The second shoot happened because the first one was taken in the rain

I've been following one listing in the neighborhood I want to buy in, mostly to learn how the marketing changes as a house sits. It went live in March with fourteen photos that were clearly shot in bad weather. Flat gray sky, standing water on the walk, and every interior with the lamps on so the rooms looked yellow against the windows. The exterior wide shot had a wet dark roof, which makes a perfectly fine roof look like it's failing.

It sat. First price cut at day 32, no new photos. Second cut at day 61, and three days after that the whole set was replaced. New shooter, blue sky, grass green, the same living room now reading as bright instead of dim. They added a video walkthrough with the agent talking, plus a 3D tour that wasn't there before.

What interested me is that the photo count went down, twenty-eight to nineteen. The new set dropped the awkward hallway and the mechanical room and the shot of the neighbor's fence. The old set had tried to show everything.

It went pending eleven days after the reshoot. I can't tell you the reshoot did it, since there were two price cuts in front of it and spring showed up in between. What I do believe is that the first set cost that seller something, because I skipped the house myself in March and only looked twice after the new photos, at the same house, at a lower price.