The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina refused to dismiss California’s antitrust suit and kept RealPage and several property managers in the case, the California attorney general’s office said.
The office said it and a bipartisan coalition of nine states sued RealPage in 2024, alleging the company used landlords’ competitively sensitive data to build pricing algorithms that violated antitrust laws; the parties filed an amended complaint in 2025 that added Camden, Pinnacle, LivCor, Willow Bridge and Greystar as defendants and alleged an unlawful pricing‑alignment scheme that artificially inflated rents and maintained a minimum pricing floor.
“Both RealPage and the large landlords that use it attempted to evade responsibility for conduct that has artificially inflated rent prices nationwide. This week, a court agreed with California and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general and ordered RealPage and its landlords to answer to the states’ complaint,” said Attorney General .
“Our lawsuit against RealPage alleges it misused private and sensitive consumer data to take the competition out of the rental industry, leaving renters no other choice but to pay the inflated prices recommended to landlords. This means that even if rental home supply was high, rent prices stayed the same, and in some cases, rents went up. This conduct is unacceptable and illegal. My office looks forward to continuing our work to hold RealPage and landlords accountable and is committed to tackling anticompetitive conduct that is illegally increasing the cost of living for Californians,” he added.
The office described RealPage’s model as one that amasses nonpublic pricing data from competing landlords and shares that information among subscribers; landlords provide the data knowing it will be used to recommend prices not only for their units but also for competitors, and the office alleges RealPage’s recommendations enabled uniform price increases that removed competition and raised rents.
The attorney general’s office said it has settled with two property managers, including a $7 million settlement with LivCor and a separate settlement with Greystar; those deals require the companies to stop using nonpublic data from other landlords to set rents. California’s lawsuits against Camden, Pinnacle, Willow Bridge and RealPage are ongoing, and the complaint asks the court to block the sharing of nonpublic information and coordination that the office says inflates rent prices.
The office framed the case against a backdrop of long‑running housing shortages in California; it said the state has 17 million renters and estimates 700,000 Californians are at risk of eviction.
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Rob Bonta
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