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Coordinating function

Collecting rental market information (like prices or supply) from two or more landlords, analyzing it with shared software or methods, and then recommending rental prices or occupancy levels back to those landlords.

Coordinator

Any person or company that performs the 'coordinating function' described above for landlords, including a landlord doing it for their own benefit if it involves data from multiple properties.

Rental property owner

Any individual, company, or organization that owns real estate and rents or leases it out, such as landlords of houses or apartment complexes.

Per se violation

A type of action, like price fixing, that is considered illegal under antitrust law regardless of whether it actually caused harm or had good intentions. Proof of the action alone is enough for it to be unlawful.

Sherman Act

A foundational U.S. antitrust law from 1890 that prohibits certain business practices deemed to be anti-competitive, such as monopolies and agreements that restrain trade (like price fixing).

Federal Trade Commission Act

A U.S. law that prohibits unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).