West Palm Beach Real Estate Photography

West Palm Beach sells two things that have almost nothing in common. One is a stock of 1920s houses in El Cid, Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights and Old Northwood — Mission and Mediterranean Revival architecture with original detail, protected façades and floor plans that predate open-plan living. The other is a downtown waterfront of condo towers along Flagler Drive whose value is the view across the Intracoastal to Palm Beach island and the walk to Clematis Street.

The historic stock is the harder shoot, and it is where most listing photography here goes wrong. These houses have small rooms, low ceilings by modern standards and small original windows, and photographing them the way a new build is photographed produces exactly the cramped, dim gallery that makes a buyer scroll past a house they would have loved in person. They need lighting and composition that shows how the rooms connect and what the original detail actually is.

The other constant here is the airspace. PBI Class C covers much of the city, and Palm Beach island attracts VIP temporary flight restrictions that appear with little notice and reach across the water. A TFR is absolute — no authorisation overrides it. We check before every aerial, and we would rather tell you the day before than fail to deliver the shot.