Court Sides with Attorney General Bonta in RealPage Case, Denies RealPage and Landlords’ Attempt to Evade Responsibility in Rent Pricing Lawsuit

October 2, 2026 Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a bipartisan coalition of nine states celebrated a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, ruling in favor of the coalition, refusing to let landlords out of the case, and denying software company RealPage’s attempt to have the ongoing rent-pricing algorithm case against the company thrown out. In 2024, Attorney General Bonta, the U.S. Department of Justice, and a coalition of states sued RealPage, alleging that the software company used landlords’ competitively sensitive data to create a pricing algorithm that violated antitrust laws. In 2025, the parties filed an amended complaint , adding some of the largest property management companies in the country as defendants — Camden, Pinnacle, LivCor, Willow Bridge and Greystar — alleging defendants maintained an unlawful pricing alignment scheme that artificially inflated rent prices and illegally maintained a minimum pricing floor against market trends, and that not only RealPage, but the landlords that profited from this scheme must be held accountable. “Both RealPage and the lar

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