Virtual Staging by City
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What virtual staging is
Virtual staging is the digital addition of furniture and decor to a photograph of an empty room, so buyers can see how the space works without anyone renting or moving real furniture. The room itself is not altered — the walls, windows, flooring and dimensions stay exactly as photographed, and only unattached items are added.
That distinction is also how the rules treat it. Alberta’s MLS rules define virtual staging as “adding virtual unattached goods (chattels) of realistic size to property photos,” and separately prohibit altering fixed features of the property. Adding a sofa is staging. Changing a wall, a floor or a window is not — and that is prohibited almost everywhere in Canada. Whether you have to disclose the staged photo depends on the province: the rules by province.
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