What is LAANC and why does controlled airspace cost extra?

LAANC (Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability) provides near-instant FAA authorization for standard flights within published grid altitudes. But the airspace that matters most in commercial real estate is often not standard: surface-area zones and above-ceiling operations near major airports such as Harry Reid International require manual FAA authorization — a written risk assessment filed and manually reviewed by the FAA, a process that can take up to 90 days. The $95 airspace coordination fee covers that filing. This is precisely why hiring an experienced, licensed pilot matters.

What is the Matterport Pro3 LiDAR virtual tour?

The Matterport Pro3 is a professional LiDAR scanning instrument that creates a 3D digital twin of a commercial property accurate to within 20mm at a 10-meter range. Brokers and prospects can virtually walk through the space, measure dimensions remotely, and share immersive tours — eliminating unnecessary site visits.

How much does commercial real estate photography cost in Las Vegas?

Market rates for commercial real estate photography typically run $300 to $1,500 per shoot. CRE Visual Solutions packages start at $175 for the Bronze (Lease & Land) exterior set, $375 for Silver with full interiors, and $575 for Gold with a Matterport Pro3 LiDAR digital twin. Every package includes a property website, marketing flyers, and private client portal access at no additional charge.

Do you photograph lease listings and land parcels?

Yes — the Bronze (Lease & Land) package at $175 is built specifically for lease listings and land parcels: every shot listed under Exterior in the CREVS Asset-Based Photo Guide, delivered in 3 business days. A Land Video with parcel-boundary graphic overlays is available as a +$175 add-on on land properties.

CRE Visual Solutions | Commercial Real Estate Photography, Drone & Virtual Tours

Matterport Pro3 LiDAR

Walk the property
without leaving your desk.

The Matterport Pro3 creates a 3D digital twin of a commercial property accurate to within 20mm at a 10-meter range. Prospects measure dimensions remotely, brokers share interactive walkthroughs on Zoom, and site visits become optional — not mandatory.

Commercial Property · Matterport Pro3

3D Virtual Tour

Navigate freely through the space. Measure any dimension remotely. Share the tour link directly with prospects or embed in any listing.

Commercial Property · Matterport Pro3

3D Virtual Tour

LiDAR-accurate to within 20mm at a 10-meter range. Every room, every bay, every detail — captured in a navigable digital twin that works on any device.

Digital twin vs. a 360° camera. The Matterport Pro3 is a LiDAR scanning instrument — not a consumer camera stitching photos together. Every surface is dimensionally mapped, every measurement is verifiable, and every space is navigable in true 3D. Included in the Gold package.

The same digital-twin workflow is trusted far beyond listing marketing. On one four-year power-grid modernization, an electric utility eliminated 250+ site visits across 45 facilities using Matterport.

Beyond Marketing

General contractors: this camera was built for you, too.

The Pro3 is an AEC instrument, not a marketing gadget. Capture existing conditions before demo. Document the build before the walls close. Walk subs, owners, and stakeholders through the site remotely — instead of scheduling one more visit. And when questions surface months later, you hold a time-stamped visual record of exactly what was there. Under the hood: a Class 1 LiDAR sensor capturing 100,000 points per second — roughly 1.5 million measurements per sweep, each sweep under 20 seconds, in full sun or none.

E57 point-cloud export
High-density, vendor-neutral ASTM standard — imports into the tools you already run

Scan-to-BIM
LOD 200 BIM-ready files, plus a free Autodesk Revit plugin — no manual conversion

Autodesk & Procore integrations
The digital twin lives inside your existing design and construction workflow

Built for real sites
Indoors, outdoors, direct sunlight — up to 100m extended range in E57 capture

TI build-out, renovation, or pre-demo record — one visit, one digital twin, one dated source of truth.

Services & Pricing

Every asset class.
One licensed operation.

All packages include a property website with your personal contact form, marketing flyers for social media, and access to your private client portal — at no additional charge.

Lease listing and land photography starts at $175 — a complete professional exterior set, priced for the listings brokers actually run in volume.

