Feds’ Rent-Fixing Suit Proceeds

NC federal judge won’t throw out government suit against landlords

A federal judge has denied multiple requests to throw out a lawsuit North Carolina, nine other states, and the federal government filed against landlords accused of using the RealPage software to keep rents high.

Feds’ rent-fixing suit proceeds

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina federal court denied a rental property management software company’s motion to dismiss antitrust claims filed by the federal government and several states. The parties entered into a consent decree restricting the firm’s ability to use renter data to set prices across wide ares of the country, but the judge found the government’s claims were not moot, and that the use of pooled renter data by the company and o…