Real Estate Photography & Video in Evanston, IL.
Condos, two-flats, vintage units and single-family listings — photographed in one visit, with photos back in your inbox in under 24 hours.
Evanston buyers are comparing you to the city.
Evanston sits between two markets. A buyer looking here is usually also looking at Chicago, and the listings they scroll on the way are professionally shot condos with big windows and clean, bright interiors. That is the standard your listing is measured against, fairly or not.
The housing stock does not make it easy. A lot of it is older and vertical — tall rooms, smaller footprints, windows that face a neighbour rather than a view. Photographed carelessly, those rooms read as dark and cramped when in person they are neither.
So the interiors are lit and blended rather than grabbed, and the frames are chosen to show how rooms connect. On a smaller floor plan that is what communicates space — not a wide lens bending the walls.
What that means for your listing
- Held to a city standard. Buyers arrive having just scrolled downtown condo listings.
- Small rooms need light, not width. A stretched wide angle reads as a trick and shrinks the room on second look.
- Flow over inventory. How the rooms connect sells an older floor plan better than a photo of each one.
- Condo or house, same visit. Both price on the same curve, and neither needs a second trip.
A typical Evanston listing.
What 2,400 sq ft house listed at $650,000 actually costs, all three ways. Not a “starting at” number.
The fundamentals.
- Unlimited flambient + HDR photos
- Aerial drone photos
- Basic floor plan
- Photos by 11:30am next morning
Full coverage that competes.
- Everything in Essentials
- Enhanced floor plan
- Virtual twilight photo
- 3D virtual tour included
Every tool in the kit.
- Everything in Premium
- Cinematic listing video & drone video
- Enhanced + 3D floor plan
- True twilight, shot at dusk
Asked before every booking.
How much does real estate photography cost in Evanston?
A 2,400 sq ft Evanston home listed around $650,000 comes to $400 for Essentials, $650 for Premium and $1,555 for Estate. A 1,500 sq ft condo listed at $450,000 comes to $280, $455 and $1,180. Price scales with list price and floor area.
Do you photograph condos and two-flats, not just houses?
Yes, and in Evanston that is most of the work. A unit is priced on floor area and list price the same way a house is, and the shot list shifts to the rooms, the common areas, the view and a floor plan that explains a layout the photos cannot.
Is there a travel charge for Evanston?
Only on the lowest-cost shoots. The packages and the pricing curve are the same everywhere; a small travel amount raises the floor on the cheapest jobs, and it is shown before you book.
