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Sixth defendant to settle a multi defendant case against RealPage, the rent pricing software firm accused of letting landlords feed each other's data into shared rent setting algorithms.
A federal court in North Carolina is weighing a proposed consent decree that would require Pinnacle Property Management Services, one of the country's largest landlords, to accept court oversight for using shared rent-pricing software.
Pinnacle is the sixth defendant to settle the same multi-defendant antitrust case, which alleges landlords fed each other's competitively sensitive data into RealPage, the rent-pricing software firm at the center of the case. Earlier settlements with RealPage and four co-defendant landlords (Cortland, Greystar, LivCor, and Willow Bridge) established the same pattern; Pinnacle's proposed decree would extend it.
The original complaint was filed Jan. 7, 2025, and named Pinnacle alongside five other co-defendant landlords. The proposed decree, published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2026, would require Pinnacle to stop using any algorithm that generates pricing recommendations from competitors' competitively sensitive data, to stop sharing such information with competitors, and to accept a court-appointed monitor.
The Justice Department frames the case as an attack on algorithmic coordination that inflated housing costs. The Federal Register notice opens a public comment period before the proposed decree can take effect. The full scope of the court-appointed monitor's authority is not visible in the public press release.