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Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court
U.S. landlords who use RealPage products to set prices on rental apartments are facing accusations of collusion.
In November 2023, the attorney general of Washington, D.C., filed a similar but more narrow complaint against RealPage and 14 landlords that collectively manage more than 50,000 apartment units in the District. They allege that landlords share competitively sensitive data through RealPage, which then sets artificially high rents on a key slice of the local rental market. Affiliates of Equity Residential are contesting a separate decision made by a local housing authority in Jersey City regarding prices set on the Portside Towers property.
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