Changelog · Verified entries only
What changed, and when
Photo rules move, and a page without a date cannot tell you whether it is describing this year's rule or last year's. These are the changes we verified, newest first, with the document each one came from.
2026
| Date | Board or law | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-12 | ARMLS | Education phase ends and the $200 penalty for a missing Digitally Altered disclosure starts being issued. | ARMLS |
| 2026-10-20 | CRMLS | Knowledgebase now states a warning first and a $250 fine if not corrected. The February FAQ had said there was no fine. | CRMLS KB |
| 2026-10-01 | CVR MLS | Rule change took effect: remarks wording, a “Virtual Staging” watermark and an unaltered photo of the same view. | CVR MLS |
| 2026-09-27 | Stellar MLS | Article 04.04 page last updated; the three placements and the exterior ban are unchanged. | Stellar |
| 2026-05-28 | ARMLS / Doorify MLS | ARMLS implemented Rule 8.23. Doorify published media guidelines stating that disclosure is not required. | Doorify |
| 2026-02-13 | CRMLS | FAQ published at the time said there was no fine for the altered-image rule. | CRMLS PDF |
| 2026-01-01 | California | AB 723 took effect: a statement on or next to the image, plus a link, URL or QR to the original. | BPC §10140.8 |
What is not on this list
Boards we could not read from a primary source: Bright MLS, MIAMI REALTORS, NWMLS, HAR and UtahRealEstate. Their rules sit behind a member login or would not load, so they are absent from this log rather than guessed at. When one of them is readable, it gets an entry with the same fields.
How often this is rechecked
Why two dates
A rule can change without its page changing. The log records when a board changed a rule; the board page records when we last read it. When the two disagree, the log is the newer fact.
Every board page carries the date it was checked, and the five boards in the rule list are reread each quarter. California statute changes are checked against the chaptered bill text rather than a summary.