Landlord–Tenant
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Settled
JBG Smith agreed to pay $8.1 million and Mid-America Apartment Communities $1.2 million to settle the D.C. Attorney General's claims that both landlords used RealPage's software to coordinate apartment rents.
The District of Columbia's Attorney General announced on September 14, 2026 that JBG Smith (through JBG Associates, L.L.C.) and Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (MAA) agreed to consent judgments resolving the District's claims that both landlords used RealPage's revenue-management software to coordinate apartment rents, part of the District's broader suit against RealPage and a group of its largest landlords, No. 2023-CAB-006762 in D.C. Superior Court. JBG Smith will pay $8.1 million, tied to its use of the software across multiple District properties, and MAA will pay $1.2 million, tied to a single District property, for a combined $9.3 million; neither company admitted wrongdoing, and both accepted multi-year prospective restrictions on using shared-data pricing software.
$9.3 million combined ($8.1 million JBG Smith / $1.2 million MAA)
Why it matters: The settlements add two more names to a rapidly growing list of RealPage-related resolutions across the DOJ's case, the Tennessee multidistrict class litigation, and a string of state attorneys general suits, confirming that enforcement authorities will pursue antitrust liability even against a landlord whose software use was limited to a single property. REIT landlords and managers still facing RealPage exposure should expect a settlement path combining a payment scaled to the extent of their software use with years-long forward commitments on data-sharing and pricing-software practices.
Sep 14, 2026
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Construction Defect
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Ruling Issued
A D.C. court awarded the Wardman Tower condo association $118,695,171 against JBG Smith over defects in its hotel-to-condo conversion, trebled to roughly $356.1 million under consumer-protection law.
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia entered judgment on July 31 in Wardman Tower Residential Condominium Unit Owners Association v. JBG Smith Properties, et al., No. 2020 CA 004807 B, awarding the condo association $118,695,171 in compensatory damages and trebling that figure to roughly $356.1 million under the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act. The suit, filed in 2020, alleged that JBG Smith's 2017 conversion of the historic Wardman Tower hotel into a 32-unit luxury condominium building involved construction and design defects in the elevators, electrical systems, and foundation that were misrepresented to buyers as "well-built."
$118.7M compensatory, trebled to ~$356.1M under D.C.'s Consumer Protection Procedures Act, plus attorneys' fees to be determined
Why it matters: Shows how a consumer-protection statute with mandatory treble damages can multiply an already large construction-defect compensatory award several times over, turning a conventional building-systems defect claim into potential existential litigation exposure for a public REIT. Developers of historic conversions and adaptive-reuse projects should treat sales and marketing representations about renovated building systems as carrying consumer-protection liability, not just contract-warranty risk, particularly in jurisdictions with uncapped or mandatory trebling provisions like D.C.'s CPPA.
Jul 31, 2026
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
