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How to Prepare a Real Estate Listing with AI: Photos, Description and Video Tour

Three tools for agents: listing photos that stay truthful, a description written only from your facts, and a video tour built from your photos. One apartment, start to finish.

A phone photo of a living room, the same room ready for a listing, and a house before and after a twilight edit
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Most listings are shot on a phone on the day the agent first walks in: a dim living room, a throw on the sofa, the kids' toys on the rug, a winter sky over the house. A photographer for every property isn't realistic, and the description still has to be written at night. ImageGPT now has three tools for this: Listing photos makes those phone shots bright and tidy, Listing text writes the title and description from your facts, and Property video tour turns your photos into a short walkthrough.

Dim living room with a throw on the sofa, toys on the floor and a laundry basket
Phone photo
The same living room brighter, without the throw, toys and basket; furniture and windows unchanged
Listing photo
Declutter with Also small furniture and the wish "make it brighter": walls, furniture and the window view are the same.

Every result below was made with these tools on one sample two-bedroom apartment. The "phone photos" themselves are generated, so we don't publish anyone's real home.

The rule: the property is never changed

Buyers compare the photos with what they see at the showing. So Listing photos only changes what isn't part of the property: light, color, the sky and the stuff lying around. Walls, windows, doors, finishes, layout, the view and the camera angle stay as they are. It doesn't add furniture or renovations and doesn't hide defects of the building. If you want to show a room furnished, that's virtual staging, which lives in Interior Design and can add a Virtually staged label.

What you need

  • Phone photos of each room and the outside of the house, in JPG, PNG or WebP. Shoot from chest height and from a corner to get more of the room in.
  • The facts for the description: size, floor, year built, renovation, transport, terms and price.
  • For the tour, your 3–10 best photos in viewing order: the street or entrance first, then the rooms.

Step 1: listing photos

  1. Open Listing photos and pick a mode: Enhance, Blue sky, Declutter, Twilight or Summer view.
  2. Upload a photo. To process the whole home the same way, add up to 29 more under More photos in the same style; you get one picture per photo.
  3. For Declutter, choose how much to remove: Clutter only keeps every piece of furniture, Also small furniture removes baskets, drying racks and stools that crowd the frame.
  4. Add a wish in plain words if you like, for example "remove the magnets from the fridge too". The price is on the button before you start.
  5. Check the result against the original with the Before / after switch and download it. Turn on 4K copy for print.
Narrow entrance hall with coats on the rack, shoes on the floor and bags on the bench
Before
The same hall without coats and shoes, more even light, doors and wardrobe in place
After
The hall was processed in the same run as the living room, with the same settings.

Enhance is for dark, yellow-tinted shots: it opens up the corners without blowing out the window, neutralizes the white balance and straightens the verticals. Declutter removes clothes, boxes, dishes, cables and toiletries and makes the bed.

Kitchen shot in the evening with yellow light, dark corners and a blown-out window
Before
The same kitchen bright and neutral, buildings visible through the window
Enhance
Bedroom with a made bed, no clothes, boxes or bags
Bedroom after Declutter
The kitchen after Enhance and a bedroom after Declutter with Clutter only.

Houses get three exterior modes. Blue sky swaps a grey sky for clear blue, clouds or sunset and matches the light on the walls; it can tidy up the lawn at the same time. Twilight turns a daytime shot into dusk with warm light in every window, which makes a strong first photo. Summer view removes snow and slush when a house goes on the market in winter.

Two-storey house with yellow siding under a grey sky, patchy lawn
Overcast day
The same house under a blue sky with clouds and a green lawn
Blue sky
The same house at dusk with warm light in the windows and lights along the fence
Twilight
One exterior shot in Blue sky and Twilight.

Step 2: the listing description

  1. Open Listing text and choose where it goes: a listing site (MLS, Zillow) or an Instagram / Facebook post.
  2. Pick the deal (sale, long-term or daily rent) and the property type.
  3. Paste everything you know as one paragraph. The text is built only from your facts and what is clearly visible in the photos: no invented schools, views or renovation years. For listing sites it follows Fair Housing wording and describes the home, never who should live there.
  4. Add up to six photos so the description can mention what they show.
  5. Choose a tone (calm, warm or premium) and click Write the listing. Not quite right? Ask for another version.
Prompt

2-bedroom apartment, 54 m² (581 sq ft), kitchen 8 m², 7th floor of 9, brick-and-panel building from 1985, elevator. Separate bedrooms, separate bathroom and toilet, windows face a quiet courtyard. Renovated in 2022: laminate floors, new double-glazed windows, new plumbing. Kitchen cabinets and the hallway wardrobe stay. 10-minute walk to the subway, school, kindergarten and a park nearby. Single owner. Price $189,000.

From these facts and the four photos above, the listing-site version came back with the title "2-Bedroom Apartment with Courtyard-Facing Windows" and two paragraphs of public remarks. The first opens: "This 2-bedroom apartment offers 54 m² (581 sq ft) on the 7th floor of 9 in a brick-and-panel building from 1985 with an elevator." Notice that it also wrote "other furnishings shown in the photos are not specified as included" because we only listed the cabinets and the wardrobe.

Below the text you get short facts for photo captions ("Courtyard-facing windows", "Renovated in 2022") and the questions buyers will ask first. Here it suggested adding monthly utility costs, parking and how long the owner has held the property. Answer them in your facts, write again, and the listing gets more complete.

Step 3: a video tour from photos

  1. Open Property video tour and upload 3 to 10 photos, ideally the ones you just processed.
  2. Put them in viewing order with the arrows. Each photo becomes a 5-second shot with a smooth camera move.
  3. Choose horizontal 16:9 for listing sites and YouTube or vertical 9:16 for Reels and Stories.
  4. Choose the video model: MiniMax H3 Turbo is faster, Kling 3 is more cinematic.
  5. Add a title for the first shot, keep the background music on and click Make the tour. It takes 3–6 minutes.
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A tour from four photos of the apartment: MiniMax H3 Turbo, 16:9, title and music.

Pricing

WhatPrice
One listing photo6 credits
A whole home, 30 photos in one run180 credits
4K copy+2 credits per photo
Listing text2 credits
Video tour from 4 photos with music, MiniMax H3 Turbo110 credits
Video tour from 6 photos with music, MiniMax H3 Turbo154 credits

Credits for photos that fail and tour shots that don't render come back automatically, and the listing text is only charged when it's written. New accounts get 6 free credits, enough to try a few photos of your own listing. You can use the results commercially, including in listings and ads.

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