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A Primer (and Some Questions) About the RealPage Antitrust Case
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The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and several states filed suit late last month against the property-management software firm RealPage Inc. for its “unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords use to price apartments.”
While this is not the first case to deal with so-called “algorithmic collusion,” it may nonetheless prove noteworthy to the extent that it signals a new approach that competition enforcers might take to such cases, and to anticompetitive agreements more generally.