The new law aims to curb landlords’ use of rent-setting practices that critics say amount to unlawful collusion.

The lawsuit alleges that the Texas company intentionally fed competing landlords' nonpublic information about rental rates into its rent suggestion algorithms, resulting in anti-competitive ...

Greedy software: The housing market crisis is in full swing, and some landlords are eager to exploit the situation to make even more money. The Attorney General for the District of Columbia is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Seattle man’s rent went up 50% after his landlord used a popular pricing tool — now Washington State is suing the Texas ...

A group of Massachusetts legislators on Wednesday sent letters to 13 of the state’s largest apartment owners questioning their use of a software that allegedly helps landlords inflate rents at their ...

Collecting information from a bunch of different entities, then setting prices for them all to follow, seems like textbook collusion to me. "All of us are going to send this guy info, and follow the ...

Data: Council of Economic Advisers analysis of data from: American Housing Survey, American Community Survey, RealPage, Calder-Wang and Kim (2024), Zillow Observed Rent Index; Chart: Axios Visuals ...

DC’s attorney general has sued 14 of the city’s largest landlord firms, claiming they entered into agreements with a property management software firm to keep rent prices high in a city with a housing ...