Advice for agents

Getting more out of your listing photographs

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What preparing South African agents' listing photographs every week has taught us, written for the agent taking the photos.

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  1. How many photographs does a listing actually need?

    Twelve good ones beat forty ordinary ones, and the reason is not attention span. What to include, what to leave out, and the order to put them in.

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  2. Plenty of views, no viewings: where a listing loses people

    A listing with traffic and no bookings is failing at a specific point. How to tell which one, and what to change first before you drop the price.

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  3. What to do with an empty flat before it goes on the market

    An empty property is harder to sell than a furnished one, for reasons that have nothing to do with taste. What to fix in an hour before you photograph it.

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  4. Writing a property description that gets viewings

    Most listing descriptions read like an inventory. Here is what to put first, what to leave out, and why the second sentence matters more than the first.

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  5. Staging a small room so it does not look smaller

    Small rooms photograph badly for predictable reasons. What to move, where to stand, and why filling the room with less furniture makes it read as bigger.

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