The initial photographs and advertising of your property

If your photographs look awful and don’t show the property to it’s best, then you have already lost a good percentage of your viewing market.

I am afraid your estate agent is only there to take a quick photo and may not look for all these off putting signs.

A few years ago when I was desperately looking for property for a family member, details of a particular house was sent to me many times and I even viewed it on the internet, but just bypassed it every time.  The photo’s were not selling the place; they showed hardly anything  of the property  except part of the kitchen, part of the lounge and a little of the garden.   “Too small!” I instantly thought, even though it was in the exact location I needed.  

Months later the estate agent persuaded me that I needed to actually view this particular house and, still not really bothered, I thought I might look when I have time to spare!  Well you can guess, this house was  exactly what we were looking for and was purchased by my family, but the poor sellers had lost 2 properties while they waited for a buyer and even mentioned they had very little viewings!!! This was not the estate agent's fault, the lady had rooms used as storage and did not want them photographed.

Marketing Picture

Marketing Picture Before

Marketing Picture After

One lady really couldn't face selling and all the stress that went with it. She was losing money by dropping in price because of little or no viewings.

Changing the marketing photographs really showed how big and homely her property was.

I did a little makeover in some of her rooms, decluttered  and re photographed the whole house for her estate agent. It soon sold and she was able to move to the house she had found previously, and I followed her to do a little decorating as soon as she moved.