How to Join the RealPage Class Action Settlement

If you’re trying to figure out how to join the RealPage class action settlement, the honest answer is that you can’t file a claim yet. The federal case has produced settlements totaling nearly $360 million, but the court still has to approve a notice plan and a distribution plan before the claims window opens.¹ What you can do now is get on the notification list at the official settlement website so you’ll be told when to submit a claim.

What To Do Right Now

Go to realpagerentalsettlement.com and register for updates. The site is run by Angeion Group LLC, the court-appointed claims administrator, and registering puts you on the list to receive notice when the claims period begins.² Signing up for updates is not the same as filing a claim. The site says so directly.

One warning the official site emphasizes: you do not need to pay any third-party company, attorney, or individual to file a claim in this case.² The court has already appointed class counsel — Hausfeld LLP, Robins Kaplan LLP, Scott+Scott, and HSG Law Group — to represent the settlement class at no upfront cost to individual renters.³ If someone contacts you offering to submit a claim for a fee, treat it as a red flag.

The federal case, In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee before Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr.⁴

Who Qualifies for the Settlement

The settlement class covers anyone in the United States who paid rent on a multifamily residential lease directly to one of the named defendant property management companies (or their subsidiaries and affiliates) that used RealPage’s Revenue Management Solutions during the class period. The broadest class period runs from October 18, 2018, through November 21, 2025, though the exact dates can vary by settling defendant.¹

The list of settling defendants runs to roughly 50 property management companies. Among the largest and most recognizable are Greystar Management Services, Equity Residential, Camden Property Trust, Lincoln Property Co., Mid-America Apartment Communities, Cortland Management, BH Management Services, Bozzuto Management Company, Morgan Properties, UDR, Essex Property Trust, and Brookfield Properties Multifamily.² The complete roster, running from Allied Orion Group to ZRS Management, is published on the settlement website.

Eligibility isn’t always obvious from the building’s name. What matters is who owned or managed the property and whether they used RealPage’s pricing software, not what the complex was called. The practical step is to look up who managed your apartment on your lease and check that name against the defendant list. If you can’t tell, class counsel at Hausfeld LLP accept renter inquiries at RealPage@hausfeld.com.¹

How Much Money Is On the Table

Two rounds of settlements have been reached so far. On November 21, 2025, the court granted preliminary approval of 26 settlements with 27 defendants totaling $141.8 million.¹ A breakdown of which company paid what in that first batch hasn’t been publicly released.

A second round followed on May 14, 2026, when 11 additional defendants reached 14 settlements totaling $218 million. The individual amounts in this round are public:⁵

Equity Residential: $56 million
Camden Property Trust: $53 million
Mid-America Apartment Communities: $53 million
Cortland Management: $18 million
Lincoln Property Co.: $12 million
Highmark Residential: $7.5 million
RPM Living: $7.5 million
The Related Companies: $5 million
Sares Regis Management: $3 million
Trammell Crow Residential and Crow Holdings: $2.125 million
Rose Associates: $1 million

Cumulatively that’s nearly $360 million. No per-renter payout estimate has been released, because the distribution plan hasn’t been submitted to the court yet. None of the settling defendants have admitted fault.

Beyond money, the settling defendants have agreed to stop providing RealPage with nonpublic data for pricing recommendations and to stop using RealPage’s revenue management system to set rents based on competitors’ private information.⁵

What Renters Are Being Compensated For

The core allegation is that RealPage’s revenue management software worked as a price-fixing mechanism. Subscribing landlords fed it nonpublic, competitively sensitive information — actual lease prices, occupancy rates, concessions, lease terms — and the algorithm used that pooled data from competing properties to generate rent recommendations.⁶ According to the lawsuits, rival landlords stopped setting rents independently and instead followed the same system’s output.

RealPage’s software products — YieldStar, AI Revenue Management (AIRM), and Lease Rent Options (LRO) — drew from a proprietary warehouse of actual lease transaction data rather than just publicly advertised prices.⁶ The lawsuits also point to user-group meetings where more than 1,000 landlords discussed revenue management strategy, which the plaintiffs characterize as facilitating coordination among competitors. RealPage denies wrongdoing.⁵

The Government Cases Don’t Pay Renters

Two other kinds of legal action are running alongside the class action, and it’s worth knowing they won’t put money in your pocket. The U.S. Department of Justice filed its own civil antitrust suit against RealPage in August 2024 and reached a proposed consent decree in November 2025, approved by a federal judge on May 19, 2026.⁵⁷ The DOJ deal restricts how RealPage’s software can operate but includes no financial penalty and no compensation for renters. Several state attorneys general — including a nine-state coalition that reached a $7 million settlement with Greystar in November 2025 — have brought separate cases with their own remedies.⁸

Money for individual renters is expected to come from the private class action settlements, not the government cases.⁹

What Happens Next

The class action still has procedural steps to clear before renters can act. The court has to approve a notice plan, which will lay out how eligible renters are contacted and what their options are, including any opt-out procedures. It also has to approve a distribution plan, which decides how the settlement funds are divided among class members.¹⁰ Once those pieces are in place, the claims window will open and notice will go out to eligible renters through the settlement website and direct communications from the administrator.¹

RealPage itself remains a defendant in the ongoing federal class action and continues to deny wrongdoing. The company has said it does not expect the settlement terms to require changes to its revenue management products for current customers.⁵

Until the court approves the next steps, the only useful action for a renter is registering at realpagerentalsettlement.com and holding onto any lease records that show who managed your apartment and what you paid.

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