Commercial real estate photography pricing
scoped from one published sheet.
Commercial real estate photography pricing at OpenDoors360 starts on the same published sheet as everything else we shoot, and the scope of the job sets the rest. HDR photography runs $200 to $575 by interior square footage up to 5,500 square feet. The walkthrough video, the 360 tour and the add-ons each have their own column beside it, and past 5,500 square feet, or across several sites, we write the quote by hand. Tell us what the images are for, how big the space is and how we get in, and you can read the number before we send it.
Every commercial quote is built from these published rates.
Square footage picks the row.
The sheet has one input, interior square footage, and it doesn't ask what kind of property you own. A 1,400 square foot storefront in Bushwick and a 1,400 square foot apartment two blocks away land on the same row at the same HDR price, and every row up to 5,500 square feet works that way. Commercial jobs get scoped on top of those rows.
| Square Footage | HDR Photography | 360 Virtual Tour | Video Walkthrough | Drone / Aerial NY Only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 - 1,500 sq ft | $200 | $300 | $150 | $250 |
| 1,500 - 2,500 sq ft | $275 | $400 | $200 | $250 |
| 2,500 - 3,500 sq ft | $375 | $500 | $250 | $350 |
| 3,500 - 4,500 sq ft | $475 | $600 | $300 | $450 |
| 4,500 - 5,500 sq ft | $575 | $700 | $350 | $550 |
| 5,500+ sq ft | Custom Quote. Call or text (701) 566-9171 | |||
| Add-ons · pair with any package, any size | ||||
| 2D Floor Plan | $125 per plan | |||
| Twilight | $200 5 images, flat | |||
| Rush Service | From $75 same-week, scales with property size | |||
| Square Footage | HDR + Video | HDR + Video + 360 |
|---|---|---|
| 0 - 1,500 sq ft | $300 | $575 |
| 1,500 - 2,500 sq ft | $400 | $775 |
| 2,500 - 3,500 sq ft | $525 | $975 |
| 3,500 - 4,500 sq ft | $675 | $1,200 |
| 4,500 - 5,500 sq ft | $775 | $1,400 |
| 5,500+ sq ft | Custom Quote. Call or text (701) 566-9171 | |
The instant estimate reads this same sheet, and Commercial is one of the property types on it. Pick Commercial, type in the square footage, choose HDR on its own or one of the bundles, and it hands back the number on that row as your starting point.
Anything over 5,500 square feet comes back from the estimator as a custom quote. Then, whatever the size of the space, we scope the job for the deliverable set, the access, the hours and the number of sites before the written quote goes out. The commercial real estate photography page covers the property types and the work itself, offices, retail, warehouses, restaurants, event spaces and medical offices. If the property is a house, a condo or a rental, the real estate photography pricing page reads this same sheet with worked residential examples.
Six things we ask before we price a commercial shoot.
Written quote in two business hours.
A commercial quote comes off six answers, and you'll have most of them in your head already. The address and what the space is used for, the interior square footage or the floor count, how many sites or units are in the job, how we get in and when, what the ceilings and the lighting are like, and what you need back at the end. Send those in one message and the quote comes back in writing within two business hours, already matched to the sheet.
The estimate is the fastest way to start, because it places the row for you and you arrive with a number in hand. From there the message can be short. An owner leasing a 3,200 square foot office floor in Midtown who needs HDR and a floor plan for the brochure by the 15th has told us four of the six in one sentence. The two still open, how we get in and what the ceilings are like, are a line each.
If you'd rather skip the form, text the same six answers to (701) 566-9171 and we'll reply with whatever's missing. A floor plan, a listing sheet or a site list with addresses helps when there is one, and a close square footage is enough to place the row before anyone drives out.
The sheet sets the floor. The scope sets the quote.
What moves a commercial quote off the row.
Sites · size · aerial
Square footage picks the row, and then the job itself decides how far the quote moves from it. Six things do that moving on a commercial space, the same six every time, and you can read every one of them off your own property before we ever see it.
- The deliverable set. HDR alone is one line. Ask for the walkthrough video and the 360 tour with it and you pay the bundle price on that row instead of three separate lines, and all three get shot on the same visit. A leasing brochure usually wants a 2D floor plan sitting next to the photos. Add $125 per plan for that, through our real estate floor plan service. Venues that take bookings online want the 360 tour, because the planner walks the room before they ever pick up the phone, and the post on 360 virtual tour cost goes through what a tour includes on its own.
