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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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Homebuilders face rising risk unless mortgage rates fall

Housing Wire

Todays builder survey gives us more clues about what stage they’re in, and it isnt good. If mortgage rates don’t drop, we may see this sector facing supply issues and shrinking profit margins. Why is this important? To avoid a job loss recession, closely monitoring the homebuilding industry is essential.

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

Housing Wire

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. This is Mayberry.

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

Housing Wire

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. This complex project management of a bunch of parties all need to come together to enable that one-stop shop. That’s what technology does.

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Training to lead: How to build leaders in your mortgage business

Housing Wire

Your program should provide a foundation of technical skills but also help participants develop the soft skills they need to guide others effectively. One of the greatest gifts you can give to your organization—and to the people within it—is the opportunity to grow into leadership.

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

Housing Wire

Have a seat and buckle in. The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. What does this look like? Firstly, real estate professionals are facing an unyielding storm of new challenges. Dont waste it.

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Home sales are up over last year

Housing Wire

This week, we count 14% more homes in the contract pending stage now than a year ago. The hardest position to take in analyzing the housing market is one that is contrarian and bullish. When everyone knows that the housing market is sluggish and weak, but the data shows surprising strength. That’s where we are right now.

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