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Hi everyone, my name is Chris. I have just started a property photography business as a side Hussle at the minute. Does anyone else here do the same and can give me some tips on finding potential estate agents etc to work with. When contacting them a lot of the seem to do it all in house on their crappy camera phones and yes, they look awful. would love to hear some advice from you all cheers.
 
Welcome to TP.


There’s plenty of threads on property photography if you run it through the search (a couple below).



This question would probably be better in the business section. There are likely to be a few that do this.

My concern would be for the average property many sellers would be happy with phone shots taken by the estate agent. I gather you could offer photos and floor layouts as one job lot.

For higher end market properties I’d personally say the 360 interactive photos are likely much more useful to a property viewer but high quality photos probably matter for that end of the market too.
 
Twisted118 said:
Hi everyone, my name is Chris. I have just started a property photography business as a side Hussle at the minute. Does anyone else here do the same and can give me some tips on finding potential estate agents etc to work with. When contacting them a lot of the seem to do it all in house on their crappy camera phones and yes, they look awful. would love to hear some advice from you all cheers.
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Not sure where you get that from, all the Estate agents I used when looking wouldnt release any photos unless they were ones their photographer had supplied. Both properties we sold had a photographer take the images. The 360 photos are usefull for seeing what the photographer tried to hide, like the 2ft hole in the ceiling in one house and that a kitchen was 4ft wide including counters.
 
its the sad truth alot really dont care about there photos being crap i even offered Free shoot for them to see the work im capable of and there still happy with there phone photos
 
If an agent tried to sell my property with crappy phone photos, they wouldn’t be my agent for very long.

Unfortunately it seems to be the norm for many agents and accepted buy buyers.

Maybe you’re targeting the wrong agents.
 
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If an agent tried to sell my property with crappy phone photos, they wouldn’t be my agent for very long.

Unfortunately it seems to be the norm for many agents and accepted buy buyers.

Maybe you’re targeting the wrong agents.
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Possibly but i have rang around 20 different ones in my area are apart from 1 or 2 they seem to want to keep going as they are. So i may need a plan b to help earn some extra cash doing photography ....
 
We went through the pain of trying to sell our house this year (it didn't sell thanks to a buyer drop out after 3 months).
The first agent took her own photos using a small bridge camera, and they were not very good. They also had someone come in with a 360 camera on a tripod, that was ok but not great.
The second agent had a pro tog, armed with a D850 and some lenses, she took excellent photos. They also got someone in to do a video with seriously good presentation and editing, incorporating drone footage; I paid an extra £250 for the video.
The second agent secured me two offers within a week. Sadly the higher offer people dropped out, as I said. For me, the pro sold the house. The previous agent failed to secure any offers and only tyre kickers for viewing.
 
lindsay said:
We went through the pain of trying to sell our house this year (it didn't sell thanks to a buyer drop out after 3 months).
The first agent took her own photos using a small bridge camera, and they were not very good. They also had someone come in with a 360 camera on a tripod, that was ok but not great.
The second agent had a pro tog, armed with a D850 and some lenses, she took excellent photos. They also got someone in to do a video with seriously good presentation and editing, incorporating drone footage; I paid an extra £250 for the video.
The second agent secured me two offers within a week. Sadly the higher offer people dropped out, as I said. For me, the pro sold the house. The previous agent failed to secure any offers and only tyre kickers for viewing.
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exactly Swetenhams use something called focal agent which hire photogrpahers and they send them to properties apparently focal agent pay like £30 per shoot to the photographer and the quality is awful on most listing but they say they dont have a say at branch.. maybe i need to contact higher up the company and see whats happening
 
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good shout 9 times out of 10 the estate agents will probably pickup the leaflet and bin it but wortha try
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Well that’s a defeatist attitude.
I’m not really sure how the agent would even know if you’ve leafleted a property for sale.
If you think your just going to get a load of work from any agent I’m afraid you are sorely mistaken.
The hardest part of starting any business is finding your first customers. You need to work bloody hard for that.

I can also guarantee that you’ll earn far more money selling directly to the seller. You’ll be lucky to make minimum wage from an agent
 
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