How much does real estate photography cost in Boca Raton?

Boca Raton pricing starts at $199 for the Basic package on a listing under 1,500 square feet and scales by square footage — larger estate homes fall into the upper tiers. The Standard package, which adds drone and video, starts at $399. There is no Palm Beach County travel fee and no deposit when you book by phone. Online: 20% deposit; balance after delivery.

Can you get into Royal Palm, Boca West or St Andrews?

Yes, as long as the listing agent or homeowner adds us to the gatehouse vendor list in advance — usually a day ahead, and some communities also want vehicle details. Tell us the community at booking and we confirm the requirement before the shoot date.

Can you photograph the clubhouse and golf course?

It depends on the club. Some permit amenity photography for listing marketing when no members are in frame, some require written approval from the club manager, and some prohibit it. We check with the club before the shoot so you are not left with images you cannot publish.

Is drone photography allowed over Boca Raton listings?

In most of the city, with LAANC authorisation. Boca Raton Airport sits centrally and its Class D airspace covers a substantial part of the city, so the approved ceiling depends on the exact address. We verify the grid before confirming drone on your booking.

How far in advance should I book during season?

From November to April, and especially in January and February, book as soon as the listing agreement is signed rather than when the listing is ready to go live. Off-season, a few days' notice is usually enough.

Are the images formatted for BeachesMLS?

Yes. Every gallery ships as a set sized and named for BeachesMLS plus a full-resolution set for print, brochures and brokerage websites.

The house has been closed up since spring. Does that matter?

It does. Run the A/C for several hours beforehand, open the hurricane shutters, and have the pool serviced. We send a full prep checklist when the shoot is booked — a shuttered, humid house photographs dark and stale no matter how it is lit.

Do you have an office in Boca Raton?

Estate Shutter FL is a mobile studio. We travel to Boca Raton; there is no walk-in studio address in Boca Raton. Booking, gallery approval and delivery all happen online or by phone.

Boca Raton Real Estate Photography

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What we shoot in Boca Raton

Country-club and golf frontage

At Boca West, St Andrews, Woodfield and Broken Sound, the fairway or lake behind the house is a priced amenity. We shoot it from the ground at the right hour and from the air to show the hole, the water and the club proximity in one frame.

Gated-estate exteriors

Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, The Sanctuary and Le Lac homes sit behind walls and hedging, which makes street-level exteriors difficult. Elevated and aerial angles, cleared with the community, are how these properties actually get shown.

Intracoastal and lakefront

Royal Palm and Sanctuary waterfront listings get the full water treatment: dock, seawall, and the aerial that shows the run to the Boca Inlet and whether a fixed bridge sits in the way.

Mizner Park and downtown condos

Downtown Boca sells on walkability. Unit interiors plus the amenity deck, and exteriors that place the building relative to Mizner Park and the beach a mile east.

Shooting in Boca Raton: what is actually different

Boca is a gated market with a seasonal calendar, and both of those shape a shoot more than the photography does. Getting in is a scheduling problem, and when you shoot is a market-timing problem.

Gatehouse vendor listing

Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, The Sanctuary, Boca West, Woodfield, St Andrews and Broken Sound all run manned gatehouses that will turn away a vendor who is not on the list. The listing agent or the homeowner has to add us, usually a day ahead, and some communities want the vehicle details too. We ask for the community name at booking and confirm what the gatehouse needs before the shoot date, because a refused entry costs the whole slot.

Club rules on photographing amenities

Country clubs are private and most restrict photography of the clubhouse, courses, courts and dining rooms — some prohibit it outright for listing marketing, others allow it only when members are not in frame, and a few require written approval from the club manager. We ask the question in advance rather than photographing an amenity you cannot legally use in the listing.

Boca Raton Airport Class D airspace

Boca Raton Airport sits centrally, just west of the Intracoastal near Florida Atlantic University, and its Class D airspace covers a meaningful part of the city — including parts of downtown and several of the eastern communities. Every flight inside it needs LAANC authorisation, and the approved ceiling varies by grid. Aerial work is flown by FAA Part 107 certificated remote pilots; LAANC authorisation is filed by the pilot before every controlled-airspace flight. We check the address before quoting an aerial.

Hedging, walls and mature landscaping

Boca estates are deliberately screened from the street, which is exactly what the owners paid for and exactly what defeats a normal exterior photograph. The usable front elevation is often only available from a specific angle at a specific hour, or from 80 feet up. We scout that rather than delivering a photograph of a hedge.

The snowbird calendar

Listing volume here concentrates between November and April, when seasonal residents are in town and buyers are physically present. Shoot slots in January and February book out well ahead, and a listing that goes live in that window without media loses its best weeks. From June to September the market is quieter but afternoon storms compress the shooting day.

Occupied seasonal homes

Many Boca listings are second homes that are either shuttered or occupied by seasonal residents. Shuttered homes need the hurricane shutters opened and the A/C run before a shoot so interiors are not dark and humid; occupied ones need a genuine prep pass. We send a prep checklist when the shoot is booked.

