Virtual staging guide
Home staging services: what they cost, and the virtual option agents use instead
A home staging service furnishes the house itself; virtual staging furnishes the photos buyers see first. For a vacant listing that has to look finished online this week, Virtual Stage Now delivers every room the same day, with walls, windows and camera angle exactly as photographed.
What a home staging service includes
- A consultation and walk-through, then a furniture and decor plan room by room.
- Delivery, set-up and removal of rented furniture, usually billed with a monthly rental fee for as long as the home is listed.
- Scheduling around movers and the photographer, so photos wait until the furniture is in place.
What virtual staging delivers instead
- Upload the empty room, choose one of six styles, and the staged photo comes back in under 30 seconds.
- Every file ships MLS-labelled, with the before/after and the clean original, so the disclosure most MLS rules and California's AB 723 require is already handled.
- 5 images for $15, 15 for $39, 50 for $99; credits never expire. Monthly plans run $49, $79 and $99 for agents listing every month.
When to book which
- Book a physical stager for a luxury home with heavy in-person showing traffic, where buyers walk through furnished rooms.
- Stage virtually for vacant listings, rentals, new builds and price-sensitive listings where the photos do the selling.
- Combine both: stage the living room in person and the remaining rooms virtually, in one consistent style.
How to order virtual staging for a full listing
- Shoot each empty room level, from a corner, with the lights on.
- Upload room by room and keep one style across the house so the listing reads as one home.
- Download the MLS-labelled files and post them with the original empty photos alongside.
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Packs and plans are on the virtual staging pricing page.
Staging keeps the walls, windows and camera angle of your photograph; only the furnishing is added. Upload the room and the frame comes back at the resolution you sent.