Thoughts on these professional photos please.

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We've just put our house on the market having just finished renovating it. The estate agent advised us to have a company come and take the photos for the brochure which we did and paid for.
I cant shake the feeling that they're just a little underwhelming. The estate agent has suggested we take some more 'lifestyle' photos that they could add to the listing but ive realised I'm no photographer and they just look a little crap!

Do you think it would be worth getting the photographer back or am I overthinking it and the photos are fine?
Here's the listing: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137062946#/?channel=RES_BUY

Nice house but I'd expect to see more than 22 pictures for a property like that.

I think the pictures are underwhelming too. When I sold my last house I just had the estate agent take them and the house looked far better in the photos than I expected (modest 3 bed semi!) I nearly changed my mind about selling!

Angles are poor, lighting is off, definitely not showing the best of the house!

They are pictures of a house. What more do you want? They're enough to get a potential buyer through the door but if you're hoping to reach a wider audience through promoting it on MN then you've done it. A huge percentage of us aren't looking to move, couldn't afford it, aren't in your area or looking to relocate, though, so you're probably better off just letting Rightmove do its thing.

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The photos are fine. Some good free advertising of your house on mumsnet too 👏

For a house of that value I’d have expected more photos!

It is clearly a beautiful house and way out of my budget! but I think the photos are a bit off too. Photo 10 with the two large sofas, looks like you can barely squeeze past the sofa, if that makes sense.
The ceilings all look very low too. The angles are all weird!

@Therearetoomanyofus

Oh shit, hadn't realised I'd inadvertently posted in AIBU...

Oh my gosh, you're so random. I can't believe you DID that!

Some posters are mad.

The photos are fine. The house is amazing & spectacularly decorated.

It's all beautiful. I can't believe people are commenting on angles etc, the house is fab & appears fab in the photos.

I think you'll be ok for viewings OP. (Although £2.5m - incredible money even for such an amazing house).

You will be paying the estate agent X% of £2.5m and they expect you to sort out your own photographs at additional cost. What actually are you paying them for?

Other agents are always available.

I love the look from the outside! It is very difficult to understand how this house flows though from the photos that are shown here - kitchen seems massive, two sets of tables : one breakfast and one dinner I assume? As someone has said you need a walk through 360. It does also look very empty in the downstairs then upstairs you have a bed against the wall. Is that a bath in the room in photo 12? I think you need better photos.

The first picture is wrong. The first picture usually shows the entrance to the house but yours shows the exterior shot of the sitting room, distorted by wide-angle or some such. It looks (because my brain is expecting the entrance) like a weird, disproportionally large porch.

They seem normal estate agency images. Enough to get people interested and through the door. Pity you paid for them as I'd expect any agent to have been able to take them. I'm.surpirsed you don't get a brochure for that market price! Especially nowadays when they presumably are unlikely to be printed just online downloads.

But all those lifestyle images they take of taps and plants and such like are ridiculous and best left for new homes where they are being built so there isnt any images to show. If you are spending 2 million, you should be bright enough to realise you have to look and see quickly if it initially appeals to then visit and make your expensive decision.

The photos look OK but round here they also put a drone film of the whole plot and a video of inside on Rightmove. Is that happening too?

I’m truly stunned at the price. In the midlands where I live it would be less than half that amount!

Wish l had this problem…

Gorgeous house.
I get what you mean about the photos. The angles are all wrong, and some look almost blurred. They make some rooms appear long and thin, certainly smaller than they are. The floor plan is poor (on a photo so details are obscured) and no walk through video.

What are their fees? At 1% they’ll be getting 25k, so yes, for a house worth 2.5m I’d expect a lot more.

I agree - in particular, there's an annexe? I've not tried that hard, but I can't work out whether the annexe is included in the photos, and if so which photos, and I shouldn't really have to try hard.

Bit bland. So much empty floor and wall space, does it echo?

The house is beautiful, the photos are good, yes they could be better but potential buyers will view anyway so I’d prefer the reality to be better than photos rather than other way round.

You have exactly the same front door as me.

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Also, drone pic to show garden size.

I have to question wtf your EA is being paid for. I have had full aerial videos for houses worth 2k a month I was thinking of renting.

Four isn't great as it draws attention to the house next door and the fact they have used a weird lens.

Overall it looks lovely.

Even for Hampshire it's expensive & the decor isn't the best for that budget!

It’s a lovely house, but the photos make lots of it look very drab and griege. They’ve also made it look like a luxury Barrett home - if people are interested in older homes they’re interested in period features so I’d have those highlighted more. Focus on images with pops of colour and interest, and where the whole or big chunks of the rooms can be seen, turn on lights or take photos when the sun is shining. Dress it with some flowers or plants.

I'd be furious if I'd specifically paid for those photos! They're be kind of OK if you were selling a 2 bed semi. But at that price tag I'd expect an agent to pull out all the stops. We have a couple of agents locally to us that are focused on the higher end of the market and their brochures are beautiful, and the photos look make the properties look like something out of an interior magazine. They often include extra photos taken at dusk to showcase garden lighting etc.

Look fine to me but I'm not your target market.