Apartments at the Spring District in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) With the changing of the guard in Washington comes uncertainty as to how the new administration will choose to ...

SEATTLE — A software company and nine property management groups are being accused of artificially inflating rents. An investigation found the software that sparked the lawsuit is used by management ...

SEATTLE – Seattle is on track to ban landlords’ use of controversial rent-setting software that has been under legal fire for years. A Seattle City Council committee on Wednesday advanced a bill to ...

With home affordability in the Bay Area already out of control, a federal antitrust lawsuit against a property management software company has prompted San Jose officials to consider ways to protect ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a lawsuit against a rental software company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for landlords to use in assessing rental market prices as ...

“RENTmaximizer effectively outsources the management of rental pricing from a landlord to Yardi itself, which then implements higher prices collectively across a group of landlords,” the lawsuit ...

When the U.S. Department of Justice sued RealPage and six of the largest rental property landlords in the nation over alleged price fixing — illegal price gouging — it came to light that Austin was ...

Think about starting your day with a flood of emails: maintenance requests, resident complaints, lease renewals, late payments, and board questions. For property management companies, this is the ...

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