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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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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.

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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. I believe the White House wants a shift in mortgage rates to avoid this sector going into a recession because it might take some time to get them out of it.

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

Housing Wire

Attendees can find inspirational speakers on stage during the Marketing Leaders sessions. Here’s a list of some of the Marketing Leaders that you can expect to see on stage at HW Annual. Back up your organization’s most creative department with the numbers they need to be successful.

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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.

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

Housing Wire

Among publicly traded companies, Compass has done technology development and implementation better than most of its peers. It develops tools that solve problems for its agents then uses media to share these innovations across the real estate sector and far beyond. What future state are these companies creating today?

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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. These projects aren’t just practice; they’re the proving ground where leaders develop the confidence to move from learning to leading.

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