage of Violating Antitrust Laws Through Scheme to Hike Rents

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_Published 2024-08-23. 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._


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## Transcript

Body knows the rent is too damn high, and we allege this is one of the reasons why. When companies, and in this case, landlords use a software tool to facilitate cooperation with respect to rents. They violate the antitrust laws. They make rents higher than they would otherwise be, and they prevent rents from going down. So today, after a nearly two year investigation, the Justice Department, joined by eight states, has sued RealPage, a commercial real estate software company for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. So make no mistake. Training a machine to break the law is still breaking the law.

Price coordination, using AI is still price coordination, and monopolization advanced by an algorithm is still monopolization. As alleged in our complaint, RealPage is using technology to undermine competition in the rental market and to harm consumers in the process. By feeding sensitive data into a sophisticated algorithm, RealPage has found a modern way to violate a century old law through systematic coordination of rental housing prices. Real Page sells landlords, what it calls revenue management software. We allege that this software is developed, marketed and sold to enable landlords to sidestep vigorous competition in the rental market.

Competing landlords agree to submit to RealPage on a daily basis their most sensitive non public information, including rental rates, lease terms, and projected vacancies. RealPage then combines this data from competing landlords and feeds it into an algorithm that provides real time pricing recommendations back to the competing landlords.

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