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April 14, 2026

Algorithmic Cartel Contagion

Is your pricing software a secret cartel? Priyanshu (Pri) Adathakkar examines the DOJ investigation into RealPage’s YieldStar and the risks of “Black Box” rent-fixing.
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The Federal Workforce Crisis is a Commercial Real Estate Crisis
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In commercial real estate, the most expensive mistake you can make is following the crowd. While the market chases yesterday’s winners, the real value is hidden in the friction points—the zoning shifts, the labor demographics, and the structural potential of adaptive reuse.

 

I’m Priyanshu Adathakkar, and this is Pri’s Perspective.

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image Visualizing how competing buildings are "infected" by a single shared algorithm. A dark, clinical background. In the center, a glowing, golden brain or "Central Processing Unit" rendered in Accent Gold. Thin, glowing golden "nerves" or data lines extend outward from this central brain, plugging into the roofs of several different apartment buildings that are rendered in a cold Surface. Text Overlay: DIAGNOSIS: ALGORITHMIC CARTEL CONTAGION. One brain. Your rent.
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Algorithmic Cartel Contagion
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In this episode of The CRE Clinic, Chief of Surgery Priyanshu (Pri) Adathakkar performs a high-stakes biopsy on the multifamily housing market’s “Patient Zero”: the RealPage YieldStar Algorithm.

What sits at the intersection of a conspiracy theory and a massive federal investigation? We break down the “Algorithmic Cartel Contagion”—a digital pathogen that allegedly allows competing landlords to coordinate rent hikes and artificially constrict supply. With the Department of Justice and state Attorneys General moving in for “regulatory surgery,” Pri discusses the terminal risks of relying on “Black Box” pricing.

Tune in to learn why your yield management software might be underwriting a lawsuit, and how to re-inoculate your pro forma with manual market vitals through 2026.

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