Terms used here: MLS is a property listing system. Disclosure means telling people a photo was edited. Check the source dates and your local board’s current rules.
Yes, as far as public documents show. We could not read the Yukon Real Estate Agents Act itself on September 2, 2026 because the legislation site refused automated access, so this page quotes nothing from it. The Yukon Real Estate Association's MLS® rules are members-only. The REALTOR® Code and the Competition Act apply to every Yukon listing.
This is the thinnest page on the site by design: no quotation is better than a guessed one. If you can point us at the Act text or a YREA rule, we will add it.
Regulator: Government of Yukon, Professional Licensing (Community Services) · Association: Yukon Real Estate Association (YREA) · MLS / boards: YREA MLS® (rules members-only)
Governing text: Real Estate Agents Act, R.S.Y. 2002, c. 188
We could not find a rule from Government of Yukon, Professional Licensing (Community Services) that names virtual staging specifically. The general misrepresentation rule applies, and the boards below may add their own listing policy.
The Act's PDF and its mirrors (laws.yukon.ca, CanLII, the Internet Archive) all refused automated access on September 2, 2026; yrea.ca and yukon.ca's licensing pages were read and name nothing about staging or altered photos. YREA's site refers to its own MLS® rules and Provincial Practice Rules, which are members-only.
The four things a listing has to get right.
| Tell buyers what changed | No specific rule foundNo verifiable Yukon text. The REALTOR® Code's accuracy article and the Competition Act's ban on misleading representations apply. Source |
|---|---|
| Label on the image | No specific rule foundNo rule found. |
| Original photo | No specific rule foundNo rule found. |
| Changes that are not allowed | General rule appliesUnder the Competition Act and Article 3.2 of the REALTOR® Code, any edit that misleads a buyer about the property is out of bounds. Source |
Plain words, consistent with the rule above. Sedam Staging writes the same line into the disclosure file that ships with every listing.
Sedam adds a Virtually staged label to listing images, keeps your original and checks each result. Compare both photos before posting. See images that failed the check.
Because we could not read the primary text. Rather than paraphrase a rule we have not seen, the page says what applies for certain: the REALTOR® Code and the Competition Act, and the YREA rules once a member can share them.
The same four questions, answered from each regulator's own text. The national layer for Canada →
BCFSA's AI guideline, a $6,000 penalty, and a watermark catch in Vancouver
The clearest rule in Canada: staging allowed, disclosed in the remarks; 'virtual enhancing' banned
SREC's advertising bylaw and a members-only MLS® rulebook
The Real Estate Services Act's ban on deceptive ads, and an unsourced labelling claim
RECO, TRESA, and the PropTx MLS® image rule
OACIQ's AI-image statement and Centris
FCNB, the Real Estate Agents Act, and an unpublished MLS® rulebook
NSAR MLS® Rule 3.20 and NSREC By-law 759
An Act that only asks for the agent's name
The 2019 Act's advertising test and the Superintendent's Code
A licence can be pulled for publishing any misrepresentation about a trade
The same Act as the NWT, no board, and the national rules
Listing across the border? The rules in the United States, state by state.
How this page was made. Each quotation was read at the linked source on September 2, 2026; our confidence that it is current and complete is low (the Act was not readable and the MLS® rules are members-only; only the national layer is verified). Rules change and boards add policies; the linked documents are the authority, and this is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Spotted a change? Tell us and we will fix the page.