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Home Shopping is an Emothional Process. What's your reaction to Pictures of the Home?-www.patricia4realestate.com-Portsmouth NH Real Estate

Home shopping is an emotional process dominated by gut reaction to visual stimuli.

Buyers go to real estate sites to look at photos

They enjoy looking at photos. Pretty pictures = joy.

The smallest detail in a photo (wall color, fireplace, flowers in a garden) can trigger a strong, even illogical conviction: “If I don’t see any trees, something’s wrong”.

Photos are the first thing participants look at and the most influential

Bad Photo Equals Bad House

Participants feel few and/or poor quality photos mean “Don’t bother to look, move on, nothing to see here”

The agent or seller is lazy, not trying very hard or hiding something

There is nothing worth photographing; the house is ugly, dilapidated

Something is wrong, start worrying

This house isn’t ready to be shown or sold

GOOD = Lots of photos (20+); show every room; front and back yards; well lit, bright and inviting; show the entire room; well staged.

BAD = Few photos (less than 10); poorly lit, dark and neglected; show only one wall; lacks a sense of scale; no effort made to stage property.

So there you have it – ten of thousands of dollars spent in a study to summarize what each and everyone one of us knows in our heart already – People like good photographs. So do yourself and your seller a favor, take good photos.


What do you think about taking photos? I'd like to hear from you, please leave a comment.







Posted Thursday Jul 09