The policies enforced by particular offices (often based on an excess of caution, and often based on mythology of law rather than actual legal advice) are a different thing than the law. It absolutely is <i>not</i> illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate (and, in fact, most agents I&#x27;ve dealt with or encountered will, though rather than providing their opinion they will rather directly provide statistical data which answers that question -- and others -- with comparative information; the package I got from the agent for the last house I considered buying included not only school performance information for the neighborhood compared to other areas in the region, but also income information, family size information, and other demographics.)<p>Providing a bare and unsupported simple subjective &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot; answer is probably more legally dangerous than providing factual information, <i>not</i> because &quot;good schools&quot; is dog whistle for &quot;white neighborhood&quot; (in fact, its neither illegal nor uncommon to provide factual information which fairly directly gives information about ethnic&#x2F;racial demographics), but because someone else might convince a court that your description was slanted because you were trying to steer the buyer based on <i>your</i> perception of <i>their</i> racial fit, rather than trying to provide them factual information about the existing character of the neighborhood which might be relevant to their decision.