The hills have guys.

There is a knack to show-home photography. You’re dealing with a house that has been styled with high end furnishings and accessories for viewings rather than photographic opportunities. There are always things to remove, and the exteriors are always adorned with marketing banners. The garage is inevitably a marketing office fitted with glass doors rather than garage doors, and the temperature inside them is never less than several thousand degrees. When shooting them for estate agents, the images will be unscrupulously used by the builders themselves – saving hundreds or thousands of pounds at your expense, and in order to keep working you have to shut up and put up with it. Copyright is a dirty word to every single company involved in marketing property, and I have images out there that have been stolen by estate agents and unashamedly credited to themselves (with a copyright notice helping themselves to the glory!) in order to sell multi-million pound properties. Unbelievable.