Fair Housing commitment

The commitment

Sir Ashley Harrison supports the letter and the spirit of the Fair Housing Act and of the fair housing rules of both North Carolina and South Carolina. No client is treated differently, and no property or area is presented or withheld, on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, familial status or disability — nor on the basis of any characteristic protected by state or local law. Every household receives the same information and the same standard of service.

Steering, and why good intentions do not help

Steering means directing someone toward or away from a neighbourhood based on a protected characteristic. It is unlawful whether or not it is intended kindly, and — importantly — whether or not the client asked for it. An agent who answers “where do families like us live” with a list of neighbourhoods has steered, even if the list was assembled with nothing but goodwill.

This matters here because relocating buyers ask that question constantly and reasonably. They are not trying to provoke a violation; they are trying to make a decision from four hundred miles away. So the approach on this site is to refuse the framing and answer the substance: lot sizes, parks, housing stock, walkability, commute times, how school assignment works and how to verify it, tax treatment, HOA structures. Facts you can weigh yourself, rather than a conclusion someone else reached about who you are.

The specific rules this site follows

• No rankings of areas. No “best neighbourhoods”, no “top places to live”, no ordered lists. Areas are described by attributes and by who they suit for a stated preference — and every brief also names who should look elsewhere.
• No demographic descriptions of areas. This site does not describe the composition of any area’s population, in any terms, favourable or otherwise. Census data is cited only for regional context such as growth and household counts.
• No safety or crime characterisations. Primary law-enforcement sources are pointed to instead. The statistics are easily misread and the language has a documented history as a proxy for race.
• No school quality claims. Assignment is treated as a verifiable fact, with instructions to confirm it by address in writing. Quality is left to the state report cards and to your judgement.
• Preference-based language only. Areas suit stated preferences — commute tolerance, budget, walkability, space, water access. They are never described as suiting a type of person.
• No protected-class input in any tool. The matchmaker asks about commute, budget, lifestyle priorities, state preference and timeline. It asks nothing about household composition, religion, national origin or disability, and stores no such field.

What the area filters are, exactly

The filters used across this site are the complete set, and each one describes a property or place attribute rather than a category of person: Luxury, New construction, Walkable, Lake, Established, Urban, More space, Under $600K, $1M+, North Carolina, South Carolina. A conventional real estate site would include a “family-friendly” or “family-oriented” filter at this point. This one deliberately does not, because familial status is a protected class and a filter of that kind sorts areas by inferred household type — which is steering with a user interface attached. The objective attributes people are usually reaching for with that filter, such as more space, established streets and lake or park access, are available directly.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodation

Buyers and renters with disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations and, in many circumstances, to make reasonable modifications to a property. If accessibility features are a requirement for your household, say so and the search will be conducted around them as an objective specification — single-level living, doorway widths, entrance grade, bathroom configuration — in the same way any other requirement is handled. This site’s own accessibility standards are set out on the accessibility statement.

If you believe you have been discriminated against

You can file a housing discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and with the North Carolina Human Relations Commission or the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission depending on where the conduct occurred. Complaints about the conduct of a licensed real estate professional can also be made to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission or the South Carolina Real Estate Commission. Those channels exist independently of any brokerage and do not require a lawyer to use. If the concern is about this practice, raise it directly as well — but do not let that replace the formal route if you want it.

Equal Housing Opportunity. Sources registered: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · North Carolina Real Estate Commission · South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.