RealPage Rent Pricing Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Tenants Charged Inflated Rates

Bryant Romano filed a class action complaint on July 6 in King County Superior Court against RealPage Inc. and UDR Inc., alleging violation of a Seattle city ordinance that prohibits use of algorithmic software to recommend rental prices. The case was removed to U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on August 5. Romano seeks to represent hundreds of Seattle tenants who rented from apartments owned or managed by UDR after the city ordinance became effective.

RealPage provides technology and software services to the real estate industry, including rent-pricing algorithms. The lawsuit alleges that RealPage's algorithmic pricing software enabled competing landlords to coordinate rental rates, artificially inflating housing costs beyond competitive market levels. The case joins a broader federal multidistrict litigation pending before Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, where additional RealPage rent-pricing claims are consolidated.

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