How are you handling MLS compliance for your virtual staging photos?

Since January 1, 2026, California (AB 723) made it illegal to publish a digitally altered listing photo without a disclosure label, a public link to the original, and a retention record. Washington (NWMLS) and British Columbia have similar rules, and NAR 2026 guidelines are following suit.

For most agents and brokers, that means every single staged photo needs to be tracked, labeled, and verifiable before it hits the MLS.

We built SEAREI to solve this automatically. Every time you upload a staged photo, we generate a tamper-evident compliance certificate with:

• A disclosure label embedded in the image

• A public verification URL (e.g. app.searei.com/verify/359)

• A SHA-256 audit trail with delivery timestamp

It ships with every staged photo, no extra steps before you publish.

Curious how others are dealing with this today. Are you manually tracking disclosure labels? Relying on your staging vendor? Just ignoring it and hoping for the best?

Happy to answer any questions about the compliance requirements or how SEAREI works.