List · Creating a Home Listing
Check your listing package before you publish it
A short pass over the copy, photographs, figures and readiness that keeps a listing accurate.
By Crafted Tools · Educational guidance
Say only what you can support
Read your headline and description against the facts you have confirmed. If a claim rests on an unverified measurement, an improvement of uncertain date, or an assumption about permitted use, either source it or leave it out. A description that promises more than your record supports is the quickest way to lose a buyer’s confidence at the first visit.
- Read the description line by line beside your fact list.
- Remove or verify anything you cannot support.
- Keep promises about future uses out of the copy.
Check the photographs
Photographs carry their own accuracy risk. Confirm you have the right to use each image, that the order tells the story you intend, and that nothing in the frame misrepresents the property, hides a material issue, or shows something private — a document on a desk, a security detail, a family photograph you would rather not publish.
- Confirm permission for each photograph.
- Check the edges of each frame for private information.
- Keep the approved set separate from rejected shots.
Make the figures agree everywhere
Room counts, living area and the asking price appear in several places: headline, detail block, flyer, saved link. Read them as a buyer would, in one pass, and fix anything that disagrees. Where an older source conflicts with a newer one, publish the confirmed value and keep the disagreement in your notes so you can explain it if a buyer asks.
Decide what readiness means for you
A readiness check is a list of your own essentials, not a score. Decide what must be true before you publish — confirmed facts, a chosen price, approved photographs, showing instructions a buyer can follow — and treat everything else as a choice rather than a blocker.
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