Does your listing meet AB 723?
California asks for two things on a digitally altered listing photo, and most listings do one of them. Paste your remarks below and see which parts are there.
We checked 297 California listings that say their photos were altered. 3 of them linked to the original. This tool uses the classifier from that audit.
This runs in your browser. The text never leaves this page, so unpublished MLS remarks are safe to paste.
The two requirements
1. Say that it was altered
A statement that the image has been altered, reasonably conspicuous, on or adjacent to the image itself. A note at the bottom of the page is not adjacent to anything.
2. Link to the original
A link, URL, or QR code to a publicly accessible page that includes and clearly identifies the original, unaltered image. This is the one almost everyone misses.
Questions
Does this send my listing text anywhere?
No. The check runs in your browser and the text never leaves the page. That is deliberate: unpublished MLS remarks are exactly the kind of thing that should not be posted to someone else's server to run a pattern match.
Is a “virtually staged” label enough on its own?
No, and this is the part most listings miss. California asks for two things: a conspicuous statement that the image was altered, and a link, URL, or QR code to a publicly accessible copy of the original, unaltered photo. A label alone satisfies the first and not the second.
What counts as altered?
Changing the content of the photo: adding furniture, rendering a room, removing objects, replacing a sky. Straight exposure and white-balance correction is generally treated as outside this, which is why the checker reports enhancement wording separately instead of counting it as a disclosure.
Is “original photos available on request” acceptable?
The statute asks for a publicly accessible link, URL, or QR code. Something reachable only by contacting the agent does not meet that on its face, so the checker flags it as a gap rather than a pass.
Is this legal advice?
No. It reads the words you paste and tells you whether the two required parts are present in that text. It cannot see your photo gallery, it cannot tell whether a link resolves, and it does not know your situation.