Concerns over competitors using AI pricing tools to fix prices have dominated antitrust discussions in the U.S. and EU.

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RealPage settled a DOJ lawsuit, agreeing to stop using competitors’ nonpublic data for rental pricing and to accept compliance monitoring. AI Summary Rental pricing software firm RealPage has settled ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

RealPage Inc. agrees to a major settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations that its rent-pricing software facilitated illegal “algorithmic collusion” among landlords.

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Last year, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against software company RealPage, accusing it of manipulating the rental housing market and driving up prices. Now, the DoJ has announced ...

The Justice Department had accused the real estate software company of enabling landlords to charge tenants more than free-market rates. By David McCabe The Justice Department said on Monday that it ...

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with RealPage over allegations it helped landlords fix rents by sharing pricing information through its software, court papers showed on Monday.

The settlement puts limits on the data RealPage can collect from landlords, which it uses to recommend rent prices. The settlement puts limits on the data RealPage can collect from landlords, which it ...

Thoma Bravo’s RealPage and the justice department reached a settlement agreement in an antitrust case that had accused the company of monopolizing the market for rental property software and fostering ...

When the U.S. Department of Justice sued RealPage and six of the largest rental property landlords in the nation over alleged price fixing — illegal price gouging — it came to light that Austin was ...