Condo photography enhancement for US condo listings

Built for US condo photography — StreetEasy, Zillow, Redfin, Trulia

US condo buyers shop portal-first, and each portal compresses differently. StreetEasy — the default for every Manhattan condo listing below 96th Street — re-encodes hero images aggressively and flattens shadow detail in dim-lit foyer shots. Zillow and Redfin resample for mobile-first galleries, so a clean 2.4K master with honest mid-tones survives the downrez while an over-sharpened 1080p source turns mushy. Trulia pulls from the Zillow feed but crops hero differently. Before any of that matters, the HOA photo policy rules: most Manhattan co-ops, Miami high-rises, and Chicago condo towers restrict identifiable residents in amenity frames, prohibit back-of-house (mail room, service corridor, loading dock) capture, and many now route photo approvals through BuildingLink before the MLS feed goes live. Plotpane knows nothing about your building's policy — you shoot around that — but Clutter Removal takes out whatever you name in a frame.

Unit plus amenity shoot split — one grade, ~2.4K export, about two minutes a frame

Condo listings are structurally two shoots: 8-12 unit frames (living, kitchen, primary, secondary bedrooms, bathrooms, balcony view) and 4-8 amenity frames (lobby, pool deck, fitness, clubroom, package room if it differentiates). Those are almost never shot on the same day or under the same light — the pool deck wants golden hour, the unit wants flat noon fill. Without a consistent grade the gallery reads as two disconnected sets and the buyer's eye notices. Auto Enhance holds one color register across both groups: the quartz in the kitchen and the travertine on the pool deck read as the same property. Output is a JPEG at quality 92, about 2.4K, the same size on every plan, priced inside a flat monthly plan that replaces the $4-$8/image retoucher charge most Manhattan and Miami agents are absorbing today. Turnaround is about two minutes per frame, not the 24-48 hours a retouching vendor quotes.

Condo association disclosure and MLS rules — the added complexity

Condo listings carry MLS disclosure requirements that single-family doesn't. REBNY in NYC, MRED in Chicago, SEFMLS in South Florida, and MLSPIN in Boston all require photo authenticity disclosure when an image has been materially altered — the sky replaced, seasonal foliage changed, or staging composited into an empty room. Condo associations layer on top: many Miami high-rises and SF condo towers (Millennium Tower, One Rincon, Lumina) require management pre-approval of any amenity photo before it can be syndicated. Plotpane writes an XMP disclosure tag into the file you download — your own dated record, not something that survives an MLS re-encode, so the disclosure that does the work is still the caption you type, backed by the visible "Virtually Staged" label you can switch on — and its two-minute turnaround means a kicked-back HOA revision ships the same morning rather than pushing the launch a week. The provenance-sensitive reviews Boston and Chicago buildings are increasingly running stop being a blocker.

• Unit and amenity shots locked to one editorial grade
• Window-pull recovery for floor-to-ceiling high-rise glass
• Item removal for resident, brand logo, or service-area capture
• ~2.4K JPEG at quality 92 — one master for the StreetEasy, Zillow, Redfin and Trulia hero
• XMP disclosure in your download — your dated record for a REBNY, MRED or MLSPIN query