Why have Estate Agents started to do this

swingaloo

I quite like the look of this little cottage but what on earth makes the estate agents think that taking phots from a silly angle is going to help a prospective buyer.

Nearly every house this agent has on sale has the same type of photography. For goodness sake let me see the room without having to turn either my head or my laptop at an angle!

Skiddaw1

Does seem to be a bit of a 'thing' at the moment doesn't it?


Can I see? Could you do a link?

POPPYOSCAR

I agree.

Making rooms and gardens look bigger than they actually are must surely be counter-productive as when the property is actually viewed it becomes a disappointment.

Skiddaw1

Gosh yes.


We had an abortive attempt to sell previous house (sale fell through and we lost the house we were after at the time) the year before we finally did sell. The EA we were using at the time sent a photographer round to take more pics after the original sale fell through and I shall never forget the hilarity when Mr S and I saw the new pics on Rightmove. Photographer had made the third (littlest) bedroom look twice as long as it was and the wee single bed in said bedroom had grown to around 100 feet in length. He'd also done something really weird with the colours so that our front room (which was a rather nice terracotta red) looked bright pink (we called it Liberace's Boudoir ). We took house off the market shortly afterwards and went on with a different EA the following year (pics were thankfully FAR more sensible!)

AdrianC

Am I missing something here...?

Skiddaw1

No link (yet at least) AdrianC. Hoping swingaloo will add link soon.

swingaloo

Sorry, got my muppet head on today, here is the link.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-88245314.html

swingaloo

Some more of his-

Pic 19 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-85322012.html

Pic 19 and 29 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-86542943.html

Pic 8 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-87747551.html

Just puts me off.

Sea_Shell

Oh, they made me feel quite queezy!!

AdrianC

Even without the ... jaunty ... angles, they're an odd selection of images.





25 pics for a 2-bed semi.
1 - A long shot of the front of the house.
2, 3 - The living room appears to be longer when you look one way than the other.
4 - Inside of wonky front door.
5, 6 - Can't have too many of the living room and its very wonky fireplace.
7, 8, 9, 10, 11 - Definitely a kitchen. With stairs. In an earthquake.
12 - A wonky door, but no idea where.
13 - Another door, at the bottom of the stairs.
14, 15 - Definitely a bedroom. With the light on in the middle of a sunny day.
16 - A random out-of-context wonky fireplace. I guess it's that bedroom, by the background paint colour.
17 - A very, VERY cosy bedroom that you can DEFINITELY fit two single beds in. Just. But not walk between.
18 - Oh, wait - there's a bit more to that bedroom.
19 - A bathroom, but we don't want to linger there.
20 - Look, the top of the stairs has doorways, too!
21 - Aren't they lovely doors up here?
22 - Somebody dropped some random gravel in the front garden of this wonky house.
23 - The front door is at 45deg on the outside, too, but the other direction.
24 - Some random wonky outside.
25 - LOOK AT OUR LEAFLET! IT'S LOVELY! THE OFFICE JUNIOR SPENT HOURS ON THIS!

Ah, if only there was a floorplan.

Did the photographer stop off for a bevvy or three on the way to the property?

swingaloo

Ooooh, you've put me right off it now! Not that the 2nd bedroom hadn't already done that.

I thought it was cute at first glance but then the smell of cooking wafting up those stairs, perhaps not.