


A rental listing in Sydney, Australia’s trendy suburb of Newtown has attracted attention online for a peculiar detail in promotional photos.
In two pictures of the apartment, which appeared to be above a main road, TikTok user zoe_iron spotted people sleeping in beds.
“Is that someone sleeping in the bed? On the professional photo?” she said. “That is someone sleeping!”
People commenting on the video, which has amassed more than 6,000 likes on the platform, playfully suggested it was a pair of “difficult tenants.”
“I worked nights and tried to organize diff times but real estate would refuse would wake up to strangers walking in my room for an inspection,” one person said.
Real estate agents have been known to alter images on listings but it appears this one was overlooked.
In March this year, a real estate company in Queensland was caught uploading an unedited picture of a dehydrated lawn
The pictures of the three-bed, two-bath Kumbari Ave home, which sold for $808,000 in December, showed two near-identical images of its sprawling garden with “room for a pool.”
In one, the lawn was displayed in all its natural glory, with the yellow grass typical of any Aussie backyard in summertime.
In the second, the grass had been digitally altered to bright, lush green, subtly concealing some of its drier dirt patches.
Many on social media said the Photoshop fail was “one of the better ones” — citing more extreme examples like a fresh tin roof, new landscaping, or entirely different floor coverings.
An LJ Hooker spokesperson maintained that their edit fell within the legal guidelines, saying: “LJ Hooker follows all legislative requirements when representing listings to ensure accurate representation of key features.”