Rate sheetNew York · Baltimore

Six tiers by interior square footage

HDR photographyFrom $200

Real estate photography pricing

Real estate photography pricing
for New York and Baltimore.

Real estate photography pricing at OpenDoors360 is one published sheet, and it's the same sheet in New York and in Baltimore. HDR photography runs $200 to $575 by interior square footage. Video, a 360 tour and drone sit next to it in their own columns, the add-ons are flat, and the bundles take money off when you book more than one service on the same trip. Over 5,500 square feet we quote by hand.

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Section 01The rate sheet

Every rate we charge, by interior square footage.

Same numbers in both markets.
Read across, or let the estimator do it.

Find your square footage in the left column and read across. Or answer the estimator's questions about the property and it reads the sheet for you.

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
Virtual Staging	$50 per image
Twilight	$200 5 images, flat
Rush Service	From $75 same-week, scales with property size

Bundled pricing

Book together and save.

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 left column is interior square footage, and that number alone picks your row. HDR photography is the column every real estate listing starts in, because it's the only photography we sell, and the price carries no photo count. A 900 square foot condo in Astoria and a 1,400 square foot rowhouse in Hampden are both $200, and both get every room, the exterior and the details.

The instant estimate is the same sheet with the reading done for you. It asks a handful of things about the property first: which market it sits in, New York or Baltimore, and what kind of property it is (residential, commercial, short-term rental, or vacant land). Then whether it's selling or renting, which square-footage tier it lands in, which package you want (HDR only, HDR + Video, or HDR + Video + 360 Tour) and which add-ons go with it. The number it hands back is a number off this sheet. Over 5,500 square feet it stops, says custom quote, and hands you to us.

OpenDoors360 HDR real estate photography in New York City: a bright double-height living room with a white modular sectional, a tan leather ottoman on a faded gray patterned rug, floating oak shelves holding books and framed photos on either side of a large abstract painting in green, ochre and blue, gray wainscot panels, a French door with sheer curtains opening onto a balcony that faces a brick apartment building with fire escapes, and light oak floors. — New York City · a double-height living room, five exposures per frame, the balcony held against the room

Section 02How the tiers work

Interior square footage sets the tier, and the tier sets the price.

Five priced rows.
One custom row.

The sheet has one input. Measure the interior, find the row it lands in, and every price on that row is yours. We don't price by bedroom count, by photo count or by the asking price of the listing, so a 1,200 square foot rental and a 4,000 square foot house are quoted off the same logic and land on very different rows.

The reason is time, on site and after. A 1,200 square foot one-bedroom in Bed-Stuy is a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, a bath and the front of the building, and every one of those frames is five exposures merged into one image. A 4,000 square foot house in Howard County has a foyer, a family room, a kitchen with an island, a dining room, an office, four bedrooms, three baths, a finished basement, a deck and a yard, and every one of those frames is also five exposures. More rooms means more frames in the house and more post production at the desk, so that house sits three rows down at $475 for HDR while the one-bedroom sits on the first row at $200.

If you don't have the interior square footage handy, the tax record, the real estate listing sheet or the floor plan usually carries it, and a close number is enough to place the row before the shoot.

OpenDoors360 HDR real estate photography in New York City: a narrow galley kitchen with white shaker cabinets, white subway tile, speckled tan quartz counters, a stainless range with a green towel on the handle, a dishwasher and microwave, a paper towel roll mounted under the cabinets, black metal wall shelves holding plates and a knife block, two rattan bar stools with blue cushions, and an open door at the far end onto a small deck with a rug and green trees. — New York City · a galley kitchen, the deck door held open at the end of the frame

OpenDoors360 HDR real estate photography of a Baltimore, Maryland rowhouse living room shot straight on: two light gray sofas with yellow-and-black leaf pillows, a white coffered ceiling, a black geometric trim panel over a white fireplace mantel with mosaic tile, two blue-and-gold abstract paintings, a navy vertical-stripe accent wall at left, vertical blinds, a glass coffee table on a patterned rug and oak floors. — Aisquith Street, Baltimore · a rowhouse living room, shot level from the front wall

Section 03Worked examples

Three listings, priced off the sheet.

