Show us your real estate pawn (vol 2)

[WilliamWoollard]

iluvmercs said:

...A friend took the aerial photographs....

Out of interest, how do agents get the aerial shots? Helicopter? Crane? Massive step ladders?

[FrankAbagnale]

Nowadays, drone.

Before drone it was often a camera on a tall pole.

For one huge estate we sold a while ago we hired some guys that had a serious drone set up to do a fly around the grounds - it was more of a small plane than the small drones you see today. They were all very tanned and couldn't talk about any of their work - although one did say they had military contracts or something similar.

Edited by FrankAbagnale on Thursday 22 January 09:58

[Jobbo]

WilliamWoollard said:

Out of interest, how do agents get the aerial shots? Helicopter? Crane? Massive step ladders?

A client of mine used to run a business taking aerial photos from a plane. Not sure how much he charged estate agents but I imagine a lot more than the cost of pictures from a drone.

[TTmonkey]

Jobbo said:

WilliamWoollard said:

Out of interest, how do agents get the aerial shots? Helicopter? Crane? Massive step ladders?

A client of mine used to run a business taking aerial photos from a plane. Not sure how much he charged estate agents but I imagine a lot more than the cost of pictures from a drone.

There are specialist photographers with massive camera 'cranes' that they tow around on trailers. These can extend 150 feet up to get a shot.

But they are being replaced by specky tts with drones.

[FrankAbagnale]

FWIW I think a local company use this drone -

http://www.dji.com/product/inspire-1

[TTmonkey]

Grand designs program used to use massive booms and helicopters.

But now it's a drone. You can see the shadow in some sweeping shots.

[RevsPerMinute]

Drones Drones Drones. It's all done with drones. Kind of feel sorry for the original Ariel photographers. In a space of 3 years you can now get the job done with a £1k piece of Kit, and everyone is doing it!

[Streetrod]

I am just about to invest in a DJI drone after my brother who has one could not stop singing its praises. Even the very high end ones can pay for themselves with a couple of days work. The heli's day are almost over I think, even major movie's use them now. The only advantage I can see a Heli might have is speed

[Shnozz]

I thought a licence was necessary to fly a drone for use in professional photography?

[BoRED S2upid]

DKL said:

I think we've had that before. Nice place, some it is a bit OTT for me and that's a pathetic garage for a house like that. PH garages matter.
And what's going on with the pictures?

Those pictures are like a game of Rightmove snap! Don't you just love 53 pictures of which 10 are unique. More expensive house just take 10 photos of the stair case that will sell it.

[Du1point8]

Shnozz said:

I thought a licence was necessary to fly a drone for use in professional photography?

Correct.

The aircraft must be registered with the CAA and have a permit for aerial work, this includes UAVs aka drones.

359 UAVs under 20kg were authorised by the CAA according to the guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/drone...

[iluvmercs]

WilliamWoollard said:

iluvmercs said:

...A friend took the aerial photographs....

Out of interest, how do agents get the aerial shots? Helicopter? Crane? Massive step ladders?

As others have said - I can confirm - my friend has a drone business. In his case he uses an octocopter drone.

Darren

[petemurphy]

has this been on? my rear doors are considerably bigger than yours..

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[AmitG]

Looket said:

I've been quite smitten by this lately:


http://www.groupe-mercure.com/en/buy/for-sale-chat...

That is lovely.

I've been spending an unhealthy amount of time looking at French chateau prawn lately.

There are some wonderful properties out there. Proper fairy tale stuff.

I had a conversation with someone from Groupe Mercure a while back and she said that the chateau market was all over the place and she had known offers as low as 50% of asking price to be accepted. With the recent decline in the value of the euro relative to sterling it starts to look tempting...

[anonymous-user]

petemurphy said:

has this been on? my rear doors are considerably bigger than yours..

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Personally, I would never allow an agent that can't get a floorplan to work on Rightmove to sell my £15,000,000 house.

[Du1point8]

Inkyfingers said:

petemurphy said:

has this been on? my rear doors are considerably bigger than yours..

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Personally, I would never allow an agent that can't get a floorplan to work on Rightmove to sell my £15,000,000 house.

personally if I was spending £15 million on my house, it would have both a) An actual garden and not 15ft of concrete b) a garage to park all the exotic cars I would have also bought.

I care not where this is located, if a) and b) are missing its instantly off the list.

[NomduJour]

Do you really think that would be the only house the buyer owns?

[RichB]

Inkyfingers said:

petemurphy said:

has this been on? my rear doors are considerably bigger than yours..
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

Personally, I would never allow an agent that can't get a floorplan to work on Rightmove to sell my £15,000,000 house.

Ha ha, that's disgraceful for what they'll make selling that!

[petemurphy]

Du1point8 said:

personally if I was spending £15 million on my house, it would have both a) An actual garden and not 15ft of concrete b) a garage to park all the exotic cars I would have also bought.

I care not where this is located, if a) and b) are missing its instantly off the list.

this one then sir http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[petemurphy]

"unusual manicured garden" but no photo - must be "erotic"..

house needs more colour inside

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...