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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Realtors aren’t allowed to make those comments[/b], so I’d take whatever she said with a grain of salt.

If you are looking for gifted programming, FCPS is much more robust in elementary.

If you’re looking at high school, it’s the same.[/quote]

Allowed? Who enforces this?[/quote]

In Virginia, the Fair Housing Office. But also HUD and the Real Estate Board in Virginia. The agent’s broker would probably fire the agent if they knew what was said because of the legal hellscape they just exposed the broker to. [/quote]

For more specifics : https://www.nar.realtor/articles/steering-schools-and-equal-professional-service

[quote]“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin. Steering on the basis of any of the characteristics defined under the Fair Housing Act is not only unethical, it’s illegal because it limits the housing opportunities available to that buyer. Steering occurs when an agent limits the housing options available to a buyer by directing prospective homebuyers interested in equivalent properties to different neighborhoods or communities or even different parts of the same development according to the buyer’s race or other characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act. One way such “directing” can occur is through comments by an agent, either positive or negative, about a community. For example, if an agent limits or does not provide housing options to a buyer in a community because of the community’s racial composition, that agent may effectively be making housing unavailable. Or if an agent expresses his or her own positive or negative views about certain communities or schools, the purpose of which is to direct a buyer either towards or away from a community, then that agent may be stating a housing preference based on race or familial status or religion. These would be violations of the Fair Housing Act and of the REALTORS® Code of Ethics.[/quote][/quote]

No evidence that the agent said anything based on race or other relevant characteristics.  More likely the agent was trying to sell a particular house and touted FCPS over LCPS.[/quote]

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