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Tips for Taking Good Pictures of Your Home
Pictures are crucial in motivating buyers and showcasing your property. In fact, homes advertised with great pictures attract 50 percent more interest and sell much faster than other homes that are poorly marketed.
Taking great pictures of your home is easy for the most novice do-it-yourselfer, if they follow these tips from the pro’s.
- Staging the Shot is Critical: No People and no pets in the picture help the buyer imagine themselves in the room. Flowers always help. Remove all clutter and evidence of anything personal. Move furniture to look good in the picture, even if you don’t live that way.
- Lighting: Turn on all the lights, but leave the fluorescents off because they distort colors. Light candles in the fireplace (shown top left) to punch up ambience. Shoot one exterior shot at twilight (shown below) with all the interior and exterior lights on.
3. Camera Angle: Stand in Corners of the room and aim the shot toward the other corners. The room looks bigger, if there are no more than 2 walls in the picture. Crouch down and take the shot from a kids height (may explain why houses get smaller as we get older) to make any space appear larger. Try to keep the back of the camera parallel to walls or doorways to make the room feel taller.
Thank you for visiting InfoTube.net homes for sale or rent website. If you are serious about selling a home, remember that a picture paints a thousand words and each one should motivate buyer to take a look inside for themselves. If you aren’t using 20 good photo’s in your InfoTube.net home ad, please do yourself a favor, grab your camera and upload some new ones. You will be very glad you did!
Proof that Photo’s Sell Houses
InfoTube receives a number of questions about buying and selling property. But, the two questions ask most often are “Are there any photo’s of this property?”, closely followed by “Is there more than one photo of this home?
The importance of providing quality, multiple property photo’s and video tours can not be understated. By referencing the Point 2 chart above, you quickly see that the more photo’s equal more interest. And where you find interest, you find more offers and more sales.
When observing buyers who are shopping for a home on the internet, the following pattern is obvious and consistent.
- Ad’s with NO Photos: Buyer’s completely ignore these listings and move onto the next house.
- Ad’s with One Photo: Buyers’s click on these ad’s, but when they look for more pictures and find none, they become immediately disappointed and skip to the next house.
- Ad’s with Multiple Photo’s: These ad’s are viewed 10 times more (exposure) than those without photo’s. Buyers stay focused on these ad’s (interest) for 5 times as long, as those without multiple photo’s. These ad’s are bookmarked 90 percent more often (offers), which drives the buyer back to your listing.
- Ad’s with Multiple Photo’s and Video Tours: These ad’s receive the most attention, by far. They are also more “sticky”, with Buyer’s spending an average of 4 minutes gazing at these home ad’s. For seller’s who know they need to make their listing memorable, nothing does the job like a simple Video and multiple photo’s.
If you have a home to sell, don’t under estimate the power of visual media when it comes to web appeal. 90 percent of all home buyer’s shop on the internet, which is a multi-media platform. If you aren’t supplying a lot of high quality pictures and a good video, buyer’s simply ignore your property and spend their time researching your competition.
If you are not providing great photo’s or video of your property, then you are not doing the marketing, which is necessary to sell the home. If your agent isn’t providing these things, they aren’t marketing your property, either.
Take some sage advise. Grab your digital camera and start shooting today. If you don’t know how, make it your New Year’s Resolution to learn something new. In any type of market, pictures and video can make the difference between selling or not.
InfoTube.net offers Featured Home Listings with video tours and a 20 photo slideshow for only $19.95. The upgrade never expires and is good until your home sells. If you don’t have a computer or digital camera, InfoTube will create your Featured Home listing for only $10 more, so no excuses. Upload those photo’s and video’s today, or let InfoTube do the work. Buyer’s are waiting.
Seller’s Should Freshen Up a Stale Listing with New Photo’s
As home shoppers search through listings of homes for sale, nothing screams STALE LISTING, like seeing a photo of your home that was taken during another season.
If the season’s have changed while your home is on the market, freshen up your listing with new seasonal photo’s. It’s Free and Easy to Do.
- For extra appeal, stage the photo with seasonal color or add a pumpkin or two before you snap the picture. The bonus, pumpkins and seasonal decor can be enjoyed through Thanksgiving.
- If your home has features that are more appealing during certain times of the year, such as swimming pools, waterfronts, flower beds and landscape, leave the photo’s, but change the captions to reflect the height of the season. (ie: Fun in the Sun 2009, for example).
- Highlight and rephotograph the area’s of your home that are appealing when the weather is crisp. Photograph a fire in the indoor or outdoor fireplace. Decorate the dining room for fall entertaining, then shoot. Snap a picture of your media room right before the big game. The goal is to Showoff the features of your home that you enjoy during this time of year.
- A home/neighborhood video tour is another great way to freshen up your listing and reach a whole new audience, too. InfoTube.net uploads video tours on its homepage and to youtube.com, bringing your home to the attention of a whole new crowd.
It takes only a few minutes to edit your ad and replace old, dated photo’s. Freshen up your listing and celebrate the season. Buyer’s will notice.
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