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A West Philadelphia renter has filed a class-action lawsuit against his property manager and a national company that sells property management software, alleging that his landlord used price-setting algorithms that Philadelphia has banned.<\/p>\n

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Since early 2025, Philadelphia has prohibited rental home providers from coordinating to set prices and using software that facilitates the practice. Officials argued that price coordination, especially among large corporate landlords, can lead to artificially inflated rents.<\/p>\n

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This month, renter Yiyao Liu sued Willow Bridge Property Co., which manages his apartment building and is one of the country\u2019s largest residential property managers, and RealPage, an industry leader in software for landlords. Liu alleges that Willow Bridge used RealPageservices to getrent recommendations based on information from competing landlords that is not available to the public, in violation of a Philadelphia ordinance.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit filed in Philadelphia\u2019s Court of Common Pleas is the first known case brought under the city\u2019s ban, according to the office of City Councilmember Nicolas O\u2019Rourke, who introduced legislation in 2024.<\/p>\n

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At the time, O\u2019Rourke said his bill was a preemptive move based on corporate landlords\u2019 use nationwide of software to coordinate rental prices. City Council unanimously passed the legislation in October 2024, and the ordinance went into effect in February 2025.<\/p>\n

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Liu, who lives in the Vue32 apartment building, asks in his lawsuit to represent as a class other tenants of Philadelphia rental units managed by Willow Bridge. <\/p>\n

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A representative from RealPage said Monday that the company does not comment on active litigation, and Willow Bridge\u2019s general counsel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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But in a 2024 statement to 6abc, RealPage said that a lawsuit brought against it sought \u201cto scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Willow Bridge was one of a in its lawsuit, in which it alleged that RealPage\u2019s pricing algorithm violated antitrust laws. The Justice Department reached a settlement with RealPage late last year that does not include admission of guilt or financial penalties.<\/p>\n

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Last month, Washington, D.C.\u2019s Office of the Attorney General announced that it had reached settlements with two landlords it accused of conspiring to inflate rents using RealPage software. The landlords agreed to pay a total of $1.4 million. These were the latest settlements to come from the district\u2019s 2023 lawsuit against RealPage and 14 of the district\u2019s largest residential landlords.<\/p>\n

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In the summer of 2024, San Francisco became the first city in the country to pass a ban on landlords using algorithmic software to set rents. Philadelphia became the second that fall, according to O\u2019Rourke\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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While Council members considered O\u2019Rourke\u2019s legislation, the Pennsylvania Apartment Association said in written testimony that \u201cevery industry relies on internal and external data analyses and responsive pricing technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The association said algorithm-based technologies improve operational efficiency, which \u201cdirectly benefit[s] residents and rental communities.\u201d And it argued that algorithmic software \u201cencourages pricing competition within the marketplace through greater transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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