The same math the estimator runs.
Check it against the table.

Find the card closest to your own listing and you can read the invoice before it exists. Every bundle price on these three is a row lifted straight off the table above, and the note under each total shows what the same work costs when the services are booked one at a time instead.

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

1,200 sq ft one-bedroom

Tier 0 to 1,500 sq ft

HDR photography$200

Total$200

One service, one line on the invoice. The apartment is a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, a bath and the front of the building, all of it in HDR.

Canton, Baltimore

2,100 sq ft rowhouse

Tier 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft

HDR + Video bundle$400

Total$400

Book those two apart and it is $275 for the HDR and $200 for the walkthrough video, so $475. Bundled it is $400, because the camera only comes through the rowhouse once.

Howard County, Maryland

3,800 sq ft house

Tier 3,500 to 4,500 sq ft

HDR + Video + 360 bundle$1,200
Twilight, five images$200

Total$1,400

On their own the three are $475 for the HDR, $300 for the video and $600 for the 360 tour, so $1,375. The bundle brings that to $1,200. Twilight is not part of it and stays a flat line of its own.

Section 04The bundles

Book two or three services on one trip and the sheet gets cheaper.

HDR + Video from $300.
HDR + Video + 360 from $575.

A bundle is cheaper for one plain reason. The photographer is already in the house, the blinds are already open, the lights are already on and the camera is already level, so the video and the 360 tour get shot in the same visit and the second trip and second setup never happen. The sheet passes that on.

HDR + Video starts at $300 on the smallest row and steps up through $400, $525, $675 and $775, and every one of those sits $50 to $150 under the two services bought apart. HDR + Video + 360 opens at $575 and climbs through $775, $975, $1,200 and $1,400, and the gap there runs $75 to $225. The video is the 1-take walkthrough from the real estate videography page, 4K, one continuous pass through the property. The tour is the same product as on the 360 virtual tours page, hosted for six months on its own URL, and the post on 360 virtual tour cost covers what a tour includes when it's booked on its own.

Which bundle a listing wants comes down to who's going to look at it. A rental that turns over every year sells on photos, and HDR alone is the right call. A house that will draw buyers from out of state, or a furnished short-term rental that has to book itself online sight unseen, is where the walkthrough video and the 360 tour earn their line, because the buyer or the guest walks the place on a phone before they ever call you. How the video line prices on its own, and what each bundle saves against it, is in real estate video pricing by square footage.

OpenDoors360 HDR real estate photography of a furnished short-term rental in Rosedale, Baltimore County, Maryland: an open living and dining room with a bay of three tall windows, a dark leather sofa and loveseat, a wooden dining table set with white plates and mugs, a gray shaker kitchen with a stainless microwave seen through the opening, a ceiling fan, a wall-mounted TV at right and oak floors. — Rosedale, Baltimore County · a furnished short-term rental, dining and living room in one frame

Drone photography doesn't sit in either bundle, because it's a New York line and Colin has to clear the airspace over the property first. It goes on as its own row, $250 to $550 by tier, on top of whichever bundle the listing takes.

Twilight, staging and rush sit outside the bundles too and go on any of them at the flat add-on price, so a listing can take HDR + Video and add twilight without touching the bundle math.

Section 05The add-ons

Four add-ons, each one its own line on the invoice.

Staging · Twilight
Rush · Drone

Add-ons go on any package at any size. Staging is billed per staged image, twilight comes as one set of five, rush moves with the size of the property, and drone is a New York service that Colin runs. The staging line has its own explainer, what virtual staging costs per room.

