I took it to mean "these are bad photographs because they fulfil their purpose (selling houses) badly". That covers poor photographs AND poor properties. I’d ar

I took it to mean "these are bad photographs because they fulfil their purpose (selling houses) badly". That covers poor photographs AND poor properties. I’d argue the agents are also poor (in the not-good-at-the-job sense) themselves, as a result. A photograph can be technically perfect and still bad.