- Access and hours. A shoot that has to happen before the store opens, after the office empties, or on a weekend through a locked yard is a different day than a walk-in with a manager, so we scope the day around the window you give us.
- Ceiling height and lighting. On a warehouse, a retail floor, an office or a storage facility, access and ceiling height drive the shoot day more than floor area does. Tall spaces need more frames to read their volume and take longer to process, and every one of those frames is still five exposures merged into one image.
- Multiple sites or units. We run a multi-site portfolio as one job with one schedule and one delivery, and each building sits on its own row by its own square footage. On a multifamily building we count the unit types that need their own set, then add the lobby, the amenities and the exterior.
- Over 5,500 square feet. The sheet stops there. Past it we build the day around the property itself, how many spaces it has and how long the walk between them is, and we write the quote by hand.
- Aerial, in New York. From the air you get the site, the parking, the roof and the frontage in one frame, and that runs $250 to $550 by tier for two video clips and five HDR aerial photos. Colin handles the airspace before the shoot, and he flies in New York, which is why aerial never shows up on a Maryland quote.
Who looks at the images is the biggest single lever, so we ask about the use first. Studio 87 is an event space, and the set for an event space is built around the rooms a planner scrolls through on a phone, the bar front, the open floor, the room dressed for a table setup, so the frames are wide, level and lit for a booking page. An office floor going into a leasing brochure wants a different set, the lobby, the open plan, the conference rooms and the view, sized for print. The sheet and the HDR process don't change between those two jobs. The shot list does, and the scope line on the quote is where that shows up.
The commercial scope sheet you can fill in yourself.
No prices on it, on purpose.
This is the list we work from when a commercial message comes in, laid out so you can fill it in before you send anything. Every row is one question, what the answer does to the quote, and where to go looking for that answer, usually the lease, a floor plan or a number you already carry around.
| What we ask | Why it moves the number | What to have ready |
|---|---|---|
| The use | Decides the shot list, the crop, and whether video, a 360 tour or a floor plan belong on the quote at all. | Who the images are for. A leasing brochure, an offering memorandum, a website, a Google Business Profile, or the asset file. |
| Square footage | Places each building on its row of the sheet, and the row sets the tier for video, the tour, aerial and rush as well. | The interior number from the lease, the tax record or the floor plan. A close figure is enough. |
| Sites or units | Turns one shoot into a schedule. Each building gets its own row, then the whole job gets one plan and one delivery. | A list of addresses, or the unit types that need their own set. |
| Access and hours | Sets how long the day runs and when it can happen. Before opening, after close, weekends and escorted access all change the day. | The window we can shoot in, and who meets us on site. |
| Ceiling height and lighting | Drives the day more than floor area on warehouses, retail floors and storage. Tall, mixed-light spaces take more frames and more processing. | Clear height if you know it, and whether every light in the space can be on. |
| Deliverables | HDR alone, a bundle with video or the 360 tour, a 2D floor plan, twilight, and aerial in New York. Each is its own line on the sheet. | Which of those you want, and the platform, brochure or listing they go into. |
| Deadline | Sets whether the shoot fits the regular calendar or needs the rush line. Delivery is 24 to 48 hours from the shoot. | The print date or the go-live date. |
Commercial jobs we've shot, described by scope.
Long Island, Brooklyn, Philadelphia.
Life Storage is the clearest example of a multi-site scope. Facilities in Glen Head on Long Island, in Bushwick and Brooklyn, and on Staten Island, shot as photos plus a hosted 360 tour, on one schedule and one delivery across the set. The Glen Head facility is a three-story building with a glass corner office, a row of roll-up doors and a loading bay, and that job included the aerial frames, which is the kind of New York line that goes on a quote as its own row.
Long Island is inside Colin's coverage, and the Long Island real estate photography page covers the rest of what gets shot out there.
Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights was our first commercial job, a 360 tour of a roughly 20,000 square foot cultural site, scoped as a tour first because the point was to let a visitor walk it before they arrive. Euphoria night club in Philadelphia was a venue where the room itself is what's being sold, so that work ran past interior photography into drone, video and a 360 tour. Studio 87 and Party Rockers Events Venue are both event spaces, and both were scoped for the booking page, so a coordinator can size the room, the bar and the flow between them without visiting first.
