&quot;It absolutely is not illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate&quot;<p>As applied in the US (not the original article, but I suspect where nsxwolf is talking about), the Federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) would prohibit certain questions from being answered.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jmls.edu&#x2F;clinics&#x2F;fairhousing&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;fair-housing-primer.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jmls.edu&#x2F;clinics&#x2F;fairhousing&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;fair-housing-pri...</a>