Oregon Secures Second $7M Settlement in Algorithmic Rent-Fixing Case
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield reached a $7 million settlement with LivCor on June 22, 2026, making it the second major payout in the state’s ongoing case against landlords who used software to coordinate rent prices. LivCor managed nearly 1,650 Oregon rental properties through the scheme.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2025 with eight other states, targets companies that used pricing software from RealPage, a Texas-based firm. Landlords fed sensitive rental data into RealPage’s algorithm, which then recommended rates across competing properties. That arrangement effectively replaced normal price competition with coordinated pricing, according to the Oregon Department of Justice.
“Landlords don’t get to outsource collusion to an algorithm and call it business as usual.”
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, June 22, 2026
This is the second settlement in the multistate litigation. In November 2025, Rayfield announced a separate $7 million settlement with Greystar, another defendant in the same case. Combined, the two settlements total $14 million.
Three property management companies remain defendants: Camden, Pinnacle, and Willow Bridge. RealPage itself is also still a defendant.
Under the LivCor settlement, the company must stop using RealPage or any comparable software that feeds rival landlords’ pricing data into rent recommendations. LivCor must also stop sharing sensitive pricing information with competing landlords and build an antitrust compliance program. It must cooperate with the state’s ongoing litigation against the remaining defendants.
The nine states in the coalition are Oregon, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Tennessee.
Normal rental market competition requires landlords to attract tenants by lowering prices or improving conditions. RealPage’s model short-circuited that competition by giving participating landlords a common pricing signal, even without direct communication. Antitrust law treats that kind of coordination as illegal whether it happens through a meeting or a shared algorithm.
Settlements like this one establish legal precedent that algorithmic price coordination violates state consumer protection laws, which strengthens the remaining cases against Camden, Pinnacle, Willow Bridge, and RealPage.
What You Can Do Now
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Call your state AG’s office and ask whether your state has joined or is considering joining the multistate RealPage litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General has a directory at naag.org/find-my-ag to locate your AG’s contact page.
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Contact your U.S. senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to support the proposed Preventing Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Services (PAIRS) Act, federal legislation that would ban rent-fixing software across all states, not just those with active lawsuits.
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File a complaint with your state AG if you rent from LivCor, Greystar, Camden, Pinnacle, or Willow Bridge and believe you paid above-market rent since 2019. Oregon renters can file at justice.oregon.gov/consumer. Other states have similar portals through their AG offices.
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Ask your city council to pass a local ordinance banning revenue management software that uses competitor data, as Seattle explored in 2024. Local action can move faster than state litigation and applies pressure while the federal case proceeds.
Sources
- Oregon reaches $7 million settlement with property management company for hiking rent prices — Oregon Capital Chronicle (2026-06-23)
Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon Reaches $7 Million Settlement With LivCor for Rent-Fixing
Oregon Department of Justice: LivCor Settlement Announcement and Case Background
ProPublica: How a Common Rent Algorithm Became a Landlord Cartel
Reuters: RealPage Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Nine State Attorneys General
KFF Health News: Rent Burden and Housing Cost Data for Low-Income Renters