TOP TIP 4 Home Sellers Number 1:

Some estate agents offer "professional" photography but don't actually provide it.

One way you can tell a trained property photographer is by seeing if the vertical aspects of the scene are shown at a true 90 degree angle from the bottom of the image.

Now you know this you will start to notice this tell tale sign all the time. Look at any professional property image and you will see straight walls. Look at 90%+ of the images on Rightmove, On the Market or Zoopla and you will see walls sloping at 100 degrees or more.

This is caused by lens distortion made worse by the wider angle lens commonly used for this type of shot. Some agents negate this by lowering the camera to the mid height point of the room which I dislike just as much, simply because it gives the viewer a child's eye view. This can be only be appropriate in an arty sense or in the case previous, aboard a badly listing ship.

The only way around this is to spend some time and effort in post production.

So it's either ignorance (and therefore not "professional") or lack of time and effort invested to properly address this basic issue in post production. Either way you loose.

If you can't find an agent who can provide you with this most basic attention to detail please pass them my link or any link to a real property photographer in your area. I am sure any agent would rather pay a real property photographer to take your images than loose your business. If you don't ask you certainly wont get. At the very least I am sure your local property photographer will be able to arrange a good local agent for you or even liaise with the agent you choose.

Savvy buyers will look out for quality properties with bad marketing such as rushed shoddy images.