RealPage engaged in an unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords use to price apartments, according to a complaint filed by the US Department of Justice and eight states. The complaint alleges that RealPage contracts with competing landlords who agree to share with RealPage nonpublic, competitively sensitive information about their apartment rental rates and other lease terms to train and run RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software, which generates recommendations, including on apartment rental pricing and other terms, for participating landlords based on their and their rivals’ competitively sensitive information. North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington joined the DOJ in the complaint.
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