Federal prosecutors allege that the landlords have used RealPage pricing software to collude and artificially raise rents. The legal action is the latest development stemming from a 2022 ProPublica investigation.

Prosecutors said the landlords used an algorithm to help set rents and privately shared sensitive information with their own competitors to boost profits.

The U.S. Department of Justice and 10 state attorneys general have ramped up their antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a property management software compa

The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amended complaint Tuesday alleging six of the nation’s largest landlords — including Dallas-based Willow Bridge Property Co. — participated in an illegal scheme allowing landlords to increase rental prices and decrease competition.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high

The Justice Department is adding six major apartment landlords to its lawsuit against real-estate software company RealPage, expanding the scope of its allegations that the rent-setting algorithm enabled illegal price fixing.

The Justice Department, with its state co-plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint Tuesday in its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, to sue Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC (Greystar); Blackstone's LivCor LLC (LivCor);

The U.S. Justice Department is suing six major landlords for allegedly collaborating to keep rents high. The lawsuit accuses the landlords of using RealPage's rent-setting algorithm and sharing sensitive data to avoid lowering rents.