High rent prices in D.C. have long frustrated residents in the District. “When I was looking at prices, I said, ‘Can you write down the prices of the units we saw?’ And they said no because the prices change every day,

On Tuesday, the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against six major landlords. It accuses them of working together to keep rent prices high.

Cushman & Wakefield was among six large landlords sued by the Justice Department over alleged anticompetitive practices in housing rental markets, the DOJ said Tuesday. The companies were added to the DOJ’s lawsuit in North Carolina accusing property management software company RealPage of letting landlords collude by sharing their pricing information with the company’s software,

The Justice Department is suing six of the country's largest landlords, alleging they took part in a pricing scheme that harmed renters.