Bronze

$175 · Lease & Land

3-Business-Day Delivery

Complete exterior photo set for your asset class
Every shot listed under “Exterior” in the Asset-Based Photo Guide
Built for lease listings and land parcels

Silver

$375

3-Business-Day Delivery

Everything in Bronze
Complete interior photo set for your asset class
Every shot listed under “Interior” in the Asset-Based Photo Guide

Most Requested

Gold

$575

3-Business-Day Delivery

Everything in Silver
Matterport Pro3 LiDAR digital twin
Accurate to ±20mm at 10m
No square-footage cap

Video Add-Ons

CRE Video Brochure™

+$375 with any package

Delivery Scoped Per Project

Your marketing PDF made cinematic
Full CGI overlay treatment
VPD traffic counts, POIs, streets
Parcel boundaries & property feature callouts

Land Video with Graphic Overlays

+$175 · Bronze land properties only

Delivery Scoped Per Project

Aerial video with parcel boundary outlines
Basic text overlays
Not the full CRE Video Brochure™

Anyone can fly a drone over a lot and upload footage. Without CGI overlays mapping parcel boundaries, points of interest, and surrounding site context, you're handing investors a video of dirt with no idea where the land begins and ends — or why it matters. Every CREVS land video defines exactly what they're looking at.

Add-Ons

FAA Airspace Coordination$95

After-Hours Shoot$195

Raw Video Files$145

The $95 Airspace Coordination fee covers a formal FAA filing process — not overhead. Every manual authorization requires the pilot to conduct a written risk assessment: identifying specific hazards at the location, documenting mitigations for each risk, and demonstrating a detailed situational awareness plan for the entire operation. That report is submitted directly to the FAA for manual review — a process that can take up to 90 days. Clients scheduling shoots near controlled airspace should plan accordingly. Timeline management is part of every engagement, and the conversation about lead time starts at booking. Raw Video Files ($145): a 360° drone orbit plus five additional clips with cinematic movement, delivered unedited.

Your Private Client Portal

One login. Every deliverable. Zero friction.

Log in to review, approve, and download your content. Handle booking, scheduling, invoicing, and payment in one place. Working with a team? Grant access to colleagues, receive delivery notifications, and delegate marketing tasks without a single email chain.

Deliverables ready for review and download within 3 business days

Integrated invoicing and payment — no separate systems

Team access and notification delegation built in

Your brand. Your portal. Your client experience.

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Asset-Based Photo Guide

Every shoot is structured by asset class. This is exactly what each package above buys — and every caption in the portfolio is one of these line items, executed.

Office

Exterior

Main Shot (1–2)
Secondary Shot (1–2)
Entrance
Parking
Context Perspectives N, S, E, W
Parcel 90° Look Down

Interior

Common Lobby
Common Lobby Elevators
Suite-Floor Elevators
Suite Lobby
Open Floor Plan / Cubicles
Conference Room
Executive Office
Standard Office
Kitchen / Break Room

Industrial

Exterior

Main Shot (1–2)
Secondary Shot (1–2)
Entrance
Loading Docks & Shipping Bays
Context Perspectives N, S, E, W
Parcel 90° Look Down

Interior

Suite Entrance & Reception
Open Floor Plan
Executive Office
Standard Office
Conference Rooms
Break Room
Loading Docks & Drive Up Bays
Electrical / Sprinkler / Racks / Cranes

Retail

Exterior

Main Shot (1–2)
Secondary Shot (1–2)
Storefront Entrance
Parking
Loading Docks & Shipping Bays
Context Perspectives N, S, E, W
Parcel 90° Look Down
Neighboring Tenants

Interior

Front of space looking in
Rear of space looking out
Customer Service Area
Break Room / Kitchen
Storage
Unique Space

Land

Exterior

Context Perspectives N, S, E, W
Ground Level Shots (up to 4)

Add-On Available

Land Video with Graphic Overlays (+$175)
Parcel boundary outlines
Basic text overlays

You should never need to pay for more than 25 photos. Five years in CoStar's Field Research Department — including serving as the architectural photographer for LoopNet and Apartments.com, and joining the Homes.com rollout toward the end of that tenure — across every asset class, in markets nationwide, made one thing clear: a property's marketing collateral only needs to answer the questions an investor, owner, or stakeholder actually has. These shot lists reflect exactly that. Every frame earns its place, or it doesn't make the set.

