North Carolina reaffirms commitment to RealPage lawsuit
March 3, 2026
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson recently reaffirmed his commitment to the state’s ongoing lawsuit against RealPage and several landlords sued by the state for utilizing RealPage software.
On February 12, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office released a video about the state’s recent settlements with the landlords Greystar and Cortland Management in regards to the landlords’ usage of RealPage.
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In the video, Jeff Jackson alleged that RealPage’s data sharing was “plainly against the law.” He continued, “If these owners met in a back room somewhere and shared a bunch of data all for the purpose of seeing how much they can charge you for rent,that would be price fixing, and that’s against the law. This is no different, it’s just using software instead of a back room.”
North Carolina along with seven other states and the US Department of Justice announced its lawsuit against RealPage in 2024, and in 2025 amended the lawsuit to name seven landlords Greystar, Cortland Management, Blackstone’s LivCor, Cushman and Wakefield, Pinnacle Property Management Services, Willow Bridge Property Company, and Camden Property Trust. North Carolina settled with Cortland Management in April 2025, with Cortland Management agreeing to stop engaging in sharing pricing information with competitors. In November 2025, North Carolina and eight other states settled with Greystar for $7 million, with the landlord also agreeing to stop engaging in price-sharing.
In November 2025. RealPage settled the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the corporation. North Carolina has still not settled with RealPage or remaining landlords. On not yet settling with RealPage, Jackson acknowledged that while RealPage has settled with the DOJ, the state of North Carolina has not, adding, “If I can’t get a fair deal from them, I’ll just take them to trial, and we’ll let a jury decide.”
This is not the first time an Attorney General has addressed the desire for continued litigation against RealPage. In March 2025, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wrote a public letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging the Department of Justice to continue its lawsuit against RealPage stating, “I intend to press forward with the case I filed in Arizona against Real Page, but I also urge the Trump administration, through the DOJ, to see its case through.”
She continued to write, “RealPage and its co-conspirators engaged in unfair and anticompetitive practices that forced families to pay artificially high rents at a time when many are struggling to get by. Addressing this issue is essential to making housing more affordable—not just in Arizona, but across the country.”
While RealPage has settled with the DOJ, the state of Arizona is still pursuing litigation against RealPage and several other landlords accused of using the software. In addition to North Carolina and Arizona, other states still have ongoing lawsuits against RealPage including Maryland, New Jersey,Kentucky and DC along with the states that originally served as co-plaintiffs on the DOJ’s lawsuit against the corporation which were California, Colorado, Coneticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington.
Attorney General Jackson’s public confirmation that he intends to pursue North Carolina’s lawsuit against RealPage is a reminder to Thoma Bravo’s institutional investors that despite RealPage’s recent settlement with the DOJ, the corporation’s legal woes are not completely over. In addition to the ongoing state lawsuits, RealPage and landlords that utilized the software are still navigating class action lawsuits. The usage of RealPage is also banned statewide in New York and California. Investors should ask Thoma Bravo what the firm intends to do to handle the financial impacts of the lawsuits that have yet to settle. Also, if AGs make statements similar to Jeff Jackson, RealPage’s impact on the housing market could continue to pose a headline risk for investors.
