Comments on: Great Photos Sell a Home. Tips for Better Shots.

By: tylerbrenner

tylerbrenner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:57:32 +0000

This is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves – bad listing photos. My favorites are the blurry photos that look like they are taken from a moving car.

“OK. The house is coming up on my left, so I’ll slow down to about 45mph… have to time this just right… and… got it! Perfect! Woah! Didn’t see that trashcan in the road there, whoops. Now, back to Starbucks for another Frappacino!”

Just a little more time spent on listing photos could cut off months of time on the market.

Also, take a TON of photos. Don’t just take one photo of every room in the house, one of the exterior, and settle with what you have. Take a bunch from every angle. Just because they look good on the small screen on your digital camera doesn’t mean that they are going to look great once you get home and load them on the computer.

And if you can’t get a good photo the first time out, take another trip to the listing! You are going to be out there anyways dropping off listing flyers or something so take more. And the season changes… oy!!! There is no other sure fire way to tell that a house has been on the market for a while than a photo of a home in winter where there isn’t a single leaf on a tree and the yard is a putrid shade of yellow. Take new ones already!

OK. I think I got that all out of my system… wooh!

By: Mary Ann Varner

Mary Ann Varner — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:50:14 +0000

Thanks Tisha. These tips are invaluable. It is all in the pictures because they represent the first impression the prospective buyer sees when they receive the e-mail from their agent of possible homes they may want to see. If they don’t like the pictures they move on to the next listing. As far as a tip, I recently heard at a class that we should not include mirrors in pictures.

Thanks again for sharing.

By: Kathie wold

Kathie wold — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:34:07 +0000

I preach this to my agents about the pictures.

By: Pat Viohl

Pat Viohl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:38:00 +0000

I am always completely dumbfounded and puzzled when I am searching listings and I come across one where ALL the pictures are fuzzy… did that agent even look at the photos before loading them into the MLS systems? When looking for properties I feel my buyer clients may be interested in, I will skip right over something with poor quality pictures, regardless of how glowing the descriptive may be. Inventory is so high that agents don’t have to show these poorly presented properties. I also always send my sellers a link to their listings – I want them to see the pictures I have posted and give me feedback if they feel strongly about the content of one of them.