Renters across the United States and its territories have until January 29, 2027 to file a claim in the RealPage rental-software antitrust settlement, which sets aside $359,925,000 for people who paid rent on a lease at a property that used RealPage pricing tools. The claim window opened ahead of a court hearing that has not yet happened, and the settlement site says no payment amounts have been set.
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Who sits inside the class, and which software counts
The case is In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II), pending in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. Its class period reaches back to October 2018 and runs through November 21, 2025, so a renter who has since moved, or whose building changed owners, can still be inside it.
According to the official settlement website, the class is made up of persons and entities in the United States and its territories who paid rent on at least one multifamily residential lease directly to an owner, manager or owner-operator. The property had to be one using RealPage’s software at some point between October 18, 2018 and November 21, 2025.
Four RealPage products define that last condition: Revenue Management Solutions (RMS), LRO, YieldStar and AIRM. A renter will rarely know which one a landlord ran, which is why the administrator publishes a property lookup. The site’s wording is blunt on one point: submitting a claim is the only way to be eligible to receive payment from the settlements.
A $359.9 million fund and no published formula
The fund stands at $359,925,000, but the website does not say how individual payments will be calculated, and distributions follow court approval. No figure per renter has been published anywhere in the material the administrator makes public, so any per-household number circulating online is a guess rather than a settlement term.
That gap matters for judging effort. A renter with a short lease at a single address and a renter who rented at three addresses across seven years face the same deadline, but nothing on the site indicates whether the payout will track rent paid, months leased or something simpler. Until a distribution plan is published, the deadline is the only firm number in the case.
From October 2, 2026, the deadline is 119 days away, a little under four months.
What the October 15 fairness hearing does and does not change
The court has set a fairness hearing for October 15, 2026, where the judge decides whether to give the settlement final approval. Attending is optional, and the site asks visitors to check back for updates. The claim window runs well past that date, so a renter does not need to wait for the hearing outcome before filing, and the January 29, 2027 cutoff stays in place whichever way the schedule moves.
The administrator posts the claim form as a PDF, and claims can also be submitted online on its claim page.
The form itself is specific. It asks for a name, mailing address, email and phone number and two yes-or-no questions on whether the claimant rented a multifamily apartment in the class period and paid rent directly to an entity on the settlement’s property list. For each residence, it asks for the full street address with unit number, the lease start month and year, the monthly rent and the number of months leased. Supporting records are requested, such as a lease, a rent ledger, canceled checks or redacted bank statements. Payment is chosen from PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, a prepaid card or a check, and the form is signed under penalty of perjury. Paper claims go to a post office box in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
The settlement website lists forty settling defendants, among them Equity Residential, Camden Property Trust and Greystar Management Services, but it assigns no dollar amount to any one of them, only the combined $359,925,000 fund. The deadline for opting out or objecting was September 22, 2026, and it has already passed, so a renter who stays in the class gives up the right to sue the settling defendants separately over the same claims.
Matching seven years of leases to a class period built on four products
The practical difficulty is reconstruction. The class period covers roughly seven years and one month, the qualifying condition depends on which of four pricing products a property used, and the administrator’s own property list, not the lease, is where the software link is recorded. A renter has to line up each address and each lease start and end date against October 18, 2018 through November 21, 2025, then test the address against the administrator’s property lookup.
Because no per-claimant amount is published, there is also no way to weigh that effort against a likely payment. Leases from before a move, and buildings that changed hands during the period, are the cases where a renter has to work out for themselves which dates count, and the claim form is the only place the site says a claim can be made.
The official route needs nothing beyond the administrator’s own site: the claim form, the FAQ and the property lookup are all published there.
Services that track open settlements for members
The RealPage claim window stays open until January 29, 2027, and the amounts and approval schedule may still change. MoneyPilot is a paid subscription service that lists open class-action settlements and shows which ones may match a member. It files claim forms for members and tracks deadlines and payout status.
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This article was drafted with AI assistance and checked against the settlement administrator’s published pages.
