Ridiculous 'arty' property photos

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I know this sort of thing has been done many times, but... I'm in the market for a house, not a bichon frise!

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131285420#/?channel=RES_BUY

The dog and the children’s mural 😂

Fucks sake!

There seems lots of focus now on the sellers ‘stuff’ which they would be taking anyway.

Bizarre. It's obviously meant to be 'aspirational', but it's a fairly standard three bed semi with a North-facing garden. Masses of people live in houses like that, just not in Bromley 🙄

Is it advanced warning that the house smells of dog...? Not really a sales point though...

Metropolitan police bike locker 😂

All those photos are pointless though.
You can’t get a feel for the rooms size or layout in any of them.

Oh wow, those pictures aren't arty, they're just naff. I'm cringing, oh no.. I mean it's a perfectly lovely family home but The Modern House it ain't!

They're trying to sell a lifestyle for 600 k. I assume the EA thinks that the house looks more aspirational/upmarket with a focus on its current inhabitants' contents than it would empty, or more depersonalised.

Oh wow just read the description - it's gets even better. You can stand at the sink and look at the cul de sac! Still I suppose it beats looking at the wall Shirley Valentine style!

This is like if David Brent went into real estate..

Estate agents are knobs

It's the estate agency -- look at their other properties and all of them are photographed like that (apart from the dog).

I've not seen that before.
Although I was looking at a listing the other day where all the rooms appeared curved because of how the agent had tried to make them look bigger on photos.

Oh dear, those photos are
Terrible and really naff. I bet the estate agent thinks they are the bees knees too 😅

I really love the ones where they do a close-up of a running tap. I've seen this multiple times and I can never understand why.

It’s everywhere, the instagramification of property schedules. You want to get an idea of spaces and flow, not photos of fruit bowls and taps.

How bloody much?🤯
Don't mind me, I'm from up north

Is that Savoy cabbage in the fruit bowl?

Oh my god, I just had to come on here specifically to vent about this!

One of the main estate agents near me is so useless:

1. "Arty" photo of an irrelevant object - vase, candleholder - massively in the foreground with the background blurred out, Hitchcock style. Just why??

2. Photos obviously taken on mobile phone - dark, blurry, only a tiny part of the room in shot.

3. No floorplans. Drives me insane. Don't people want to sell their house? I imagine he tempts sellers with a cheaper option that does not include floorplans. But I need floorplans! Especially because his crappy photos are so bad and tell me nothing!

This is like if David Brent went into real estate..

😂😂😂

If it doesn't have a floor plan I'm not interested.

Seriously, I just move on, can not be arsed

Yes, I agree, I don’t want to see a close up if anyone’s fruit bowl thanks.

Yes! I always go to the floor plan first when I am looking at houses.

We put my fathers house up for sale
last year and two agents said they didn’t do floor plans. Main reasons I didn’t go with them.

Trouble is, the agent will see lots of extra views from here and think they are officially the world's greatest estate agent. No! Your photos are pointless and offputting!

@LadyMonicaBaddingham Well, my DC are constantly snacking on a lovely bit of savoy cabbage out of the fruit bowl, can't keep it restocked fast enough.

£600k, I am shocked

From “About the agent”:

Maison is built on the twin pillars of style and storytelling. We show our clients homes at their most captivating, using best-in-class photography to capture how spaces are lived in and loved by homeowners.

You don’t say. 😁

It’s a nice house, I hope it sells. It’s not their fault their estate agent fell out of the Faraway Tree.