Are professional photos worth it when selling a house?

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So I'm about to put my house on the market and have been told that photos is included in my package with the estate agent but I can get professional photos for £100 more. I'm thinking of going for it as I don't think it will be easy to seek my house. What's people views?

No unless they are really pathetic at taking photos. Have a look at their website and see if you can tell the difference. Any agency worth their commission will make sure the photos are of decent quality. Only circumstance would be if it was a really high value property, but even then the likely commission should cover it. For my £2m plus home we had beautiful photos and a glossy 4 page brochure, and I did not pay extra for this.

Who's offered the photo package? Is it an estate agent optional extra? If so, the upselling would really annoy me and I'd wonder why they couldn't take good ones themselves.
We sold via Countrywide, but it was a Vistabee agent who did the photos and a video, which looked great.
I'd ask about the photos on their other listings, and who did them. A decent package from an agent should include decent pics, imo.

I would not be going with an agent who charged extra for good photos. Choose a different agent who will take great photos at no extra cost.

Thanks. The agent uses a different photographer if I was professionals photos. But you are right. I'm already paying a lot of money. I shouldn't have to pay additional for decent photos!! I might ask which photos on their website are professional and which aren't and if the none professional don't look very food then re-this this estate agent.

We went with one estate agent who didnt us a photo package and they took them and photos were awful and we dodnt have one viewing in 2 weeks and our house was pretty nice! New agent and paid for photographer package and we got 4 viewings in 24 hours booked and sold the second day it was online for asking price.

So in my opinion it is worth it

Wow that's good. Decent pictures do take the difference!! I wonder if I can see their pics first then decide whether to go ahead with professional ones x

I'm sure you could.

We looked at our first agents which we were told didnt have a professional package and looked good that's why we said no first of all, but the ones he took were awful. I could have done better with my phone!

I too would be asking what I was paying them ££££ x thousands for, if they didn't feel taking a decent set of photographs was within their capabilities.

I too would be asking what I was paying them ££££ x thousands for, if they didn't feel taking a decent set of photographs was within their capabilities.

This.

We paid for the photo package (£120) but had negotiated the estate agents fee down to a flat fee so still were saving. I've got mixed feelings as the photographer spent nearly 2 hours with us (3 bed terrace p.m. not big!) helping to place furniture in different places, styling, moving toys around etc., but the photos were still pretty average and feedback from viewings was that the photos made the rooms look smaller than they are (we opted not dd's fish eye). He also photoshop a fake blue sky into the photo, which I now recognise in all rightmove photos locally. Can't decide it it help or not but the photos were really clear and crisp. You can tell the ones taken on an iPhone in my opinion

*sorry should be we opted not to have fish eye lens effect

I would pay for better photos unless your house is especially easy to photograph well. Photos are what gets viewings. Whether its included or an extra you will pay for it somehow so would just look at total cost of EA compared to another one.