Virtual staging, $50 per image. Furniture placed into the photograph after the shoot, in a vacant room, at the scale the room would hold. It's priced per staged image, so stage a living room frame and a bedroom frame on a $200 shoot and the invoice reads $300. The virtual staging page covers which rooms earn it and which ones don't.
Twilight, $200 flat for five images. Five HDR frames shot at dusk with the interior lights on, exterior-led. It does the most on a property with landscape lighting or a view that reads at that hour, and it's the same $200 on a $200 shoot as on a $575 one. When it earns the $200 and when it does not is walked through in our guide to twilight real estate photography.
Rush, $75 to $200. Same-day or next-day scheduling when the calendar has room. $75 on the first two tiers, then $100, $150 and $200. Ask on the first message and the reply says whether it fits that week.
Drone photography and aerial, $250 to $550, New York only. Two finished video clips and five HDR aerial photos of the property from above. It holds at $250 across the first two tiers, then goes $350, $450 and $550. Colin handles the airspace and the permitting, which is why it only shows up on New York quotes.

OpenDoors360 HDR photography of a small short-term rental bedroom in New York City: white walls, a rattan pendant light, a bed with a white throw dotted in yellow, blue and coral, an olive velvet pillow, a macrame wall hanging, a white nightstand with a rattan lamp, a tall leafy plant, sheer white curtains, a black-and-white Moroccan-pattern rug and a small white floor fan. — New York City · a short-term rental bedroom, furnished as found, first tier

Section 06Off the sheet

What the sheet leaves out, and where those quotes come from.

5,500+ sq ft.
Commercial, by use.

Two kinds of property don't get a number off the grid. Anything over 5,500 interior square feet is a custom quote, because at that size the day gets built around the house and a fixed row would misprice it. Send the address and the square footage and the quote comes back in writing within two business hours, the same as any other booking.

Commercial real estate is the second one. The sheet still sets the starting number by interior square footage, then an office, a retail floor, a restaurant or an event space gets scoped on top of that by how the space is used and how we get into it. What we ask and what moves the number is on the commercial real estate photography pricing page.

Floor plans sit outside the grid as well. We measure the plan on site while we're shooting and draw it up as a 2D floor plan that comes back with the photos, and it carries its own price on the real estate floor plan service page rather than a column here.

Everything else is on the grid above. Inside the areas we cover the published rate is the rate, and those areas are the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester in New York, and Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County in Maryland.

OpenDoors360 commercial real estate photography of an event space: a long white room with a black faceted geometric bar front under a white counter, five white metal bar stools, a wall-mounted TV, a white molded chair, a potted plant in a basket, a hand-sanitizer stand and a gray marble-look floor. — An event space · the bar front and stools, quoted off the commercial sheet

If it isn't on the sheet, it isn't on the invoice.

Section 07Reading a quote

Seven questions to ask before you book any photographer.

Ours are on the sheet.
Ask everyone the same seven.

Real estate agents comparing quotes from the real estate photographers working New York or Baltimore get through it faster once they know what to ask, and the questions don't change based on who sent the number. These are the seven we'd want answered if we were the ones paying.

Is the price set by square footage, by photo count or as a flat rate, and what happens at the edge of a tier?
Is HDR the standard on every frame, or a step up from a base package at a different price?
What's the turnaround time on delivery, and is it inside the quoted price or a separate line?
Are the video and the 360 tour shot on the same visit as the photos, or does each one mean another trip?
If there's a 360 tour, is the hosting included, and for how long?
Is drone photography legal over this property, and who is checking the airspace?
What does rush scheduling cost, and how do I find out whether it's open for the week I need?

Ours are all on the sheet already. Interior square footage sets the tier, with a custom row past 5,500. HDR is the only photography we sell, so there's nothing underneath it to step up from. Delivery is 24 to 48 hours and it's inside the price, not next to it. The video and the tour ride along on the same visit, and tour hosting runs six months. Drone is a New York line that Colin clears. Rush is $75 to $200 by tier, and whether it's open comes down to what the calendar looks like that week.

Section 08Booking

Address, square footage, services, deadline.

