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Homes.com leads with the neighborhood — school ratings, community profile, walk score — before the buyer ever taps your listing. When they do, the hero photo has to earn the next click. Edensign stages that hero, and the rest of your Homes.com carousel, at the CoStar player's native resolution in about 15 seconds per photo.
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Used by Homes.com publishers across Austin, Charlotte, Nashville, Phoenix, Denver, and more
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Why Homes.com is different
Homes.com pages lead with a community profile — school ratings, walk score, lifestyle write-up — before the listing carousel loads. By the time buyers reach your photos, they've already committed to the area. The hero just has to confirm the home matches.
Homes.com's built-in AI assistant lets buyers ask conversational questions — school zoning, tax history, nearby amenities — in 50+ languages. International and ESL buyers convert here who bounce off other portals. Staged photos read across every language; vacant rooms don't.
Homes.com is part of CoStar Group — same parent as Apartments.com and LoopNet. Your photos can live across the portfolio with a single staged set. Edensign exports standard JPGs that work on every CoStar surface.
Workflow
Photographer-delivered JPEGs, phone photos, or restage-over-tenant-furniture sources — all supported, up to 20MB per photo.
Pick hero, kitchen, primary bedroom, living, exterior. Multi-view consistency is the default so the carousel reads as one home across every angle.
Homes.com refreshes from MLS within 4–24 hours. For agent-claimed listings, you can also upload directly in your Homes.com Pro dashboard.
Image specs
Homes.com inherits image specs from the host MLS and re-encodes everything for the CoStar player. These are the constraints that actually bind once your photos land on the consumer site.
Reflects Homes.com behavior and the typical MLS feed contract as of 2026. Your local MLS may impose stricter limits — verify before publishing.
Display slots
Homes.com renders into more contextual surfaces than the average portal — neighborhood pages, school pages, agent pages. Your photo set needs to land on each one without re-staging.
Homes.com leads with the neighborhood — visitors browse a community page, then see your listing in the embedded tile grid. Square hero, price, beds/baths, days on Homes.com.
The main listing experience on the CoStar player: a large 16:9 hero with a tap-through carousel through the rest of the set. Buyers spend 60–120 seconds here.
Homes.com school pages show a "Nearby homes" rail of listings zoned to that school. The same hero photo appears here, in a horizontally scrollable rail.
When a buyer asks Homes AI a question ("3-bed near a great elementary, walkable"), the AI returns listings with the hero photo. Multilingual surface, fast scroll.
Use cases
Five property profiles where the neighborhood-first surface makes staged photos pay back the fastest.
Homes.com school pages drive serious family-buyer traffic. Stage the family room, kitchen, and primary suite for school-shopping families.
When the neighborhood profile is the front door, the listing photos have to confirm the lifestyle the community page promised.
Homes AI converts buyers in 50+ languages. Staged interiors read across every language; vacant rooms don't.
The default Homes.com use case. Empty rooms read flat in the neighborhood tile grid — stage every key room.
A dusk exterior reads warmer and more lived-in on the neighborhood-led detail page — the strongest hero variant on Homes.com.
Homes.com's lifestyle slant rewards entertaining-friendly dining shots — Edensign stages the table, lighting, and chairs in one pass.
Pricing for Homes.com publishers
Most agents publishing to Homes.com sit on Professional ($0.77/photo) — enough volume to fill a 30–50 photo set across 6–12 listings a month.
入门版
$20 美元 / 月
180 张 / 年 · 按 年 计费
适合首次尝试虚拟布置的房产经纪人。
专业版
$45 美元 / 月
600 张 / 年 · 按 年 计费
为持续出图的活跃经纪人与摄影师量身打造。
高级版
$117 美元 / 月
1800 张 / 年 · 按 年 计费
面向高用量需求的中介公司和房产团队。
Yes. Homes.com displays whatever the host MLS feeds it. Each MLS has its own disclosure rules for virtual staging — typically a 'Virtually Staged' label in the photo caption or listing remarks. Edensign output itself is policy-neutral; the disclosure is the agent's responsibility per local MLS rules.
Homes.com leads with the neighborhood, not the listing. The community profile, school ratings, and lifestyle write-up render above the listing carousel — Zillow and Realtor.com put the photo grid first. That changes which photos do the most work: on Homes.com, the hero confirms the home matches a neighborhood the buyer has already committed to.
Homes AI is the conversational search assistant on Homes.com — buyers can ask questions like "3-bed near a great elementary" in 50+ languages and get listing results. The hero photo appears on the AI result card. Bright, well-staged hero photos earn the tap at small result-card sizes; vacant rooms get scrolled past.
For most listings, no — Homes.com ingests from your MLS feed and refreshes within 4–24 hours. For agent-claimed listings on Homes.com Pro, you can also upload and re-order photos directly in the agent dashboard. Edensign output works for both paths.
Homes.com displays up to ~50 photos depending on the MLS feed contract; agent-claimed listings can add more via Homes.com Pro. Edensign per-photo pricing makes a full set affordable — a 40-photo carousel runs about $31 at Professional tier.
Apartments.com and LoopNet are part of the same CoStar Group portfolio but operate separate listing inventories — rentals (Apartments.com) and commercial (LoopNet). Staged residential-sale photos don't auto-cross-list. Edensign exports standard JPGs that work on either platform if you publish there separately.
Most MLSes push updates to Homes.com within 4–24 hours. Edensign's 15-second render time means you can stage a fresh hero on Monday morning and see it live on Homes.com by Tuesday morning at the latest.
Pages tailored to each major listing surface and its photo rules.
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