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Are you sure it’s so expensive? Not sure how mature the technology is, but I imagine you could do it by just hauling around a tripod with a special camera. If s

by tobr 6y ago

Are you sure it’s so expensive? Not sure how mature the technology is, but I imagine you could do it by just hauling around a tripod with a special camera. If so, it would be a lot less effort than a complete tidying up.

teekert 6y ago
Well, maybe true. Depends on what the realtor charges for it then.
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  We don’t have Realtors in the UK. And it’s not normal to artificially tidy the house before putting it in the market either - just not the done thing.
  - teekert 6y ago
    In the Netherlands this was also not normal 10 years ago, but it changed a lot recently. Now almost all pictures are highly stylized, clean and professional. We used to have a website called "foutehuizen.nl" which gathered pictures (from funda.nl, our main site for real estate) where something like 20% of the picture would be a bra, or one even, I kid you not, had the bare bum of the fotographer in a mirror. But that never really happens anymore.
    - Avalaxy 6y ago
      This article goes into what people go through to get their Funda pictures taken: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/artikel/5193700/perfecte-funda-foto-waaom-je-nooit-een-prullenbak-op-funda-ziet-het https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/artikel/5193700/perfecte-... Being used to this way of doing things, it shocks me how extremely messy the photos in the article are. As a potential buyer it makes it look so much better if you remove all the mess and the personal items.
      - teekert 6y ago
        haha, yes, I was also quite shocked, but I guess 10 years ago we would have also thought it was normal. I guess that once you reach a threshold of people using the super nice pictures, you can't not do it anymore because you are already one (marketing) step behind others. Not that selling a house is a problem at all in this day and age, in the Netherlands: I just got an email that all options to view a house are booked, and if "I would be so kind not to call into the office because they are completely swamped and can't handle 100s of phone calls each day"...

by tobr 6y ago

teekert 6y ago

Well, maybe true. Depends on what the realtor charges for it then.

chrisseaton 6y ago
We don’t have Realtors in the UK. And it’s not normal to artificially tidy the house before putting it in the market either - just not the done thing.
- teekert 6y ago
  In the Netherlands this was also not normal 10 years ago, but it changed a lot recently. Now almost all pictures are highly stylized, clean and professional. We used to have a website called "foutehuizen.nl" which gathered pictures (from funda.nl, our main site for real estate) where something like 20% of the picture would be a bra, or one even, I kid you not, had the bare bum of the fotographer in a mirror. But that never really happens anymore.
  - Avalaxy 6y ago
    This article goes into what people go through to get their Funda pictures taken: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/artikel/5193700/perfecte-funda-foto-waaom-je-nooit-een-prullenbak-op-funda-ziet-het https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/artikel/5193700/perfecte-... Being used to this way of doing things, it shocks me how extremely messy the photos in the article are. As a potential buyer it makes it look so much better if you remove all the mess and the personal items.
    - teekert 6y ago
      haha, yes, I was also quite shocked, but I guess 10 years ago we would have also thought it was normal. I guess that once you reach a threshold of people using the super nice pictures, you can't not do it anymore because you are already one (marketing) step behind others. Not that selling a house is a problem at all in this day and age, in the Netherlands: I just got an email that all options to view a house are booked, and if "I would be so kind not to call into the office because they are completely swamped and can't handle 100s of phone calls each day"...