AI Incident Database: RealPage's YieldStar Allegedly Facilitated Rent Price Coordination Among Canadian Landlords
RealPage’s YieldStar algorithm is alleged to have enabled Canadian landlords to coordinate rental pricing by utilizing sensitive, non-public market data. The software has been accused of contributing to rent increases in non-rent-controlled units through purported collusion and artificial price inflation. Tenants have reported significant rent hikes, which they attribute to landlords' use of the algorithm.
AI Incident Database · Incident 894Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
RealPage’s YieldStar algorithm is alleged to have enabled Canadian landlords to coordinate rental pricing by utilizing sensitive, non-public market data. The software has been accused of contributing to rent increases in non-rent-controlled units through purported collusion and artificial price inflation. Tenants have reported significant rent hikes, which they attribute to landlords' use of the algorithm.
Linked entities
- realpage
organisation | 70%
- woodbourne-capital-management-international-lp
organisation | 70%
- tribute-communities
organisation | 70%
- the-rockport-group
organisation | 70%
- tas-impact
organisation | 70%
- riocan-living
organisation | 70%
- rhapsody-property-management-services-llp
organisation | 70%
- gwl-realty-advisors-residential-inc.
organisation | 70%
- first-capital-real-estate-investment-trust
organisation | 70%
- edgar-development-corp.
organisation | 70%
- dream-unlimited-corp.
organisation | 70%
- core-development-group-ltd.
organisation | 70%
- choice-properties-real-estate-investment-trust
organisation | 70%
- canadian-property-managers-using-yieldstar
organisation | 70%
- tenants-in-canada
organisation | 70%
- tenants
organisation | 70%
- public-trust-in-the-rental-market
organisation | 70%
- economically-vulnerable-tenants-in-canada
organisation | 70%
- cynthia-black
organisation | 70%
- economically-vulnerable-people
organisation | 70%
- economically-vulnerable-tenants
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-realpage to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |