Hey guys, I’m a real estate photographer just starting out with iGuide, I’m wondering, with the discussion in here on rates where people are talking about charging a certain rate up to 2500sq ft then .09 or .10 per square foot after that, are you including the iGuide rate in that as well? I’m wondering because their base rate ends at 1500sq ft, so if you’re doing a 2400sq ft home, you pay more to iGuide but are you passing that along to your client? or is it all built in and you eat whatever it is up to that 2500sq ft mark?
I have steps from 1500, 2500, 3500, etc. All in packages. Every package I have starts with photos, floorplans and iGUIDE.
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Do you have an a example I could view? I just want to make sure I would be giving fair value…thank you
Hi Ken, I’ve been asked to capture a 27,000 sq ft school and I’m not sure how to bill such a large space.
I was thinking 1.5-2x the drafting costs, did your pricing listed above include the cost of drafting? It doesn’t seem like there would be much to take home.
Thanks
Geoff
How much did you end up charging?
I charge a flat rate up to 2200 sq feet then a per sq foot rate over and above.
This is an old thread but it appears to be getting life again. I’ve recently updated my pricing for real estate to $175 plus 10c/sf. I’m in WA and I always do Premium. I used to do it on ranges of SF but often got burned when clients wanted to add unfinished spaces or unattached garages.
Rates should be based on the market you’re in. What I would charge in the SF bay area isn’t what someone else should charge in Monowi, NE
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What ARE the rates in Monowi, NE? Asking for a friend…
I suppose since they have a population of 1 the rates could be whatever anyone wanted to set them at.
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May not be on topic here. . . Looking for advice - found an agent using my photos from a previous listing. My agents all sign a copyright notice that I retain ownership and they are not permitted to transfer the rights to use them to other agents. How have you handled this in the past? Will MLS remove them if I complain to them?
Contact the agent first and tell them they did not pay for the usage of the photos and that you would be willing to go shoot the house at your standard rate. If they refuse, contact a copyright attorney. (I assume your images weren’t registered with the feds? ← this just limits the amount you could recover.
In my case, I confronted the new agent about his unauthorized use of the photos. He countered that his client paid for the photos and give him permission to use them - and he was not about to pay me again for them. This was of course not the case - the previous agent paid for them, and I produced a copy of the Copyright Agreement the agent had to accept when he downloaded them. I contacted Realtor.ca (MLS) through the website contact form, and within a half hour they had removed the photos (at 8pm no less). The old agent also replied to my enquiry and he offered to contact the agent as well, stating he would be subject to fines from MLS for using the photos. Now it’s just a matter of how much time and energy I want to spend chasing every other place the photos are now being used such as the agent’s website, ZOLO.ca etc.
Screenshot every place they are being used. You want documentation. Then contact a copyright attorney. You’ve got a pretty big payday coming if you do this right (assuming you don’t want that agent as a future client). But if he’s ok with breaking copyright after being confronted with it, he sounds like a guy I wouldn’t want to do business with.
I’ve seen 5 figure settlements in favor of photogs who had their content used without authorization. And the liability goes up with every individual use.
Figure Planix bills you 3 cents a sf for drafting. Charge that minimally to cover your cost, then add your preferred billing on top of that.
I charge 10 cents a sf in Oregon.