What issues are currently affecting Commercial Real Estate firms with regards to obtaining architecture photography services?
I posted these questions originally in /r/architecture.  

*I am here to gain deeper understanding of the needs of  real estate / development firms and their marketing departments.*

I decided to make architecture / interiors photography the focus of my practice. In drafting my elevator pitch I realize that I could get better informed about what major problems plague the industry.

Questions:

* Do you have a shortage of available architecture/interiors photographers? How do you go about finding one?

* Is there an issue with the quality or scope of work being done?

* Are there services (virtual reality video tours; presentations with voice over, web albums, etc.) that you have seen elsewhere that you find difficult to obtain from your local archit. photographer?

* Any other pain-points for you and your team not being addressed by the photographers you utilize?

* Any missed opportunities that you would like to see addressed?

Thanks for the feedback.
[{"id": "cqmdle5", "text": "Short answer- Most buildings just aren't impressive enough to need a specialized photographer.  We usually go with someone that is relatively cheap and does acceptable work for a professional.  However, I'm not in a major market.  I think the New Yorks, Chicagos and LAs probably have much different needs. \n\n-Virtual tours are a huge plus if you can do them.  But every service I've found is way too expensive to be worth it on 99% of our deals.  ", "replies": [{"id": "cqmffv8", "text": "same not a big market problem, but we did try the virtual tour thing on some office properties.  We pretty much had some interns go out and make them and post the videos with the marketing materials.  I want to say we did 5 properties and out of all of them we got maybe 20 views of the video vs the huge amount we were getting on our listings through the various sites.  No one that toured a single property ever mentioned they watched the video.\n\nWe shit canned that entire experiement and figured people just don't want to watch videos.  Having good marketing packs/floorplans etc that brokers can pass on and can easily be distributed internally among our prospects decision makers seemed much more important.  \n\n*shrug* maybe it matters to some folks, but didn't seem to for us.  People seem to want paper/pdf stuff with quick facts, not long ass videos\n\nI guess thats not what op was asking about, but just thought I'd share since you mentioned the virtual tours.  \n\nedit-  also you are in my market I'm pretty sure based on your username", "replies": [{"id": "cqmfoox", "text": "Ha, nice try! I'm a former flyer, working in Cleveland.  LONG LIVE ARCHIE MILLER!", "replies": [{"id": "cqmfuhx", "text": "ah.  I'm actually in Cincinnati but I usually root for UD when I see them playing or tourney time (as long as they are no where close to uc/uk).  You all have a really nice program for the size of school.  Its crazy how much quality basketball comes out of this region.  My sister went to UD too so I feel like there is some vague connection\n\n//plus I really like sports lol", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "cqoi4b8", "text": "Hey,\n\nWhich market did you try this video experiment?\nWhat platform or is it on your own website that you shared the videos?\n\nJust curious....", "replies": [{"id": "cqrfam7", "text": "Cincinnati.  Just youtube that we linked to from our marketing stuff.  We probably kind of half assed it to be honest but based on feedback it didn't seem valuable enough to even worry about fancying up.  \n\nWe thought he'd at least get a nice bonus that our clients would like it.  They seemed to be pretty indifferent at all.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "cqmqdbx", "text": "Noted! Thank you dayflyer55", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]