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10/06/2026
Court Sides with Attorney General Tong in RealPage Case; Antitrust Lawsuit Over Rent Pricing to Continue
(Hartford, CT) — Attorney General William Tong’s bipartisan antitrust lawsuit over RealPage’s rent-pricing algorithm will continue after a court ruled in favor of Connecticut and denied the software company’s attempts to have the case thrown out.Connecticut, the U.S. Department of Justice, and a coalition of states sued RealPage in 2024. The lawsuit alleges that the software company used landlords’ competitively sensitive data to create a pricing algorithm that violated antitrust laws and raised rent prices.
“RealPage exists for one reason—to enable the country’s biggest landlords to rig the market and jack up rents for American families. We sued to give families a fair chance at an affordable place to live. Our case is strong, and we are going to keep fighting in court to hold RealPage accountable and to restore real competition to this broken rental market,” said Attorney General Tong.
Specifically, RealPage sold “revenue management software” to property managers across the United States in exchange for their nonpublic, sensitive data. That data included information about rental units coming on the market, rent prices property managers were charging, and discounts they were offering. RealPage used that information to suggest apartment prices to property managers to help them make more money. The company then used multiple strategies to get property managers to automatically accept its recommendations. That meant apartment prices were artificially inflated, and renters couldn’t shop around for something more affordable.
As part of the case, Attorney General Tong sued six landlords who allegedly worked together and with RealPage to raise rent prices in January 2025. A coalition of states and the U.S. Department of Justice sued Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC, Blackstone’s LivCor LLC, Camden Property Trust, Cushman & Wakefield Inc and Pinnacle Property Management Services LLC, and Willow Bridge Property Company LLC. That lawsuit alleges that the sharing of nonpublic, competitively sensitive data allowed landlords using RealPage’s products to set higher prices than would have been set in a competitive market.
Attorney General Tong has settled with two of the landlords. Attorney General Tong joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in reaching two $7 million settlements with LivCor and Greystar. Under the settlement, LivCor and Greystar agreed to stop using non-public data from other landlords to set rents.
The lawsuit against RealPage asks the court to stop the company and the property managers it works with from sharing non-public information and working together to inflate rent prices.
Attorney General Tong is joined in continuing the lawsuit by the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, and Tennessee.
Assistant Attorney General Julián Quiñones and Deputy Associate Attorney General/Chief of the Antitrust Section Nicole Demers assisted Attorney General Tong in this matter.
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