On Friday, August 23, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against software company RealPage, which provides a rental-price-setting service to landlords. It’s not the first lawsuit ...

An attorney representing Richardson-based real estate software firm RealPage denied allegations that it took part in an ...

The White House has accused RealPage, the rental price-setting algorithmic software widely used by landlords and managers, of adding an extra $3.8 billion to tenants’ rents last year.

The algorithm, owned by software developer RealPage, helps landlords determine rents — and, critics have alleged, coordinate pricing between them, amounting to price fixing. The toll was high in ...