Overview
- The settlement prohibits Greystar from using any rent-pricing software that shares nonpublic data to align rents across roughly 950,000 units.
- Greystar admitted no wrongdoing and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s ongoing antitrust probe into RealPage.
- The decree requires an independent monitor for any future pricing algorithms and bars participation in RealPage-hosted pricing events.
- A federal judge in North Carolina must approve the consent decree before it takes effect.
- A separate FTC and Colorado lawsuit alleging misleading leases and undisclosed fees against Greystar remains pending with potential resolution expected soon.