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The RealPage Fallout Is Changing How Landlords Think About Data

RealPage built the algorithm behind one of the most widely used rent-pricing tools in multifamily real estate, but when the legal reckoning over its use came, the financial consequences landed almost entirely on the landlords who licensed it rather than the company that built it. Since the Department of Justice filed its antitrust lawsuit in 2024, settlements from operators using RealPage's software have climbed to nearly $360 million, even as RealPage itself paid no fines and admitted no wrongdoing in its own settlement with regulators.

The fallout is changing how real estate operators evaluate technology before they ever sign a contract. Vendor conversations that once focused on functionality and price now dig into data architecture itself: what gets collected, where it goes, who can see it, and what happens if a vendor is acquired or a contract ends.

With no single national privacy standard to follow, many operators and vendors are defaulting to compliance with California's Consumer Privacy Act, widely considered the strictest framework in the country, as a way to stay protected regardless of which state a given property sits in. The broader lesson real estate companies have taken from RealPage is that legal liability follows the data, not the company that built the software, and that scrutiny over how that data is collected, used, and protected is only intensifying.

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Class-Action Suit Accuses Data Providers and Brokerages of Rent Collusion

FitFactariDC LLC filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on June 12 against CoStar Group, CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, and Newmark. The suit alleges a hub-and-spoke price-fixing conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Act, claiming CoStar collected and redistributed sensitive lease information while the five brokerages submitted their data to gain access to competitors' figures. FitFactariDC, a commercial tenant that signed an office lease in Denver brokered by one of the defendants, claims it paid artificially inflated effective rents as a result of the alleged information sharing. The complaint states that defendants used near-real-time visibility into competitors' lease terms to align asking rents, reduce concessions, and resist tenant negotiations.
CoStar General Counsel Gene Boxer called the complaint "slapdash" and lacking in facts, arguing that transparent market data improves market efficiency and benefits all participants, including tenants. Arlington, Virginia-based CoStar has gathered and protected its market data since 1987 and considers it an essential tool used by brokerages, landlords, property owners, investors, and tenants. Devin Freedman of Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, the firm representing FitFactariDC, said the complaint shows how CoStar gave competing brokerages access to each other's private deals, resulting in less competition and higher rents. CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, and Newmark did not respond to requests for comment, while Colliers declined to comment.
The lawsuit challenges the operating framework for much of commercial real estate, where CoStar serves as a primary source of market intelligence. The case echoes antitrust charges against Texas-based RealPage, which settled with the federal government late last year and agreed to restrictions on how it suggests rents and trains its AI models. CoStar faces a separate class-action lawsuit filed in April by a boutique brokerage alleging monopolization of the online CRE listing space, and Crexi is suing CoStar over claims of an illegal data monopoly in a case the Supreme Court allowed to proceed in March.
 
Fast Take

Huntington Beach Adopts Housing Plan Under Court Pressure and Mounting Fines

Huntington Beach approved a state-mandated housing element this week after years of legal resistance, with city leaders describing the decision as forced compliance to avoid escalating financial penalties. A judge is scheduled to rule next month on whether to increase the city's current $50,000 monthly fines to $150,000 for prolonged noncompliance with state housing law. City attorney Anthony Taylor told the council that adopting a substantially compliant plan offers the best defense against additional penalties, though several council members said they would continue challenging state housing mandates.
Councilman Don Kennedy characterized the approval as the city being "beaten into submission," while Mayor Casey McKeon promised to find new avenues to fight for local control. Councilman Chad Williams argued the council lacked authority to act because of Measure U, a voter-approved charter amendment requiring public approval for major zoning changes, but Taylor countered that court-ordered compliance does not trigger that provision. Williams was the sole dissenting vote, with other members acknowledging they disapproved of the plan but could not justify exposing the city to six-figure monthly fines.
Huntington Beach has lost every legal challenge to California's housing element law, including appeals rejected by both the state and U.S. Supreme Courts. The city's extended defiance of Regional Housing Needs Allocation requirements has become a test case for charter city authority over land use, but courts have consistently held that state housing law supersedes local charter provisions. Other California cities facing similar housing production mandates are watching whether Huntington Beach's belated compliance halts enforcement actions or whether the state pursues additional remedies for the years-long delay.

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