A 360 tour of a commercial space can also be published to a Google Business Profile, which is how a storage facility or a venue shows up walkable on Maps. We're a Google Trusted Photographer, and the tours we've published to Maps and Street View have passed 1,000,000 views. The Google Maps virtual tour page covers how that gets set up, and the 360 virtual tours page covers the tour itself, with six months of hosting included at every tier.
How the commercial quote comes back, and what's on it.
Within two business hours.
The quote comes back in writing within two business hours of your message, and it looks like the sheet you already read. One line per service at that row's price, with the scope written beside it, so you can check every number yourself before you say yes.
- The address and the interior square footage we priced from, and the row it landed on.
- Each service as its own line, HDR, video, the 360 tour, a floor plan, twilight, rush, and aerial in New York, at the sheet price for that row.
- The scope, written out. The shoot window, who meets us, the site list on a multi-site job, and anything over 5,500 square feet priced by hand.
- The delivery date, 24 to 48 hours from the shoot, with the tour on its own hosted URL if it was booked.
Colin writes the New York quotes and shoots them, the five boroughs plus Long Island and Westchester. Our Baltimore-based photographer does the same in Maryland, which is Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County. One sheet in both markets, and whoever writes your quote is the one who shows up with the camera. If the job is a building going up and you need it recorded as it does, that's construction progress photography, which is scoped on its own page. For everything else, send the six answers through the form, or contact a real estate photographer by text and we'll ask for whatever's missing.
Commercial real estate photography pricing, question by question.
Text (701) 566-9171
How much does commercial real estate photography cost?
Commercial real estate photography at OpenDoors360 starts at $200 for HDR photography on a space up to 1,500 interior square feet, and the same sheet runs $275, $375, $475 and $575 across the tiers up to 5,500 square feet. Video, a 360 tour, a floor plan, twilight and rush are their own lines on that sheet. Commercial jobs are then scoped for the deliverable set, the access and hours, the ceiling height and the number of sites, and anything over 5,500 square feet is a custom quote.
Do you charge more for commercial than residential?
The published sheet has no commercial surcharge on it. A 2,000 square foot office and a 2,000 square foot house sit on the same row at the same HDR price. What changes on a commercial job is the scope, because a warehouse with 20-foot ceilings, an after-hours shoot or three sites in one job takes a different day than a walk through a house, and the written quote prices that day.
How do you price a multi-site portfolio?
Multi-site portfolios are priced as one job with one schedule and one delivery. Each building is placed on its own row of the sheet by its own interior square footage, so a 3,000 square foot facility and a 5,000 square foot facility carry different HDR lines, and the scope covers the site list and the access at each one. Life Storage was a multi-site job of that shape, facilities in Glen Head, Bushwick, Brooklyn and Staten Island, photos plus a hosted 360 tour.
Is a 360 tour priced differently for commercial?
The 360 virtual tour costs the same on a commercial space as on a house, $300 to $700 by square footage tier with six months of hosting included, and booking it inside the HDR + Video + 360 bundle brings it in at that row's bundle price. Past 5,500 square feet, or on a multi-level facility where access and ceiling height drive the day, the tour is scoped by hand. A commercial tour can also be published to a Google Business Profile so the space is walkable from Maps.
What do you need to quote a commercial shoot?
A commercial quote needs six things. The address and what the space is used for, the interior square footage or the floor count, how many sites or units are in the job, the access window and who meets us, the ceiling height and lighting, and what you need back and by when. Send them in one message and the written quote comes back within two business hours. A floor plan or a listing sheet helps if you have one, and a close square footage is enough to place the row.
Do you shoot commercial in Baltimore?
We shoot commercial property across Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County on the same published sheet Colin uses in New York. Offices, retail, warehouses, restaurants, event spaces and medical offices all get HDR on every frame with delivery in 24 to 48 hours. The one line that doesn't appear on a Maryland quote is aerial, which is a New York service.
How fast is a commercial quote?
Commercial quotes come back in writing within two business hours of the message, as long as the message carries the six answers we scope from. Delivery of the images is 24 to 48 hours from the shoot, on one link, with a 360 tour on its own hosted URL. If the brochure or the listing needs the shoot itself sooner, rush scheduling is a separate line at $75 to $200 by tier, when the calendar has room.
Send the six answers.
The quote comes back scoped.
Address and use, square footage, sites, access and hours, ceilings, deliverables, deadline. A written quote comes back within two business hours, every line off the published sheet and the scope written beside it.
Google Trusted Photographer · 1,000,000+ Maps and Street View views · Brooklyn since 2020
