RealPage, maker of YieldStar, is almost singlehandedly the ones causing rent to skyrocket across much of the United States.
One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.
You can learn more about them here and why this antitrust case is so important:
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
Yeah, I feel like people are too focused on whether or not it’s “legally” collusion.
At the end of the day, it’s a single entity with an overrepresneted ability to set prices.