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Virtual staging: The best apps for 2025 + mind-blowing AI picks

Housing Wire

Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? The days of AI-staged photos that look more like Salvador Dali paintings than comfy living rooms or HGTV-ready kitchens are long gone. The images todays virtual staging companies can create using AI are shockingly realistic and, dare we say it, stylish. We think it is.

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Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman: ‘We do tech so you can do real estate’

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Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. Agents have hard jobs and they’re really busy with what they’re doing. This gives good sales agents room to prove themselves.

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With lower costs and other value, rural areas are enticing for older homebuyers

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And while it seems that this is a tactic for elders to avoid high costs, high crime and over development, those who keep an eye on who moves where in America say it has been happening off and on for decades. But the potential value for older homeowners is not strictly monetary, the article said.

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Why real estate professionals must return to old-school thinking in 2025

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For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night. Together, these obstacles are forcing agents and brokerages to hit the sidelines and plan against seemingly insurmountable odds like facing Brady and the Patriots in the Superbowl. What does this look like?

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Compass’s recent performance points to the future of real estate brokerage

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Consumers purchase homes, but Compass touts its technology among prospective real estate agents. Because agents are the heart of the business. Real estate agent may be a single term, but it covers a multitude of functions: presentation, negotiation, consolation, trouble-shooting, travel, project management.

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The AI search revolution: Rethinking real estate content strategy in the era of the AI overview

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It also creates a strategic opportunity for agents who understand modern search behavior and how to connect lifestyle and informational content with listings in meaningful ways. One may also develop community guides highlighting suitable neighborhoods for extended families.

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Compass adds high-producing agent in Washington state

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real estate brokerage Compass announced Wednesday that it has hired Hal Bennett, a high-producing agent based in the Seattle area. Bennett formerly worked with Redfin , where he was recognized by RealTrends among the top-producing agents in the state of Washington in 2023. Bennett ranked No. 16 in the state with 63 sides and was No.

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