What Sets Us Apart
Sell The Lifestyle
Specializing in real estate photography and marketing in Southern California for well over a decade, our team at House of Pix has assisted over 1,000+ real estate agents and property developers throughout Long Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes in achieving remarkable results in selling or leasing properties.
Professional real estate photography is crucial in every residential or commercial marketing strategy, as first impressions are lasting. We know you have options, but it's worth investing in top-tier real estate photography team to capture images that truly resonate with your potential buyers.
Real Estate Photography
Starting at $265
Our real estate photography zeroes in on showcasing your property's unique qualities. We're focused on highlighting the spaciousness of interiors and the peaceful atmosphere of outdoor areas, ensuring potential buyers can easily envision themselves in the space. Our attention to detail and commitment to quality set us apart, aiming to captivate viewers at first glance. Join us in blending creativity with professionalism to make your property truly stand out.
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Long Beach, the South Bay and North Orange County
Long Beach sits in the corner where three markets meet, and we work all three. West around the peninsula is the South Bay and Manhattan Beach. South across the San Gabriel River is Huntington Beach and the north Orange County coast. It is why we can hold a morning in Belmont Shore and an afternoon in Seal Beach on the same booking sheet without either agent waiting a week for a slot.
Long Beach Real Estate Photography FAQs
Interior and exterior photography for a Long Beach listing starts at $265. That covers the shoot, full editing, and delivery of web-ready and print-resolution files.
What moves the number is square footage and what you add. A 1,200 sq ft Belmont Heights bungalow and a 3,400 sq ft Naples canal home are not the same shoot. The second takes longer on site and produces more frames. Drone, twilight, 3D tour, and video are priced as add-ons rather than folded into a single number, so you are not paying for aerials on a downtown condo that cannot legally have them.
There is no travel charge anywhere inside Long Beach. Travel is billed at cost only when a shoot sits outside our standard service area.
Full package pricing is on our packages page.
For a standard Long Beach single-family listing, most agents we work with land between $400 and $750 once they have added the pieces the property actually needs, usually photos plus either drone or a 3D tour, rarely both.
Condos downtown and in the Ocean Boulevard towers tend to sit at the bottom of that range: fewer rooms, no exterior to cover, no aerial. Waterfront properties in Naples, on the Peninsula and along Alamitos Bay sit at the top, because the water frontage is the selling point and it only reads properly from the air or at twilight.
Photography is almost always the listing’s marketing cost rather than the seller’s; it comes out of the agent’s side in the large majority of transactions we handle.
Short-term rental photography starts at $400. It is priced above a standard listing shoot for a reason: a rental has to be sold on atmosphere rather than floor plan, so the session is longer and involves styling, made beds, folded towels, set table, lit lamps, and the balcony arranged as somewhere you would actually sit.
Long Beach short-term rental demand clusters in a few specific places, and each shoots differently. Belmont Shore units live and die on how close 2nd Street and the beach look. Downtown and East Village lofts sell on walkability to the Convention Center, the Aquarium, and the Pike. Alamitos Beach and Bluff Park units sell on the ocean view, which means the shoot has to be timed to when that view is actually lit.
Vertical clips for the listing and for social start at $250.
Aerial coverage is an add-on starting at $150 when it is booked with a photo session.
Whether it is worth adding is genuinely property-dependent in this city, and we will tell you when it is not. On a Naples canal home, a Peninsula property, or anything on Alamitos Bay, the aerial is the shot that sells it; nothing at ground level explains the water frontage. On an interior unit in a downtown tower, it adds nothing you cannot get from the window, and in much of the downtown core it is also restricted airspace. See the drone questions below.
Yes. Any drone flight for a commercial purpose, and marketing a listing is a commercial purpose, requires a remote pilot operating under the FAA’s Part 107 rules. That applies to a hobbyist neighbor with a Mavic doing you a favor just as much as it applies to us. If an aerial shot is going on the MLS, the person who took it needed to be certificated to take it.
The reason this matters more in Long Beach than in most cities is airspace. Long Beach Airport sits near the centre of the city, and it is Class D controlled airspace. The City of Long Beach’s own guidance is that authorization is required for drone operations within five miles of any airport. Between Long Beach Airport, the Port, and the approach corridors, that radius covers a very large share of the city’s residential neighborhoods.