Why CREVS

Built for one market.
Operated to one standard.

CRE-Only Operations

Every capability — from the shot list to the delivery portal — was built for commercial real estate first. Outside event or specialty drone work is considered on a per-contract basis, separate from the CRE service line.

FAA Licensed. Federally Accountable.

Part 107 certified. 1,000+ flight hours. Every flight is filed, coordinated, and documented. The pilot is licensed, registered, and accountable.

As Frictionless as You Want It

Once we have a working relationship, CREVS is built to operate without friction. Scheduling, coordination, post-production, and delivery can happen without a single call, text, or email thread. Your content arrives in 3 business days while competitors are still coordinating with their vendors.

Matterport Pro3 LiDAR

Not a consumer camera stitching photos. A professional LiDAR instrument producing dimensional, navigable digital twins — accurate to within 20mm at a 10-meter range.

AI Cannot Replace This

AI is compressing the value of standard photography. It cannot replicate a licensed pilot, federal clearance, 1,000 hours of judgment, and a signed FAA authorization on file.

Complex Airspace Experience

Class B operations within 1 NM of Harry Reid International Airport runway thresholds. Direct on-site coordination with DHS field agents. Complexity is the baseline here.

The Math Brokers Don't Do

Think like a business owner.

The drone is the toy. Your time is the asset. Cool is a hobby. ROI is a business.

On a $2M industrial sale — 2.5% commission — your time is worth approximately $250 per hour. Doing your own photography and rendering takes 2–5 hours per property. That's $500–$1,250 in dead time to avoid a $175–$575 invoice.

Buying professional media isn't an expense. It's buying your time back — to close another deal. Or better yet, stop pulling an associate off productive work to take photos on their phone. Their time is worth more than a camera run.

$250/hr

Your time value

Based on $2M industrial sale at 2.5% commission

2–5 hrs

Per property lost

To shoot, render, and deliver it yourself

2 min

Ceiling measured remotely

Versus a 2-hour round trip to respond to a prospect

3×

Prospects, one walkthrough

One Matterport tour on a single Zoom call — urgency created

Field-Verified — ROI Commercial, Las Vegas

"A broker I work with at ROI Commercial called one day and said, 'Zach — I just saved a two-hour round trip because of you.' A prospect had asked about the ceiling height at the front of a 55,000-square-foot anchor retail listing — the drop-ceiling section near the entrance, offices, and customer-service area, which sat substantially lower than the main retail floor. He opened the Matterport tour on his phone, measured it in two minutes, and had an answer to his client in five. No drive. No disruption. Done." — Zach Mirer, CRE Visual Solutions

Production & Videography

Eight years working professionally
in film and television.

Film and television production work alongside a decade of commercial real estate field work is the combination that makes the CRE Video Brochure™ possible — and that makes it look the way it does.

Eight years working professionally in film and television — behind and in front of the camera, across commercial and narrative formats — alongside five years of commercial real estate field work informs the cinematic standard of every CREVS deliverable. This is not a photography operation that added video. It is a production background applied purposefully to commercial real estate.

Commercial · Spec Ad

AREA 15 — LinkedIn Paid Ad Spec

Commercial · Website Banner

General Contractor — Website Banner

Cinematic · Real Estate

Luxury Firewater Home — Cinematic Production

Corporate · Talking Head

CEO — On-Camera Corporate Production (English)

Cinematic · Real Estate

Infinity Pool Water Home — Cinematic Production

Cinematic · Real Estate

The Mansion Beverly — Cinematic Production

Hospitality · Grand Opening Featurette

World Famous Nüsr-Et Grand Opening — Lighting & Production

Cinematic · Real Estate

Mountain's Edge — Cinematic Production

Commercial · Social Media Spec

General Contractor — Social Media Ad

Corporate · Talking Head

Residential Broker — Brokerage Bio Video

CREVS launching drone operation on the Las Vegas Strip — Grand Bazaar Shoppes, Caesars Palace backdrop

1,000+

Flight Hours

Drone Expertise & Compliance

10+ years.
1,000+ hours.

Class B airspace corridor at Harry Reid International — one of the most controlled airspace environments in the Southwest. Direct on-site coordination with DHS field agents in the Las Vegas Valley.

