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- Why Decluttered Images Help Sell Real Estate
- How to Declutter Your Real Estate Photos
- Trust AgentUp for Easy Photo Decluttering and More!
How to easily declutter listing photos is something many real estate sales agents frequently ask.
In our culture of abundance, many people have a lot of “stuff.” This can be a concern in real estate sales. Cluttered spaces don’t show as well. Agents want to know how to declutter their listing photos as a partial solution.
Photo editing technology has advanced to where it is now relatively easy to declutter photos to better appeal to buyers.
In this blog post, we’ll explain how to declutter your photos for real estate sales.
First, let’s talk about why decluttered spaces are essential for selling a listing quickly and for a higher price.
Why Decluttered Images Help Sell Real Estate
In real estate, first impressions matter. A home filled with clutter can quickly turn off potential buyers.
Unwanted items can obscure a room’s features, making it difficult for buyers to appreciate the space or even envision themselves living there.
Clutter can take many forms, from simply too many items in a small space to messy rooms. Here are some common examples of clutter:
- Dirty dishes and cluttered countertops
- Toys, pet items, and laundry scattered about
- Unmade beds and piles of clutter
- Electrical cords, crumpled towels, and storage bins
- Overcrowded driveways and unsightly utility lines
A lovely and tastefully furnished room with the latest furniture and artwork can look uninviting and unappealing if cluttered.
Let’s take this discussion a step further. How exactly does clutter hurt real estate sales? Consider the following reasons:
- Clutter can mask a room or space’s true potential
- A messy home suggests neglect and lack of cleanliness
- Potential buyers tend to focus on the clutter, not the home
Are there solutions for selling a cluttered home? Yes, but some of them aren’t quick or easy. For example, an agent could try the following:
- Encourage the seller to declutter, but it might take weeks
- Bring in a professional stager, but it’s expensive and still takes time
Remember, a clean and organized home is more likely to attract buyers and sell for a higher price.
Is there an easier and faster fix that helps you market the home while the seller starts to declutter and clean? Yes, thankfully, you do have one option – virtual decluttering.
Today’s technology makes photo editing more effortless than you might imagine. Moreover, it’s an inexpensive option that helps you get the home on the market while the seller declutters.
Let’s examine this technology and see how you can declutter photos.
How to Declutter Your Real Estate Photos
Virtual staging and real estate photo editing are two related techniques that help you declutter your listing photos.
Let’s take a closer look at both of these options.
1. How to Declutter Photos Using Virtual Staging
Virtual staging is an affordable way to declutter your real estate photos. Using virtual staging will allow you to begin marketing the home while your seller begins reducing their items.
An experienced virtual staging editor can remove unwanted objects and completely declutter any interior or exterior space. Additionally, there are apps and online tools that will allow you to do the same on your smartphone or laptop.
Virtual staging is highly flexible, and you can use it to declutter spaces. You can also use it to do the following:
- Place furniture, artwork, and other decor items
- Update carpeting, flooring, cabinets, and light fixtures
- Make virtual repairs or other renovation updates
- Present buyers with rooms and areas decorated in a variety of decor styles
By employing virtual staging, a real estate photographer or agent can change any space virtually to call out a property’s best features or uses.
Are you worried that buyers might feel tricked or lied to? With simple disclosure and including the “before” images, you can show a buyer a property in its best light without lying.
Think about this for a moment. This technology basically lets you be an interior decorator. You can declutter, redecorate, and experiment with different decor styles that are best to help you sell your listing.
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Then, look at AgentUp’s comprehensive virtual staging library that features 11 design styles, 21 room types, and 21 accessory types.
The design library allows you to choose between interior design styles such as:
- Mid-Century Modern
- Scandinavian
- Coastal
- Farmhouse
- Modern
- American
- Industrial
- Hamptons
- Luxury
- And Southwestern
Now, take a look at some virtual staging samples to see for yourself how effective virtual staging can be.
Next, the same advanced photo editing technology allows you to make other image enhancements. Let’s now explore those in more detail.
2. Other Advanced Photo Editing Techniques
As mentioned, photo editing technology has come a long way over the past few years.
The technology allows you to declutter photos and quickly provides for the removal of any items in any room or area.
For example, take a look at the following decluttering examples.
But like virtual staging, photo editing is versatile and can allow you also to do the following enhancements:
- Change cloudy skies to blue ones
- Turn a dead lawn green and enhance other landscaping
- Use twilight effects to add appeal
- And much more
Additionally, the same technology is used for image correcting, such as the following:
- Exposure adjustments
- Line straightening and perspective fixes
- Color enhancement and changes
- Also, reducing glare
Other uses of advanced photo editing include removing visible flaws, such as wrinkles on bed coverings, stains on fabric or carpeting, dirty windows, and minor repairs.
Now, you can search for DIY photo editing apps and learn how to declutter your photos. But there’s an easier, faster, and more affordable alternative: Let a professional declutter your photos.
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AgentUp can quickly and cheaply declutter your listing images and edit all your real estate photography.
Letting a professional service declutter, edit, and virtually stage your photos produces outstanding results, helping your real estate sales while also making you stand out among the competition.
Using AgentUp’s real estate photo editing service is straightforward and fast.
First, sign up for a free AgentUp account – it takes less than a minute.
Second, upload your images, let us know any specific instructions, select an export setting, and set a turnaround time.
Then, wait for us to send you the proofs for you to approve.
And that’s it!
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