A real estate website once accused of facilitating a "housing cartel" has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice.

After a more than year-and-a-half battle, RealPage and the DOJ have come to an agreement that will limit certain features on the app that renters claimed were unfair.

'Replacing competition with coordination ... renters paid the price.'

In 2024, tenants from a popular building in Jersey City, New Jersey, took RealPage to court over allegations of landlords sharing nonpublic information on the website, including vacancy data.

The tenants said the information inflated rental prices, effectively resulting in price-fixing rent across cities due to landlords using the same algorithm to dictate their prices.

In November 2023, the attorney general of Washington,

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