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4 Real Estate Photography Mistakes To Avoid When Selling Your Home

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In this day and age, a huge number of potential home buyers begin their search by looking for houses for sale online. Thus, having a great online listing page with excellent photographs highlighting the best features of your home is absolutely essential. Unfortunately, there are a lot of sellers who don't understand what goes into creating great photos for their listing. If you're putting your home on the market in the near future, avoid the following real estate listing photography mistakes:

Not Enough Photos

The photos used for your online real estate listing are very valuable and play a huge part in getting potential buyers interested in viewing your home. If you only have a few pictures attached to your online listing, buyers are less likely to see the best features of your home, so they may not contact their real estate agent requesting to see your home in person. When your house is for sale, it is in your best interest to add as many photographs to your online listing as possible.

Failure to Clean Up Clutter

Selling a home can be quite stressful, especially is you're in the process of moving out before your house is actually sold. But a huge mistake that many seller make is having photos taken when there are moving boxes in view, rooms are full of clutter, or knick-knacks or other personal items are in plain view. Before having photos taken for your online real estate listing, it is very important to make sure that every room is completely clean and free of clutter in order to get pictures that show your home at its best.

Bad Lighting

You need to think about the lighting before pictures for your listing are taken. It is typically recommended to avoid taking listing photos at night, since many homes don't have lighting that looks great in photos during the evening hours. Your best bet is to take photos during the afternoon, and make sure that you open your curtains and blinds to allow natural light in.

Poor Quality Photos

It is never a good idea to use blurry or grainy photographs for your online real estate listing. Ideally, you should talk to your real estate agent to see if he or she works with a professional real estate photographer. If that is not an option, make sure that the pictures for your listing are taken with a high quality camera and always ask for approval of the photos before they are posted online. 

Contact an agency, like Sell 4 Free Real Estate Welsh Realty Corp, for help.


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