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Ran across an article recently touting pro photos for residential listings as a great way to raise the sell price. Turns out that on the average listing (ie normal homes), it averaged only $1000 more, lol.
Not much of an incentive to pay big bucks for the pro shots.
There primarily isn't much incentive because the RE agents manage to sell plenty of homes with cheap/marginal pictures.
This is a harsh thing to say, but I've found many of the agents I've spoken to unable to make the connection to "better pictures=faster sales=more sales per year=more money", and this includes a couple of them who I have sat with and watched as they got like 2-3x the traffic in an open house and more than 50% of the people said they came because of the pictures.
The industry as a whole just doesn't get it.
You MAY find an agent who does, but it will be a rare find.