In controlled airspace, we request authorization through LAANC, which is the FAA’s automated system for exactly this, and we fly to whatever ceiling that authorization grants. In restricted areas that means a hard maximum of 30 metres. We do not fly first and ask later, and we will tell you before the shoot if a property sits somewhere the aerial cannot happen, rather than turning up, discovering it, and billing you anyway.
Our Part 107 certificate number is FA3B5X39H.
Near the airport and in most of the downtown core, only with LAANC authorization, and often only at a reduced ceiling. Over the Port itself and its secured terminals, no. That is not a matter of paperwork.
In practice this splits the city fairly cleanly. Aerials are usually straightforward in Naples, on the Peninsula, along Alamitos Bay, and across Belmont Shore and Belmont Heights. They are usually constrained or fully restricted in the downtown core, in East Village, and anywhere on the direct approach to Long Beach Airport — which affects a good part of Bixby Knolls and California Heights.
We check the airspace for the exact address before the shoot, not on the day.
A standard three- or four-bedroom home takes 60 to 70 minutes on site. A condo or a smaller unit is closer to 30 to 40 minutes. Short-term rental shoots run longer because of the styling.
Two things stretch it in this city specifically. Older housing stock, the 1920s Spanish and Craftsman homes through California Heights, Bluff Park and Belmont Heights, has smaller, darker rooms with deep-set windows, and getting those right takes more setups than a modern open plan. And on anything facing the water, we shoot around the marine layer rather than through it.
24 to 48 hours from the shoot, delivered as a gallery link with both web-sized and full-resolution files ready for MLS.
Same-day rush is available when a listing has to go live the next morning. If you are trying to hit a Thursday MLS entry for a weekend open house, tell us when you book rather than after the shoot. It costs less and it is easier to schedule.
Two to four days is comfortable. Shorter notice is often possible; just call rather than emailing.
Rescheduling is free, and you can do it through your confirmation email, the client portal, or by texting us. There is no penalty for a weather move, and in Long Beach that comes up more than people expect: May and June overcast can sit on the coast until early afternoon, and a Belmont Shore or Peninsula exterior shot into flat grey light is worth rescheduling for. We would rather move the appointment than deliver an exterior that undersells the property.
No. Most of our Long Beach shoots happen with nobody on site. A lockbox code, a key pickup, or a gate and unit code for a downtown building is all we need.
For the older buildings around downtown, Alamitos Beach and Bluff Park, the one thing worth confirming in advance is parking and building access — permit-only streets and buildings that need a fob for the lobby are the two things that actually delay a start time here.
All of them. In practice, most of our work sits in a handful:
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Belmont Shore, Naples and The Peninsula — the stretch running from Bluff Park down to Alamitos Bay, with the 2nd Street commercial spine through the middle. Waterfront, canal and walk-street properties where the aerial and twilight shots do the heavy lifting.
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Belmont Heights and Bluff Park — 1920s and 1930s Spanish-style homes, period detail worth photographing properly rather than flattening.
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California Heights and Bixby Knolls — both built out on subdivided Bixby ranch land from the late 1910s onward. California Heights is a designated Long Beach Historic District: Spanish Colonial Revival, Period Revival and Craftsman housing where the architecture is the selling point.
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Downtown, East Village and Alamitos Beach — towers, lofts and mid-century condo stock, where the shoot is about light, view lines and making a compact floor plan read as open.
We shoot across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a team of six photographers, so a Long Beach booking is not waiting on one person’s calendar.
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We send a prep checklist when you book. The short version:
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Clear kitchen and bathroom counters completely
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Every light on, every burnt bulb replaced
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Blinds and curtains open
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Personal photos, mail and pet bowls put away
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Beds made, pillows fluffed
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Cars off the driveway and out of the frame
Three that are specific to here. If the property has an ocean, bay or canal view, tell us which windows it is visible from — that view is the most valuable thing in the listing and we will build the shot list around it. If there is patio or balcony furniture stacked or covered, set it up; outdoor living is a large part of what a Long Beach buyer is paying for. And if it is a Naples or Peninsula property with a dock or a boat slip, make sure it is clear.
For short-term rentals, add the lifestyle layer: books, folded throws, fresh towels, cushions.
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