HR 10110
To require the disclosure of algorithmic price fixing in the housing rental market, and for other purposes.
TL;DR
Rep. Kathy Castor's bill would force landlords and property managers to disclose when they use algorithms or AI software (like RealPage's YieldStar) to set rental prices. It targets the growing concern that landlords using the same pricing software are effectively coordinating rent hikes across markets.
How This Might Impact Your Business
Landlords, property management companies, and multifamily housing operators using pricing algorithms would need to disclose that fact to tenants and prospective renters.
PropTech vendors selling rental pricing software (RealPage, Yardi, AppFolio, and similar) would face new transparency scrutiny and potential client pushback.
Institutional real estate investors and REITs with large residential portfolios face the highest exposure, since algorithmic pricing tools are most common at scale.
Small mom-and-pop landlords using spreadsheets or manual pricing would largely be unaffected, though the bill text does not yet specify a size threshold.
Disclosure requirements could fuel private lawsuits and state AG investigations under existing antitrust theories already being tested in cases like the DOJ suit against RealPage.
Compliance costs would include updating lease documents, marketing materials, and tenant communications to include algorithmic pricing disclosures.
The bill is in early committee stage (House Energy and Commerce), so no immediate deadlines apply, but it signals bipartisan momentum on algorithmic pricing concerns.
What Should You Do
Inventory whether your company or your property managers use algorithmic pricing tools like RealPage YieldStar, Yardi Revenue IQ, or similar, and document the data inputs.
Ask your legal team to review current antitrust exposure given the ongoing DOJ RealPage litigation, regardless of whether this bill passes.
If you are a PropTech vendor, prepare a customer-facing explanation of how your algorithm works and what data it uses; clients will start asking.
Track the bill through House Energy and Commerce and monitor parallel state efforts in California, New York, and Minnesota, which have moved faster than Congress.
Draft template disclosure language now so you are not scrambling if this or a state equivalent passes.
Who It Affects
Sponsors
Status Timeline
committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
August 17, 2026