We speak to experts about a lesser known 'trick of the trade' for the estate agents to bag a sale: photo editing. Read this and the rest of today's personal finance and consumer news below.
If you're a house hunter or have bought property in the past, you'll know a home with an attractive front, tidy interior and alluring features makes all the difference when you're trawling through listings online.But have you ever thought that the pictures you're looking at may have been edited before they reached your screen?Estate agents do an important job.
It's a tool that agents have.'Tom says a house is 'arguably the most expensive asset anyone's going to buy in their lifetime', and sellers will want to market theirs 'to the best of their ability to get the best price'.Robin Edwards, partner at property buying agent Curetons and a former estate agent, says photo editing by agents is 'widespread' and 'has become pretty much standard practice within the industry'.
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