Right, I think that's not the only distinction here. Yes, Realpage pushes its customers to accept its recommendations. But by centralizing where this research i

Right, I think that's not the only distinction here. Yes, Realpage pushes its customers to accept its recommendations. But by centralizing where this research is done, it doesn't have to do that to be engaging in anticompetitive behavior, because it also aggregates data volunteered by other organizations you might be nominally competing with, and the more people are using this service, the less likely a competitor might have some information that's not publicly available (or even that is available but isn't part of some standard method of analysis) they might be using to compete on price. The centralization of this service across competing organizations unto itself is a form of price-fixing, regardless of whether the company also demands that you use its estimates