{"id":2290,"date":"2025-11-27T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:20:40","slug":"algorithmic-rent-pricing-scheme-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/27\/algorithmic-rent-pricing-scheme-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithmic rent pricing scheme axed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/15\/landlords-in-washington-dc-accused-of-using-software-to-keep-rent-high\/\">earlier<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/02\/data-and-algorithms-used-for-housing-prices-collusion\/\">posts<\/a> I reblogged about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realpage.com\/\">RealPage<\/a> collusion scheme to jack up rent prices. After some time, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/11\/realpage-agrees-to-change-algorithm-so-landlords-cant-collude-on-price-hikes\/\">Ars Technica now reports<\/a> on a pending court settlement that requires RealPage to change how its software algorithm pushes up prices and favors the interests of landlords over renters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1162\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414-407x700.jpg 407w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414-768x1322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1414-892x1536.jpg 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1162px) 100vw, 1162px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>if a court approves the deal, RealPage has agreed to update its software so that rival landlords cannot access \u201ccompetitively sensitive information to determine rental prices in runtime operation.\u201d Additionally, RealPage will \u201cremove or redesign features that limited price decreases or aligned pricing between competing users of the software.\u201d And the company will \u201ccooperate in the United States\u2019 lawsuit against property management companies that have used its software.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving forward, the company will also stop training its models on \u201cactive lease data\u201d and \u201ccease conducting market surveys\u201d that included a broad set of landlords who didn\u2019t even use its software \u201cto collect competitively sensitive information.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Good thing for the US housing market, where the scarcity of houses coupled with the fundamental information inequality between landlords and renters that drives this structural exploitation is made a little less wide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two earlier posts I reblogged about a RealPage collusion scheme to jack up rent prices. 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