Millions of rents across the country may now be set using one company’s algorithmic software, according to a federal lawsuit and a Washington Post analysis.

The lawsuit expands a 2024 antitrust complaint accusing a property management software maker of illegal price-fixing.

If you rent an apartment in the Triangle, there’s a solid chance that Jeff Jackson and the federal government are accusing your landlord of inflating rental prices.

The Justice Department is adding six major apartment landlords to its lawsuit against real-estate software company RealPage, expanding the scope of its allegations that the rent-setting algorithm enabled illegal price fixing.

Attorney General William Tong joined the US Department of Justice and attorneys general from nine other states in a lawsuit this week against six of the nation’s largest landlords over their use of algorithmic pricing software to set their rental rates.

On Tuesday, the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against six major landlords. It accuses them of working together to keep rent prices high.

Federal prosecutors sued the real estate software company RealPage in August, now they're suing some of the company's biggest customers.

Six of the country’s most powerful landlords were named in a lawsuit brought forth by the U.S. Justice Department. Blackstone, Cushman & Wakefield, Greystar, Camden, Pinnacle, Willow Bridge, and Cortland were all implicated.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges massive landlords colluded to decrease competition and set rental prices by sharing competitive information.

Several large landlords allegedly colluded in an effort to keep apartment rents high, including by using an algorithm that influences prices, according to new legal filings by the Colorado attorney general,

The complaint alleged the six companies set their rents using each other's information by either speaking with competitor's senior managers, calling around, and participating in user groups to discuss how to modify pricing methods.