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Sell more homes: 17 home staging tips for real estate agents

Housing Wire

Home staging is your chance to transform a property into a home that buyers cant wait to get their hands on. As an agent, you know a beautifully staged home turns into a sold one. Ill discuss 17 home staging tips that will help you transform any property into a must-see listing. Why is home staging important?

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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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Optionality of NAR’s no-commingling rule takes center stage at REX appeal hearing

Housing Wire

Despite noting that it did not support this rule, Zillow claims it was forced to adopt it to obtain IDX feeds from MLSs that had, precipitating the two-tab design for MLS listings and other listings. He also noted that Zillow independently created its two-tab website design and reiterated the fact that Zillow had lobbied NAR against the rule.

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Rocket launches AI-powered website Rocket.com

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The announcement comes shortly after Rocket unveiled the first stage of its rebrand and is a part of the company’s conscious effort to unify Rockets many companies under a single umbrella. The platform combines Rocket Mortgage s award-winning service with Rocket Homes search and deep property insights.

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Marketing Leaders take the stage at HW Annual Oct. 10-12

Housing Wire

Whether you’re in the marketing space, a mortgage executive at a lender or real estate leader, we’ve designed this so all attendees can learn from the path these creative and innovative executives have walked to inform your go-to-market strategy for 2024. In four dedicated sessions, our Marketing Leaders will focus on this theme and more.

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Staging a Bedroom: Design Tips to Help You Get the Offer of Your Dreams

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If you’re looking to receive top dollar from your home, have a speedier sale with less time on the market , and appeal to more buyers online and at showings, you should strongly consider staging your home. Here’s what you need to know about staging a bedroom. The kitchen (81%) and dining room (69%) are also common rooms to stage.

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Tennessee official, citing property tax relief, notes more interest in reverse mortgages

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But Tennessee reverse mortgage professional Loren Riddick of Worthington Mortgage Group , who maintains the Certified Reverse Mortgage Professional (CRMP) designation from the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA), was pleased to hear about the observation. And that situation is not unlike countless others from coast to coast.

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