Are AI-edited photos allowed on SeLoger and Leboncoin?

Yes. Neither portal prohibits editing your own photographs, and there is no French board rule on the subject. The limit is the general one against misleading a consumer: the image has to be of the apartment on offer. Enhancement, perspective correction and dusk conversion are routine. Virtually staged rooms should be described as such in the listing text, and a visible label can be switched on per render.

What does an apartment shoot cost in Paris?

A photographer for a standard Paris apartment typically runs €150 to €300, more for a large or exceptional property or an evening session. Plotpane does not replace the shoot — it replaces the editing pass afterwards, at $0.62 to $1.23 an image by plan, one credit whichever tool you use. Three free renders, no card. Billing is in US dollars.

Will staging add mouldings or a fireplace that are not there?

No. Virtual Staging furnishes the open floor and leaves the room alone — the cornices, the parquet, the marble mantel, the window and the balcony in a staged frame are the ones you photographed. European Classic is the setting most Paris stock wants. If a room has no fireplace, it will not acquire one, and if the parquet is worn, it stays worn.

Paris, France

Real estate photography in Paris, and the edit that follows

Plotpane photographs nothing. It is the pass after the shoot: you bring the frames, it finishes them. In Paris that usually means a Haussmann salon on the étage noble, well over three metres tall and rarely deep enough to stand back in, taken wide from the doorway with the camera tilted up until the cornice converges and the parquet runs uphill. Perspective Fix puts the verticals back.

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Before and after of a 6e Haussmannian salon, murky under Paris cloud with the balcony doors burnt to white. — enhanced by Plotpane — Auto Enhance · Paris — 6e arrondissement · 1 credit · ~2 min

Before and after of a 6e Haussmannian salon, murky under Paris cloud with the balcony doors burnt to white. — original listing photo before editing — Auto Enhance · Paris — 6e arrondissement · 1 credit · ~2 min

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Photographing property in Paris

Haussmann proportions and a lens that has to lean

The rooms are tall — well past three metres on the étage noble — and almost never deep enough to stand back in. So the camera goes wide and tilts up, and the cornice, the door architrave and the balcony rail all converge towards the top of the frame. Perspective Fix corrects the converging verticals and levels the herringbone parquet. It does not widen the room, move a wall or invent floor that was never in the frame, which is the whole difference between a corrected photograph and a fictional one.

There is no MLS in France, and one mandate lives in several places

A Paris mandate is published to SeLoger, Bien'ici and Leboncoin, usually to the agency's own site as well, and shared between agencies through an AMEPI file rather than through anything resembling an American MLS. There is no board, and therefore no board rule about edited photography. What the advert itself must carry is the DPE energy class — a real, enforced obligation on the listing. The photograph is governed only by the general rule against misleading a consumer, which is enough.

Top-floor flats are a different problem entirely

Above the étage noble the ceilings drop, and the sixth floor is the old chambres de bonne: mansard slopes, one dormer, and a room that is genuinely small. These photograph dark and cramped, and the temptation is to shoot from outside the door with the widest lens in the bag. Auto Enhance recovers what the dormer actually gave you; Virtual Staging furnishes to real scale rather than to a flattering fiction. A studio of eighteen square metres should still look like eighteen square metres once it is dressed.

Examples

Paris properties, before and after

Every pair below is a property from this market, run through the same tools you would use.

Before and after of a hôtel particulier garden and lap pool in the 7th arrondissement, Paris. — enhanced by Plotpane — Lawn & Pool ReviveParis rive gauche — 7e arrondissement

Before and after of a hôtel particulier garden and lap pool in the 7th arrondissement, Paris. — original listing photo before editing — Lawn & Pool ReviveParis rive gauche — 7e arrondissement

Before and after of an empty Avenue Montaigne grand salon in Paris furnished by virtual staging. — enhanced by Plotpane — Virtual StagingParis Triangle d'Or — 8e arrondissement

Before and after of an empty Avenue Montaigne grand salon in Paris furnished by virtual staging. — original listing photo before editing — Virtual StagingParis Triangle d'Or — 8e arrondissement

Before and after of a haussmannian penthouse on avenue montaigne slides from afternoon into a paris blue hour, its zinc-roof horizon studded with existing landmarks waking up — enhanced by Plotpane — Day to DuskEuropean ultra-luxury — Paris

Before and after of a classic parisian salon with herringbone parquet and boiserie, lifted from murky underexposure to crisp editorial clarity — enhanced by Plotpane — Auto EnhanceParisian Haussmannian apartment

Before and after of the ritz paris suite impériale salon recovers its true gilded warmth — chandelier crystal, silk damask and savonnerie carpet — without losing its old-world restraint — enhanced by Plotpane — Auto EnhanceHospitality · Luxury hotel — Paris

Disclosure

What you have to say, and to whom

France has no MLS and no board rule on edited listing photography — there is nothing here equivalent to an American disclosure requirement, and this page is not going to invent one. What exists is the general prohibition on misleading a consumer, which applies to an estate agent's advert like anyone else's, and the specific duty to state the DPE energy class in the listing. Plotpane is built so that a corrected photograph is still the apartment: no concealed damp or crack, no view added to a window, no wall moved, no ceiling raised. Every export carries disclosure metadata naming the operation, and a visible “Virtually Staged” label is one switch. Portals re-encode on upload and often strip that metadata, so the sentence a buyer reads still belongs in the listing text.

Portals used here: SeLoger, Leboncoin, Bien'ici, Logic-Immo, PAP for private sellers, shared AMEPI files between agencies. Disclosure rules by board.

Questions

Editing listing photos in Paris

Are AI-edited photos allowed on SeLoger and Leboncoin?: Yes. Neither portal prohibits editing your own photographs, and there is no French board rule on the subject. The limit is the general one against misleading a consumer: the image has to be of the apartment on offer. Enhancement, perspective correction and dusk conversion are routine. Virtually staged rooms should be described as such in the listing text, and a visible label can be switched on per render.
What does an apartment shoot cost in Paris?: A photographer for a standard Paris apartment typically runs €150 to €300, more for a large or exceptional property or an evening session. Plotpane does not replace the shoot — it replaces the editing pass afterwards, at $0.62 to $1.23 an image by plan, one credit whichever tool you use. Three free renders, no card. Billing is in US dollars.
Will staging add mouldings or a fireplace that are not there?: No. Virtual Staging furnishes the open floor and leaves the room alone — the cornices, the parquet, the marble mantel, the window and the balcony in a staged frame are the ones you photographed. European Classic is the setting most Paris stock wants. If a room has no fireplace, it will not acquire one, and if the parquet is worn, it stays worn.

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