# California Legislature virtual-staging disclosure

- Status: Explicit requirement
- Applies to: Digitally altered images used by a real-estate licensee in advertising; California residential-property advertising beginning January 1, 2026
- Last verified: 2026-08-09
- Next review: 2026-11-09

## What the source says

AB 723 requires a conspicuous disclosure on or adjacent to a digitally altered image and access to the original image through a link, URL, or QR code. On a licensee-controlled site, the original image or a link to it must also be provided.

## Disclosure wording

The statute requires a conspicuous statement that the image was digitally altered; it does not prescribe one exact phrase.

## Prohibited or limited edits

- Presenting a covered digitally altered image without the required disclosure
- Withholding the original-image access required by the statute

## Stylst practical guidance—not policy

Use “Virtually staged—digitally altered” on or beside the image and place the original immediately beside it or behind an obvious original-photo link.

## Primary source

[AB-723 Real estate: digitally altered images](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB723)

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