I've seen them add light fixtures to photos. Like, the light fixtures do not exist in the actual house. Not a lamp, something connected to the house. The way they're going, that industry's gonna get a regulatory smack-down at some point.
Here in New York I've seen listings use extremely bright, daylight-emulating lights to make rooms appear "sun-drenched" when their only window faces another building, and remain dim year-round.
I even saw this on a video walkthrough of an apartment – they clearly had placed the lights right outside the window.
We sold a place last year. The agent asked whether we wanted to pay for rental furniture or virtual furniture for the pics. We said neither.
We ended up with the virtual furniture for free. I think they wanted to figure out how it works and our place was small and boxy so an easy starting point.
Not that you could trust the ultrawide angle HDR photos much in the first place, now you have to put up with shoddily inserted virtual furniture wrecking your size/perspective references. It is an Alice in Wonderland trip...
I recently saw a listing where badly inserted trees and piles of rocks were littered around the back yard, maybe to hide crap the owner hadn't bothered to clean up? Not sure, but it was obvious.
