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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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First-time homebuyers are being insulated by slower market conditions. Will it last?

Housing Wire

The market is not great, so we aren’t often dealing with multiple-offer situations. Due to these conditions, Dwiggins and other industry professionals believe there won’t be much of an impact on first-time buyers until the housing market strengthens, leading some sellers to potentially stop offers of buyer broker compensation. “If

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As the lock-in effect eases, the market for new homes is shrinking

Housing Wire

As high mortgage rates reshape the housing market, existing homes are making up a larger percentage of for-sale inventory, and homebuyers are taking notice. This marked the lowest market share for new homes in three years. market share, while first-quarter 2022 saw a record high of 34.4%. Census Bureau.

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Compass updates seller disclosure form, clarifies off-MLS marketing

Housing Wire

Compass has put forth a revised version of its seller disclosure form to clarify how its three-phase marketing strategy works including when and how listings are shared with the public. The Compass 3-Phased Marketing Strategy Client Disclosure Form expands on a version first introduced in 2024.

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

Housing Wire

Staging a home can make or break a sale but the traditional approach is broken. Even the traditional virtual staging solutions take days to turnaround, while todays buyers make decisions to attend an open house onlineoften in seconds. Collov AI : A smarter, faster and an AI way to stage Collov Inc. ,

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How agents can support first-time sellers in an uncertain market 

Housing Wire

Weve entered the busiest season in the real estate industry at the same time that markets are more uncertain than ever. Current market uncertainty may increase the already stressful process of selling a home. This is a crucial time for agents to act as trusted guides to their clients, particularly first-time sellers.

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