- 10 new properties per month
- 25 input photos per property
- 50 renders included per property
- 10 custom style presets per month
- Bulk upload, auto room sorting & batch staging
- 1K & 2K resolution (2K counts as two)
- Custom watermark templates & disclosure labels
- Compliance presets (e.g. Funda NL)
- Unlimited team members
- Showcase pages (public or password-protected)
Virtual home staging · Johannesburg
Virtual home staging in Johannesburg
Virtual staging for Johannesburg listings — sectional-title flats in Rosebank, cluster homes behind a Fourways boom gate, 1930s cottages in Parkhurst that sell while the family is still living in them. Each room is decluttered and then furnished from the photographer's set — one style, or three, minutes apart — with the originals kept beside them.
First 5 images free — no credit cardA fraction of the cost of traditional stagingStaged in minutes, not weeks
Sectional title from Sandton northwardsSemigration leaves houses standing emptyAbout 97 days to sellSunday show days start on Property24
Homes like the ones you sell
Original, decluttered, staged.
Rooms like the ones you sell in Johannesburg. First we remove the clutter, then we add furniture. The room itself never changes.
Cottage lounge, Parktown North
Main bedroom, Midrand townhouse
Built for local homes
From Sandton northwards the stock is sectional title or estate: towers and clusters in Sandton, Morningside and Rosebank, townhouse complexes through Fourways, Douglasdale and Midrand, all double-volume entrances and open-plan lounges that make ordinary furniture look lost. Closer in it is older and freehold — 1930s cottages in Parkhurst, Greenside and Melville with steel casements, pressed ceilings and a stoep — and southwest, four-room Soweto houses families have extended twice. Two different jobs: volume to fill up north, decades of furniture to clear closer in.
Why it works in Johannesburg
Johannesburg sells around 35,000 homes a year and takes about 97 days to get each one over the line, up from 79 before Covid; anything over R5m in the northern suburbs waits longer still. Plenty of that stock stands empty — investor flats between tenants, houses cleared out by owners who have gone to the Cape or abroad. Buyers build the Sunday route off Property24's on-show list, and at Joburg distances four addresses make the cut, not ten — chosen off the pictures.
Styles that sell in Johannesburg
Double-volume clusters in Bryanston and Fourways need the weight of Luxury or Modern; a compact Midrand or Rosebank flat opens up under Scandinavian; and Mid-century belongs in the pressed-ceiling cottages of Parkhurst, Greenside and Melville.
What you get
Everything you need to sell Johannesburg listings faster
Twelve Lumens is a full staging studio in the browser — built for agents, photographers and owners.
AI decluttering
Remove clutter, personal items and tired furniture from any photo in one click — lived-in rooms become clean, neutral spaces without moving a single box.
Photorealistic staging, true to the room
We add furniture and decor, and nothing else changes: windows, floors and walls stay exactly where they are. What buyers see is real and accurate.
Six preset styles — or your own
Stage in Modern, Scandinavian, Luxury, Industrial, Mid-century or Coastal, or describe a custom house style once and apply it to every room and listing. Restyling the same home a second or third way takes minutes — so buyers see what the space could become, not just one version of it.
High-resolution exports, listing-ready
Download in up to 2K for portals and print, watermark-free on paid plans — with an optional "virtually staged" label when your listing rules require disclosure.
A buyer showcase page per listing
Share a polished page with the staged gallery, before/after sliders and property facts — public or password-protected, disclosure built in.
A fraction of the cost and time
No furniture to rent. No waiting. Stage a whole Johannesburg home the same day it is photographed — for less than staging one room the old way.
Safe for the portals
Ready for Property24 and Private Property — disclosure built in
Add a small label to every staged photo: "virtually staged, for inspiration purposes". It follows the photo rules of the big platforms. So you can upload staged images without worry — and buyers always know what they are looking at.
Optional compliance watermark on every export
Originals delivered right alongside the staged versions
Showcase pages disclose virtual staging automatically
Plans for professionals
Save thousands on staging your Johannesburg listings — and be done in an hour
One subscription covers it all: new properties every month, plenty of images, 2K downloads without watermark, showcase pages and your whole team. No cost per photo. No furniture rental. No surprises.
Business
$349/ month
Billed monthly — save 17% with annual billing
For agencies, studios and home stagers.
- 30 new properties per month
- 40 input photos per property
- 50 renders included per property
- 30 custom style presets per month
- Bulk upload, auto room sorting & batch staging
- 1K & 2K resolution (2K counts as two)
- Custom watermark templates & disclosure labels
- White-label disclosure labels (no Twelve Lumens branding)
- Compliance presets (e.g. Funda NL)
- Unlimited team members
- Showcase pages (public or password-protected)
- White-label showcase (own branding and domain)
- Admin roles
- Priority renders
Prices in your local currency · cancel anytime · start free, upgrade when it pays for itselfSee full pricing & plan guide
How it works
Three steps from photo to staged listing
01
Upload your listing photos
Straight from your phone or your photographer's shoot. Photos are organized by room.
02
Declutter and stage each room
One click removes clutter; one more stages the room in a preset or custom style. Architecture stays locked.
03
Publish and share
Export in high resolution for the portals, or share a buyer showcase page with built-in disclosure.
Neighborhoods we stage in Johannesburg
Agents, photographers and owners use Twelve Lumens across Johannesburg, including:
SandtonSectional-title towers — furniture at true scale
BryanstonThe city's busiest sales suburb, and slowest
FourwaysEstate townhouses photographed empty between tenants
ParkhurstSells inside ten weeks — declutter first
MidrandFirst-time buyers reading a compact plan
DiepkloofExtensions only read as rooms once furnished
Virtual staging in Johannesburg — common questions
How much does home staging cost in Johannesburg?
A stager here charges about R950 an hour to walk the house and write the report, then roughly R15,000–R35,000 to dress the rooms that carry the listing and R40,000 upwards for a whole empty house, with furniture hire of around R10,000 a month for as long as it stays on show. Twelve Lumens does it digitally from the photographs you already have: the first five images are free with no card, and paid plans run to tens of dollars a month, cancellable monthly.
The owners have already moved to the Cape and the house is standing empty — is it still worth staging?
That is the case where it earns the most here. Between semigration and investor resales, a lot of Joburg stock gets photographed with nothing in it, and an empty double-volume lounge reads as an odd shape rather than a room — nobody can tell from the picture where the couch, the dining table and the TV wall are meant to go. Furnished, they can, and that counts double for the buyer working through your listing from Cape Town or Dubai who will walk the house once before deciding.
Do we have to say the photos are virtually staged?
Say so, yes. The Property Practitioners Act's mandatory disclosure form covers the condition of the property, not the furniture in it, and the Consumer Protection Act leaves you with a plain duty not to mislead a buyer. Nothing structural moves in any case — burglar bars, aluminium windows, the inverter on the scullery wall and the boundary wall stay exactly as photographed. Exports can carry an optional label stating the image is virtually staged for inspiration, your originals stay alongside the staged versions, and showcase pages carry the disclosure built in.
Ready to stage your Johannesburg listing?
Try it with your own photos — the first five images are free. Beautiful results the same day, for a fraction of the cost.