Legal pressure is mounting on a property-management software company facing allegations that it illegally fixes apartment rent prices at buildings across the U.S. State and district attorneys general in Arizona and Washington, D.C., are suing RealPage, and more than a dozen of its landlord customers.
But President Biden has made rental building owners a particular focus. “We’re cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price-fixing and driving up rents,” he said last month during his State of the Union address.
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