Picture Perfect First Impression

Smart sellers know that presenting a home for sale means putting it in the best shape ever. Of course, all that work deserves to be shown to the best advantage - both in "real life" and in each and every view of your home. Often, this first impression comes from photographs.

Putting your home on the market without a photo is essentially not putting your home on the market at all. People want to peek before taking the time to view. Online listings, property websites and property brochures - each contain photographs designed to draw potential buyers to come walk through the home and to experience your property with a view towards ownership. Often photographs are what people keep with them as they are making decisions and considering what to bid. The goal: to enable the viewer to imagine themselves living in the home.

To show your property in its best light, higher an agent that uses a professional photographer. As the agent you are interviewing to show you samples of the photographers work. Capturing the details of a home or property is only one facet of what a professional achieves. In addition to a "professional eye" a real-estate photographer will often bring specific camera equipment, lighting and digital photographic software.

Listings that feature professional photography report higher sales prices and quicker sales. And, for those who want, you will have these professional photographs as memories you can keep for future generations.