法院驳回RealPage与大房东撤案动议 加州租金定价算法案继续审理
Oakland——加州总检察长罗布·邦塔（Rob Bonta）办公室10月2日宣布，北卡罗来纳州中区联邦地方法院裁定支持加州牵头的多州联盟：驳回软件公司RealPage要求撤案的动议，也拒绝让作为被告的大型房东退出案件，由邦塔、美国司法部与多州联盟提起的租金定价算法案将继续审理。
2024年，邦塔与美国司法部及多州联盟起诉RealPage，指其利用房东的竞争敏感数据生成定价算法，违反反垄断法。2025年，各方提交修订起诉书，将Camden、Pinnacle、LivCor、Willow Bridge、Greystar等全国最大的几家物业管理公司追加为被告，指其维持一套非法价格协同机制，人为推高租金，并逆市场趋势维持最低价格下限。
据总检察长办公室，RealPage汇集互相竞争的房东的敏感数据，用算法不只为单一房东自家房源、也为使用其服务的竞争对手推荐价格，使租金即便在房源供应充足时也居高不下、甚至继续上涨。加州有1700万租房者，估计约70万人面临被驱逐的风险。
邦塔表示：「RealPage和使用它的大型房东都试图逃避责任，他们的行为在全国人为推高了租金。本周，法院支持了加州和两党总检察长联盟，要求RealPage及其房东就各州的指控作出答辩。我们的诉讼指RealPage滥用私密敏感的消费者数据，消除了租赁行业的竞争，让租房者别无选择，只能支付向房东推荐的虚高价格。」
邦塔此前已与两家房东达成和解：最近一次是与多州联盟共同与LivCor达成700万美元和解，另与Greystar达成和解。针对Camden、Pinnacle、Willow Bridge与RealPage的诉讼仍在继续，科罗拉多、康涅狄格、伊利诺伊、马萨诸塞、明尼苏达、北卡罗来纳、俄勒冈、田纳西等州总检察长共同参与。诉讼请求法院禁止该公司及其合作的物业管理公司共享非公开信息、协同抬高租金。
Court Denies RealPage and Landlords' Bid to Escape Rent-Pricing Lawsuit Backed by California
OAKLAND — A federal judge in North Carolina has denied RealPage's and major landlords' attempt to escape a rent-pricing lawsuit brought by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of states, Bonta's office announced on October 2. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled in favor of the coalition, refused to let the landlords out of the case, and denied the software company's motion to have the case thrown out.
In 2024, Bonta, the Justice Department and the states sued RealPage, alleging the company used landlords' competitively sensitive data to create a pricing algorithm that violated antitrust laws. In 2025, an amended complaint added some of the largest property management companies in the country — Camden, Pinnacle, LivCor, Willow Bridge and Greystar — alleging they maintained an unlawful pricing alignment scheme that artificially inflated rents and maintained a minimum pricing floor against market trends.
According to the Attorney General, RealPage amasses competitively sensitive data from competing landlords and uses it to recommend prices not just for a landlord's own units but across rival subscribers, so that rents stayed the same — or rose — even when rental supply was high. California has 17 million renters, and an estimated 700,000 Californians are at risk of eviction.
"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," Bonta said. "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."
Bonta has already settled with two landlords, most recently joining a bipartisan coalition in a $7 million settlement with LivCor; he has also reached a settlement with Greystar. The lawsuits against Camden, Pinnacle, Willow Bridge and RealPage remain ongoing, joined by the attorneys general of Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee. The suit asks the court to stop the company and the property managers it works with from sharing non-public information and working together to inflate rents.
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