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Villa & vacation rental photography · Mérida
In short
Villa & vacation rental photography in Mérida starts at $350: 3 hours on location with a photographer who works in Mérida, and 35 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 72 hours.
Why choose villa & vacation rental photography in Mérida?
Mérida's property market is built on one kind of house: the long, narrow colonial or Porfirian home of the Centro, restored around an interior patio with a pool, tall ceilings and a façade on the street. Those houses photograph unlike a beach condo. The street front is narrow and often in shade, the rooms run back in a line, and the patio is the money shot. A Mérida listing session is planned around where the sun is over the patio rather than around the façade, and it uses the hours when the light reaches the floor of that patio.
Worth knowing about Mérida
A Centro listing is shot from its own roof, not from the air. Every block of the Centro Histórico is within 9.2 km of the runway on the Mérida–Umán road, the distance under which the federal drone standard asks for special authorisation from the aviation agency, so the aerial view of a Centro house comes from a pole camera or the roof terrace.
What does the session in Mérida look like?
- Interior patio and pool
- The picture that sells a Centro house, shot when the sun is high enough to reach the floor.
- Street façade
- Shot when the street is in even shade, early or late, with no parked car in front.
- Roof terrace
- Views over the Centro's rooftops and church towers, at the end of the afternoon.
What does villa & vacation rental photography in Mérida include?
- 3 hours on site at one property, interiors and exteriors
- 35 edited photographs, colour-corrected and straightened
- Edited files delivered within 72 hours
- A preparation checklist sent before the session
- Horizontal and vertical crops for listing platforms and social media
FAQ — Villa & vacation rental photography in Mérida
Can a Mérida real estate shoot include drone photos?
Only with AFAC special authorisation in the Centro Histórico, which lies inside the 9.2 km aerodrome buffer around Mérida's international airport under NOM-107-SCT3-2019. Properties in the northern suburbs or at haciendas outside that ring are simpler, flown by a Mexican-registered, insured operator.
What time of day is best for photographing a house in Mérida's Centro?
Mérida Centro houses are shot around midday for the interior patio, when the sun reaches the patio floor and the pool, and early or late for the street façade, when the narrow street is in even shade. A typical real estate session runs three hours to cover both.
Are twilight photos possible for a Mérida listing?
Yes, and they suit Mérida's Centro houses well, because lit patios and pools glow against a blue sky for a short window after sunset. The Mérida real estate session is then scheduled to finish at dusk, with interiors shot earlier in the afternoon.