Charleston Real Estate Blog

... wouldn't it be nice to at least have one picture. It's really pretty obvious. Today's house hunter not only wants pictures and lots of pictures but video, virtual tours, floor plans and as much possible information available about Charleston homes for sale they might be looking at. Now some might say that if you give a buyer ...

Let's face it, everyone wants to see as many photos as possible when searching the Charleston MLS online but there are some good reasons why sometimes there are few to no photos available. There are homes that are generously called "handyman specials" which is code for a real fixer upper. If you saw a front lawn and ...

We're seeing much more professional photography in the pictures of Charleston homes for sale these days and it probably will make a difference in which homes you would rather view. Today's Charleston house hunter wants to see a lot of pictures of available homes for sale. And they want good pictures too, not just that mandatory ...

On my new website / blog, a new weekly feature has just been added, Pictures of Charleston. And because alliteration is always fun, it will be available every Friday with the subtitle, Friday Photos. So far, featured have been St. Philip's Episcopal Church, one of Charleston's oldest and most beautiful churches along with ...

Happy Saturday. It's always fun to share really bad pictures that pop up in the Charleston MLS from time to time. Tilt! Does this home have structural issues or is the photo just taken on a sharp angle. Notice the bottom left of the photo where the person walking down the street is scurrying away from the home rather quickly just in ...

In our continuing effort to cover Charleston real estate photography from not just bad but utterly horrible pictures in the Charleston MLS to professional photography, virtual tours, video and other ways of presenting homes for sale to Charleston home buyers (and Charleston real estate agents looking for homes for their clients), let's talk a ...

I noticed a home listed for sale that met my buyers search criteria and it very well might be a very nice home. But the picture made me question whether it would be a good home to show or a waste of time. As you can see to your left, the home was obviously photographed at night and frankly, it looks like it's pretty scary to enter even ...

The Charleston MLS allows listing agents to post up to 24 pictures when listing homes for sale and they can be as large as 640 by 480 pixels. House hunters want to see as many pictures as possible, that's probably their number one basis for determining whether they want to personally view a home. So I was amused to find this listing that had ...

When viewing homes with a client the other day, we saw a very nice laundry room. I wish I took a picture of it for this post but that brings up one of the subjects of this post, laundry rooms are generally not photographed for Charleston MLS listings but for some reason, laundry closets which don't photograph particularly well always seem to ...

I'm not the world's greatest real estate photographer but there are several angles to consider when photographing a home, left, right, straight and from above. Since online house hunters who search the Charleston MLS are just as interested in finding homes they like as much as ruling out others for any variety of reasons, ...