Services we shoot in Boca Raton

Drone photography in Boca Raton

Aerials solve the two problems this market creates: hedged estates that cannot be shot from the street, and golf or lake frontage that has to be seen from above to register as an amenity. Flights inside Boca Raton Airport's Class D airspace are authorised through LAANC before the shoot, and we confirm the grid ceiling for the address rather than assuming it.

Drone photography

3D virtual tours

Boca sells heavily to out-of-state buyers who visit for a week in season and shortlist from home for months beforehand. A scanned tour with accurate room measurements does the filtering, and for large country-club homes it answers the layout questions that a 40-photo gallery leaves open.

3D tours and Matterport

Video walkthroughs

For a gated estate the walkthrough usually opens from the air — over the gate, the drive and the roofline — then cuts to the front door. It is the only way to show a property whose curb appeal is deliberately invisible from the curb.

Video walkthroughs

Twilight exteriors

Standard on luxury listings here. Landscape lighting in Boca estates is designed and expensive, and it only appears in a photograph at dusk. We arrive early, get the lighting turned on and the pool lit, and shoot the roughly 20-minute window.

Twilight photography

Virtual staging

Useful on estate-sale and vacated seasonal homes, where large formal rooms read as cavernous when empty. Staged images are labelled as digitally altered for MLS disclosure.

Virtual staging

Boca Raton real estate photography package prices by square footage
Package	Starts at	What you get
Basic	$199Under 1,500 sqft	30–40 HDR interior + exterior photos · Color correction & sky replacement · 24-hour delivery · Unlimited usage rights
Basic+	$2990–1,500 sqft	40–50 HDR photos · Photo slideshow video with music · 2D floor plan with dimensions · 24-hour delivery
Standard	$3990–1,500 sqft	50–60 HDR photos + 4K cinematic video · FAA Part 107 drone aerials · 2D floor plan with measurements · Dedicated property website · 24-hour delivery
Pro	$6990–1,500 sqft	60–70 HDR photos + 3-min cinematic tour · Drone + community aerial footage · Zillow 3D / Zillow 3D virtual tour · 2D or 3D floor plan · 5 social-media reels + digital staging · 24-hour delivery

Boca Raton photography challenges we solve

Every Boca Raton listing is different. Here's how we make each property's strengths impossible to miss.

The house is invisible from the street

Walls, gates and mature hedging screen most Boca estates, so the standard front-elevation photograph shows landscaping and not much else.

Our approach: Elevated and aerial angles cleared with the community, plus a scouted ground angle at the hour the light works.

Access is controlled by people who are not the seller

Gatehouses, club managers and HOA boards each decide independently whether the shoot happens and what can be photographed.

Our approach: Community name collected at booking, vendor listing and amenity permissions confirmed before the shoot date.

Season compresses everything

Listings cluster into November-to-April, so the best shoot slots disappear exactly when they are most needed.

Our approach: Book at listing-agreement stage rather than at go-live; we hold in-season slots for repeat agents.

Shuttered second homes photograph poorly

A home closed up since spring is dark, humid and stale, and it shows in the images.

Our approach: A prep checklist sent at booking: shutters open, A/C running ahead of time, lights on, pool cleaned.

How a Boca Raton booking works

1

Book

Pick a package, address and a preferred window. Confirmation within 1 hour during business hours.

2

Shoot

Photo, drone and Zillow 3D on-site. Estate listings get architectural detail frames, grounds aerials and twilight exteriors that match the price point.

3

Deliver

Edited gallery, MLS-ready files, drone and any 3D tour delivered in 24 hours.

The Boca Raton market, and how we shoot for it

Boca Raton is a gated market, and that single fact changes the job. In Royal Palm, St Andrews, Boca West and The Sanctuary, the property is screened from the street on purpose, the amenities that justify the price belong to a private club rather than to the house, and whether a photographer gets through the gate at all is decided by someone who has never spoken to the seller.

The consequence is that a Boca shoot is planned days before it happens. Vendor listing at the gatehouse, written permission for clubhouse and course imagery where the club requires it, and a LAANC authorisation if the address falls inside Boca Raton Airport's Class D airspace. Get those wrong and there is no shoot, regardless of how good the camera is.

The second factor is the calendar. This is a seasonal market that concentrates into November through April, when seasonal residents and buyers are physically in town. A listing that comes to market in January without finished media is burning its strongest weeks, which is why in-season slots are worth reserving at listing-agreement stage rather than at go-live.

Boca Raton neighborhoods we cover

Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club

The Sanctuary

Boca West

St Andrews Country Club

Woodfield Country Club

Broken Sound

Le Lac

Mizner Park

Boca Bath & Tennis

Les Jardins

Boca Pointe

Old Floresta

Boca Islands

Highland Beach

Downtown Boca

East Boca / A1A

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