Construction workers perform tasks on an apartment building in 2019. Algorithmic price estimates, in which landlords might rely on complex data formulas to set rental rates, have become more popular in recent years, but lawsuits question whether the algorithms amount to price-fixing. (Photo by John Raoux/The Associated Press)
Indiana Capital Chronicle: State AGs ramp up scrutiny of alleged price-fixing in rental housing
In the past two years, more than 30 lawsuits have been filed in federal and state courts alleging that companies such as RealPage and Yardi are equipping corporate landlords with software algorithms that allow competitors to collude on rental housing prices.
