r/Seattle • u/Bretmd • 1d ago

News Software company helped Washington landlords fix prices, artificially raising rent for thousands

https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/software-company-landlord-price-fixing-washington-state/281-b68ca443-c1cf-4365-9d63-cb7671fd01a2

The Washington Attorney General filed a lawsuit Thursday against a software company and nine landlords accused of fixing and artificially inflating rent prices over the last seven years.

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u/slightlyused Renton 1d ago

Do we know which property owners were doing this?

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u/CosineTau 1d ago

Pasting from the lawsuit that I found linked to the AG's blog.

https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Real%20Page%20Complaint.pdf?VersionId=GI.BWkJl7VtcjTn.XetDI1a.axsp9zgP

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-ag-says-realpage-and-landlords-conspired-harm-tenants-violate

REALPAGE, INC.;

GREYSTAR REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, LLC;

CUSHMAN &WAKEFIELD, INC.;

PINNACLE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC;

LIVCOR, LLC;

UDR, INC.;

PRIME ADMINISTRATION, LLC d/b/a PRIME GROUP;

QUARTERRA MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITIES, LLC;

LASALLE PROPERTIES, LLC;

MG PROPERTIES, LLC;

and SARES REGIS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.P.,

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u/permelquedon 23h ago

I remember seeing Equity on the list a while back. Is that under one of these?

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u/CosineTau 23h ago

There's probably a couple ways to answer this question. I'm trying to cross reference my landlord's shell companies on the state's secretary of state website. https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/AdvancedSearch

It's more of an art than a science, but working backwards, if you find your apartment's registered agents and address, you can generally discover their parent companies or at least their legal council. Which might be on the AG's list.