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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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Real estate teams are winning big. Is the solo agent era over?

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LPT Realty achieves growth by tailoring compensation models to the career stage of its real estate agents, from newbies who get the most out of a flat-fee model to superstars who like a traditional split. Some brokerages have rules that disincentivize agents to join teams because they make more money if they stay solo.

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FirstTeam begins national expansion, introduces new agent compensation plan

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Founded in 1976, FirstTeam operates more than 46 offices with 2,200-plus sales agents. “FirstTeam’s impressive growth is fueled by a robust ecosystem designed to nurture agents at every stage of their career,” said Michele Harrington , the companys CEO. . The firm is among the largest privately held U.S.

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Meet Collov AI: The world’s first listing marketing AI agent built for real estate

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Staging a home can make or break a sale but the traditional approach is broken. Furniture rentals, photography sessions, and weeks of back-and-forth leave agents stuck in the past. Even the traditional virtual staging solutions take days to turnaround, while todays buyers make decisions to attend an open house onlineoften in seconds.

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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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How to leverage a growth mindset to drive our industry (and your business!) forward

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As someone who has been working in real estate tech for the last 15 years, I can understand why today’s agents—and the team leaders and brokerage owners who manage them—may feel stuck, paralyzed by fear and uncertainty. Agents need to move beyond a fixed mindset when it comes to technology and invest the time to learn the platform.

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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.