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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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2024 is not the year to cut corners on staging — here’s why

Housing Wire

When it comes to home staging, there are two homeowner camps: those who think it’s a waste of money and don’t want to pay more to make their home more attractive to buyers and those who realize the worth and are willing to make the investment needed. As a listing agent , I pay for both a staging consultation and staging items as needed.

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‘Zillow, virtually stage my listing photos in an art deco style with pink accents!’

Housing Wire

On Tuesday, the residential real estate giant announced the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI (VSAI). Founded in 2023 by Michael Bonacina and Mikhail Andreev, VSAI helps home sellers, agents and photographers create digitally staged images of a listing, eliminating the need for physical furniture in the home.

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

Housing Wire

The appeal of REX Real Estate s antitrust suit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Zillow began in earnest on Thursday when the three parties, along with the Department of Justice (DOJ), gathered at the Ninth District Court of Appeals in Honolulu for oral arguments before a three-judge panel.

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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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Inman Connect San Diego: Real estate’s future takes the stage

Inman

Learn from real estates best and brightest in the business, all while growing your network and meeting like-minded passionate and driven professional peers.

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