Ask HN: Is allowing home buyers to sort home searches by school rating legal?

Almost all the home listing sites allow sorting/filtering by properties that are inherent to the home such as size, price, location, number of bedrooms etc.

If you select any given home based on search criteria from the properties mentioned above, data is presented to you on that home such as school rating or even property tax information.

This sounds reasonable because you never selected the home based on a school rating.

I’m trying to figure out if choosing a home based on school rating is considered steering and hence why these sites don’t allow one to sort/filter by school rating, for example.

I doubt it. As a parent and homeowner in CA who also had rented in several places, "which school district does this house belongs to?" is an essential question. (And it's not like the information is hidden, anyway.) Any real estate agent who doesn't talk about schools won't go very far.

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