Court Sides with Attorney General Jeff Jackson in RealPage Case; Antitrust Lawsuit Over Rent Pricing to Continue

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Friday, October 2, 2026
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RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s bipartisan antitrust lawsuit over RealPage’s rent-pricing algorithm will continue after a court ruled in favor of Attorney General Jackson and denied the software company’s attempts to have the case thrown out.

“RealPage helped landlords rig the system and charge people more at a time when North Carolinians are already struggling to pay their rent,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “They tried to get our case thrown out, but the judge just said no. We’ll continue fighting to shut this illegal scheme down.”

North Carolina, the U.S. Department of Justice, and a coalition of other 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.

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 Jackson 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, Willow Bridge Property Company LLC, and Cortland Management 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 Jackson has settled with three of the landlords. Most recently, he joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in reaching a $7 million settlement with LivCor, a major landlord with approximately 3,500 apartments in North Carolina. Under the settlement, LivCor will stop using non-public data from other landlords to set rents. Attorney General Jackson previously reached settlements with Greystar and Cortland, the largest and second-largest landlords in North Carolina.

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 Jackson is joined in continuing the lawsuit by the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, and Tennessee.

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