Fair Housing
A real estate licensee who teases that an area 'isn't what it used to be' to encourage a homeowner to sell quickly is engaging in:
ALawful market analysis
BBlockbusting — inducing panic sales by implying neighborhood demographic changes✓ Correct
CLegal counseling on market conditions
DProtected free speech
Explanation
Blockbusting (panic selling) involves using implications about racial or ethnic neighborhood change to induce property owners to sell. Suggesting a neighborhood 'isn't what it used to be' with discriminatory implications to prompt panic sales violates the Fair Housing Act, even without explicitly naming a protected class.
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