Written quote in two business hours.
Delivery in 24 to 48 hours.

Booking starts with four things. The address, the interior square footage, the services you want off the sheet, and the day the listing goes live. Send those through the form or by text and a written quote comes back within two business hours, already matched to the sheet, so there's nothing left to work out on the day. It's the same four things and the same sheet whether you're a real estate agent taking a listing to market or an owner renting the place out yourself.

Colin shoots New York, which is the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester, and the New York real estate photography page goes through it borough by borough. Maryland belongs to our Baltimore-based photographer, and that's Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County, with the counties laid out on the real estate photography in Maryland page. One sheet for both real estate photographers, and the person who quotes the job is the person who parks outside it.

Photos come back on one link in 24 to 48 hours, with the 360 tour on its own hosted URL if it was booked. We've shot more than 250 properties since we started in Brooklyn in 2020, more than 100 of them Airbnb units, and as a Google Trusted Photographer the tours we've published to Google Maps and Street View have passed 1,000,000 views. For the wider market, the post on what real estate photography costs covers what moves the number across the category, and if you'd rather skip the form you can contact a real estate photographer directly by text.

Section 09Common questions

Real estate photography pricing, question by question.

Something else?
Text (701) 566-9171.

How much does real estate photography cost per square foot?

We price by square footage tier, not by the foot, and the difference shows up when you do the math. HDR photography is $200 for a property up to 1,500 interior square feet, $275 up to 2,500, $375 up to 3,500, $475 up to 4,500 and $575 up to 5,500, so the cost per foot drops as the property gets bigger. Past 5,500 square feet the quote is custom.

Is there a minimum order for real estate photography?

There is no minimum. The smallest line on the sheet is HDR photography at $200 for a property up to 1,500 interior square feet, and that price already covers every room, the exterior and the details. You can book HDR on its own with nothing else attached and the invoice is that one line.

Do you charge for travel?

The published rate is the rate inside the areas we cover, which are the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester in New York, and Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County in Maryland. For a property outside those, say so in the first message and we'll put the number in writing before anything is booked.

What happens over 5,500 square feet?

Anything over 5,500 interior square feet is a custom quote. The grid stops there because past that size the shoot is built around the specific house, how many rooms it has and how long the day runs, and a fixed row would misprice it one way or the other. Send the address and the square footage and the quote comes back in writing within two business hours, the same as any other booking.

Are the prices the same in Baltimore and New York?

Every number on the sheet is the same in New York and in Baltimore. HDR photography, walkthrough video, 360 virtual tours, virtual staging, twilight, rush and both bundles are priced identically whether the shoot is in Brooklyn or in Baltimore County. The one difference is drone and aerial, which is a New York service only and doesn't appear on a Maryland quote.

What does the bundle save?

HDR + Video saves $50 to $150 against the two services booked separately, and HDR + Video + 360 saves $75 to $225 against the three. Take the 1,500 to 2,500 square foot row. HDR is $275 and the video is $200, so $475 booked apart and $400 as the bundle. Put the 360 tour on top at $400 and you're comparing $875 apart against $775 bundled. The saving gets bigger as the property does, because the bundle is priced for one trip and one setup.

Do you charge per photo?

We don't charge per photo, and the sheet has no photo count on it anywhere. Every tier covers the whole property, which means every room, the exterior and the details a buyer slows down for, and the number of frames lands wherever the house puts it. A small condo and a large colonial are both shot in full, at the price of their own row.

How fast is delivery?

Delivery is 24 to 48 hours from the shoot, on one link, and it's included in every price on the sheet. A 360 virtual tour comes on its own hosted URL with six months of hosting included. If you need the shoot itself sooner, rush scheduling is a separate add-on at $75 to $200 by tier and depends on what the calendar looks like that week.

Get a number

Send the address.
The quote comes off this sheet.

Address, interior square footage, the services you want, and the day the listing goes live. A written quote comes back within two business hours, and every line on it is a line off the sheet.

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