Settlement Reached That Limits Your Landlord’s Favorite Alleged Rent-Fixing Software

The Department of Justice and the real estate platform RealPage just made a deal, and since it doesn’t completely dismantle RealPage, it’s not going to be seen as a total victory for tenants who hate RealPage. But it’s something, and it will most likely weaken the platform’s power to raise rents, as it will now be prevented from shuffling together nonpublic information from competing landlords when setting prices.

According to the New York Times RealPage still denies having…