Estate agent photos

[LadyLapsang]

We are about to put a detached 4 bed, 2 bathroom, double garage house with drive and surrounding gardens on the market - it’s belongs to a relative. I was surprised that the agent just sent 13 photos over that omitted the main bathroom, one of the bedrooms, a downstairs cloak room and a study. Also no pictures of the working fireplace / surround. Would you expect to see these?

Pictures of the exterior
Hall
Kitchen
Living rooms
Garden
Bedrooms
Bathrooms

I can’t recall whether we had one of the cloakroom.

I wouldn’t necessarily expect to see photos of something like a fireplace, but I’d expect that photos of the living room would be taken from a couple of different angles to show a fireplace in the room. The same if the kitchen is large. I’d expect photos from different angles. Garden too perhaps.

If there isn’t at least one photo of every room and some
of the outside I’d wonder what you were trying to hide!

Yeah, of course every room needs to be photographed.

Fireplace doesn't.

Fireplace if it is an outstanding feature.

Other rooms, yes.

I wouldn't expect necessarily see a picture of the downstairs WC, nor perhaps every single bedroom.

As long as main rooms are there, and a flavour of the exterior then I think it's fine.

The idea is to pique the interest of a buyer enough they want to explore further and view, not to show images for every square inch of the property.

Definitely the main bathroom, and I prefer to see each bedroom. I've just noticed the study - also yes please, as that word gets attached to such a variety of rooms it's good to see what that looks like! The rest, less so. There's a sweet spot between the 30-odd photos some agents go for, including pointless arty shots of flowers, and so few that it feels like something is being hidden.

When we sold our last-but-two house in 2014, the EA used a professional photographer and would only have a max of eight photos, regardless of the house/garden size.

We queried this as our house was a five bed, over three floors with huge kitchen, three reception rooms, four bathrooms and 0.3 acre garden, and were told we could supply additional photos if we wished. Their rationale was as @Mildura said - to pique potential viewers interest, without showing them everything so they didn't need to view.

We added a couple extra of our own. Accepted an asking price offer fairly quickly.

All, thank you for the feedback. The house has gone on the market today, with lots of good photos, and the first viewers are booked in for lunchtime.I suspect it is underpriced.

That's good, hop it goes well.

Houses tend to find their natural price level. If it is under-priced the agent should be inundated with viewings and offers.

@LadyLapsang If there’s several people wanting it, take the best price from a buyer who can actually proceed. Better to under price and sell than over price and it sits there for over a year!