Virtual staging in Toronto: cost, disclosure, remarks line, original beside each photo.
Viara Studio furnishes the empty rooms of a Toronto listing. Each staged photo in the MLS export has the words Virtually staged in its pixels and ships with its original, to upload right after it. The bundle also writes a line for the public remarks of a Toronto Regional Real Estate Board listing; that line is not yet confirmed with the board. A Listing Pass is $59 in Canadian dollars with 15 staged photos, and your first five are free.
Virtually staged
Living room, demonstration listing
Drag the handle to pull the original back across it. A demonstration room, not a client’s listing.
What RECO has published, and what the studio does.
A Toronto agent answers to RECO, the Real Estate Council of Ontario. This is how the studio reads what RECO and PropTx have published, not legal advice, and your brokerage has the last word. The province in full: virtual staging rules in Ontario.
- A label on an altered image. RECO's guidance on artificial intelligence says to clearly label any digitally altered images. It sets no wording. The words Virtually staged are rendered into the pixels of every staged photo in the MLS export and in every photo, carousel and graphic you post. A video that uses one says so on its closing card instead.
- Permanent features shown as they are. The same guidance says to ensure virtual staging or AI modifications accurately reflect permanent features. Staging is told to add furniture and to move no wall, window, door, floor or ceiling, and each result is checked against the original for that.
- An image that depicts the home. Rule 5.01 of PropTx's MLS rules keeps out of a listing a digitally altered image, digital staging included, that does not accurately depict the home. The original is kept beside every staged photo and exported with it as a named pair.
- Brokerage identification. RECO's guidance says AI-generated posts, descriptions and enhanced visuals carry every advertising obligation under TRESA, the placement of brokerage identification among them. Every flyer and graphic prints your brokerage's name, and it cannot be deleted or hidden there. The video's closing card shows it unless you untick Agent card in the editor.
The line for the public remarks, not yet confirmed.
Toronto listings are entered in PropTx. Its rules name no wording for the remarks. The studio’s line is modelled on live Toronto listings it read in September 2026, each of which closed its public remarks with one plain sentence. The bundle writes it as a text file, ready to paste.
Toronto
Some photos have been virtually staged.
Ontario’s line is not yet confirmed with the Toronto board or any other; until it is, the file says so. Ottawa, Cornerstone, London and St. Thomas, Niagara and Kingston carry the same line in the studio, and other provinces have their own: every board’s line.
What the bundle holds, and the order to upload it in.
One zip a listing. It holds the photos you changed, each numbered by its place in the listing.
- The staged photos and their originals, as pairs. Each staged photo has the words Virtually staged in its pixels and ships beside the photo it came from: 03-staged.jpg and 03-original.jpg for the third photo.
- remarks.txt. The line to paste, each staged photo by number and room, and the upload order: each original goes into the listing right after its staged photo, 03-staged.jpg and then 03-original.jpg. The line names no photo, so the pair is how a buyer tells which one is staged.
- manifest.csv. A row for each photo in the zip: its number, both file names, the room and the style.
PropTx’s rules name no label for a staged photo, and the studio has not asked a board how it reads words on a listing photo. Check with your brokerage before you upload.
What one listing costs.
Priced per listing, in Canadian dollars. The video, the flyer and a draft listing page come in the same price. Tax is added at checkout from your billing address.
- Free, to start. Your first listing: 5 staged photos, the video, a flyer and a draft listing page. No card.
- Listing Pass, $59 once. One listing for 30 days with 15 staged photos: under $4 a photo before tax.
Monthly plans: the full price list. Other ways to stage a listing, side by side: what virtual staging costs in Canada.
Questions
What goes in the public remarks for a Toronto listing?
The bundle writes one sentence for Toronto Regional Real Estate Board listings: "Some photos have been virtually staged." It is modelled on live Toronto listings the studio read in September 2026 and is not yet confirmed with the board. Your brokerage has the last word on the wording.
Where do the original photos go?
Into the listing, each right after the staged photo made from it. The bundle names every pair and remarks.txt gives the order. In file-name order the original sorts first, so follow the order in the file.
Can the studio stage a condo that is still furnished or tenanted?
Staging is written for empty rooms, a vacant condo included. Furniture is added, never removed. Tidy up, a separate retouch, takes loose belongings, bins, cars and people out of the photos you choose. A photo is tidied or staged, not both.
Does the same line work for other Ontario boards?
In the studio, yes: Ottawa, Cornerstone, London and St. Thomas, Niagara and Kingston carry Toronto's sentence. The studio read live listings for Toronto only, and no Ontario board has confirmed the line.
What does one Toronto listing cost?
A Listing Pass is $59 once, with 15 staged photos: under $4 a photo, in Canadian dollars before tax. The video, the flyer and a draft listing page come with it. The first listing is free, with 5 staged photos and no card.
The rooms, the styles and every question about the staging itself: virtual staging in BC, Alberta and Ontario.
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