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Question about realtor.com
I see so many listings without pictures, or with only a picture of the outside. Does it cost a lot more to add pictures to your listing? If you wanted to have, say 8 or 10 pictures in your listing, what's a ballpark estimate on how much that would cost?
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Re: Question about realtor.com
It depends on your the real estate agency's package with Realtor.com. The last I checked, Realtor.com sells upgraded packages to the agency for their office, not just per listing. It is costly for an agency to buy upgraded packages. Not sure if it is still done this way. I haven't checked into this for a while because DH business only deals with flat fee fsbo clients and tries to keep cost as low as possible.
A basic Realtor.com package will transfer first 4 photos from the MLS. For instance, our MLS allows up to 12 photos, but only 4 transfer over to Realtor. Other MLS partner websites transfer some or all of the photos.
If you are seeing listings with no photos, it might be a new listing. Sometimes the listing info appears on Realtor first and there is a lag time before photos are posted. If you are seeing only 1 or 2 exterior photos, then the house is probably a bank owned and in need of work.
We were told that Realtor.com (and trulia.com, as another example) choose how many and which photos they put up for each listing.
Our listing, for example, has 28 photos on our realtor's website. On realtor.com it only has 4, and on trulia.com it has 21.
First of all, there are a million different websites and each one is different. There are just as many different MLS's around the country and each one is different. So, your local MLS will have their rules and capabilities re: the number of photos that can be uploaded. Then Realtor.com (and every other RE website) scrapes listings from the MLS public access sites. Many times, things get lost in translation. Often, they only take one photo and minimal information. It is one of my biggest causes of frustration with marketing, there are so many portals and I can't update or edit the listing on every one.
So....talk to your Realtor about the marketing and about how many photos are available. Understand that with some sites (yes, even Realtor.com), they may not be able to edit the information.
HTH & GL
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