Every listing, at its best.

This is the core of the work and the part that changes a listing most. Phone cameras get one thing badly wrong indoors: they cannot hold both a bright window and a dim room in the same frame, so you end up with a blown out window and a muddy interior. We rebuild the exposure so the room reads properly and you can still see the view.

Everything else follows from there. Lens distortion is corrected so the walls stand up straight, colour is graded to one consistent look across the whole set so the listing does not lurch from warm to cold as a buyer scrolls, and the small things that pull the eye are removed.

• Verticals straightened, lens distortion corrected
• Window blowout recovered, interior exposure rebuilt
• One consistent colour grade across the whole set
• Bins, cords, clutter and stray objects removed
• Lawns greened, patchy grass evened out
• Flat grey skies replaced with a natural blue
• Web sized and print sized files delivered
• Unlimited revisions until you sign it off

Market rate: A standalone property photography session in New Zealand starts around $180 and commonly runs $200 to $300 for a set of this size. That is before video, floor plans or any staging.

Not a slideshow with a Ken Burns pan on it. We build depth from each still so the camera appears to move through the space with real parallax, the way a gimbal shot does. It is cut to a music bed, graded to match the image set, and paced slowly enough to read on a small screen.

You get it in both orientations, because the portal wants landscape and the feed wants vertical. Listings with video get materially more engagement on every major platform, and most agents in this country still are not running it because of what it costs to book.

• 45 to 60 seconds finished, cut to licensed music
• Landscape 16:9 for the listing portal
• Vertical 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Stories
• Optional 15 second teaser cut
• Address and agency title card if you want one
• Your logo bug on the final frame

Market rate: A produced walkthrough video from a New Zealand property videographer generally starts around $350 to $550 as an add on to a photo package, and it needs a booked site visit that has to work around the weather.

An empty room is the hardest thing in property to sell, because a buyer standing in a bare space cannot judge scale. They cannot tell whether their sofa fits, whether the dining table works, or which wall the bed goes on. Staging answers all three questions in one image.

We furnish to a style that suits the property and the buyer you are aiming at, and we scale the furniture to the actual room dimensions rather than dropping in a stock sofa that makes the room look bigger than it is. Every staged frame carries a clear label.

• Scandi, coastal, family or executive styling
• Furniture scaled to the real room dimensions
• A clear virtually staged label on every frame
• One free restyle if the direction is not right
• Works on bedrooms, living, dining and outdoor areas
• Never used to hide a defect or alter the structure

Market rate: Digital staging in New Zealand typically runs $40 to $80 a room. Physical staging is an entirely different order of cost, commonly $2,000 to $5,000 for a six week furniture hire on a full house.

The dusk shot is consistently the strongest image on a property listing, and it is also the most expensive to shoot for real. The photographer has to come back to the property and work inside a twenty minute window when the sky and the interior lights balance, which means a second call out fee and a night that suits the weather.

We build it from a daytime exterior instead. The sky is replaced with a matched dusk sky, the interior lights are warmed and lit through the glazing, and the landscaping is lit to match. Shadow direction stays physically consistent, because a dusk shot with midday shadows fools nobody.

• Matched dusk or golden hour sky replacement
• Interior lighting warmed and lit through glazing
• Garden and hard landscaping lit to match
• Shadow and reflection direction kept consistent
• No second site visit and no weather dependency
• Structural features never altered

Market rate: A real twilight shoot in New Zealand is usually a $200 to $350 add on, precisely because it requires a second visit at a fixed time of day.