Twilight aerial shoot AREA 15 Las Vegas — FAA Part 107 drone photography

Context perspective Las Vegas Boulevard — commercial real estate drone aerial

Industrial parcel 90-degree aerial look down — CRE drone photography

Context perspective downtown Las Vegas — aerial commercial real estate photography

Team Branding — Las Vegas Strip Airspace Operation

Documented Operation Commercial real estate drone operation flown within one nautical mile of Harry Reid International Airport runways 1L and 1R — Class B airspace, Las Vegas Strip skyline in background

Commercial real estate drone operation flown within one nautical mile of Harry Reid International Airport runways 1L and 1R — Class B airspace, Las Vegas Strip skyline in background

Field Documentation

One nautical mile from the runways at Harry Reid International.

This is a frame from an actual commercial real estate shoot — flown within one nautical mile of runways 1L/1R at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), inside Class B airspace, under proper FAA authorization. The Strip skyline sits behind it. The active airfield is in the frame.

Most operators will not fly airspace like this. The ones who do it without authorization are how firms end up named in federal files. This is what the credential buys: the shot gets captured — legally — in airspace others decline.

Part 107 & Remote ID

What Part 107 means — in practice.

Every CREVS flight is operated by a licensed pilot with a registered aircraft on file with the FAA. That registration ties the drone to an accountable operator — one who can be cross-referenced, contacted, and held responsible. That accountability chain exists before the drone leaves the ground.

An unlicensed drone broadcasts nothing traceable. No registered serial. No accountable operator. No one knows who is flying it — until something goes wrong.

LAANC — the FAA's automated clearance system — returns authorization in near real time for standard flights within published grid altitudes. That covers routine work. But the airspace that matters most in commercial real estate rarely is routine. Surface-area zones and above-ceiling operations near major airports require manual FAA authorization — not an instant app approval. That means a written justification: the pilot documents what risks are present, what mitigations are in place, and how situational awareness will be maintained throughout the operation.

That report is filed with the FAA and retained on record. The $95 airspace coordination fee covers that process — it is not overhead, it is the filing.

Routine flights clear quickly. But shoots requiring manual authorization near complex airspace can take significantly longer — up to 90 days in the FAA's review queue. The lead-time conversation starts at booking, so timing is never a surprise.

Contact directly to manage time expectations →

Compliance & Risk

The liability question starts
with who hired it.

Every unlicensed drone operating over your listing is an unregistered aircraft with no broadcast signal, no filed plan, and no accountable operator. If it clips a light pole in a tenant's parking lot and lands on someone loading their trunk — and it has happened — the liability question starts with who hired it.

$75,000 Civil penalty per violation — FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024

Per violation. Not per flight. A single flight generating multiple violations carries a separate penalty for each.

Criminal exposure under 49 U.S.C. § 46306: up to $250,000 and federal prosecution. The FAA's own incident database documents drone events involving lacerations, loss of consciousness, and hospitalization. These are not hypotheticals. They are public record.

The hiring party. Federal law places the burden of pilot verification on the hiring party. The FAA does not recognize ignorance as a defense. Macklowe Properties — a prominent New York real estate firm — received an FAA administrative subpoena requiring them to produce every business record, contract, and payment tied to drone footage shot over a listing by unlicensed operator Skypan International. They were not fined — but their name entered the federal record, and they spent time and legal fees in federal discovery. That is not a hypothetical. It is a case number.

An unlicensed operator

No registered serial number. No Remote ID broadcast. No filed flight plan. No insurance. Liability coverage is unavailable to unlicensed pilots regardless of what they tell you. If something goes wrong over your listing, your general liability policy almost certainly excludes it. You are exposed.

A CREVS operation

Licensed pilot. Filed plan. Written risk mitigation report on record with the FAA. UAS liability insurance. Every flight is known, cleared, and logged before “wheels up.”

In a litigious world, the difference between those two sentences is the difference between a vendor your brokerage can stand behind — and one you cannot explain to risk management.

Part 107 certification is not a formality. It is the line between a defensible engagement and a federal enforcement file with your firm's name in it. When the FAA opens an investigation, it does not start with the pilot — it starts with the records, the contracts, and the party that hired the flight. Verify the certificate. Or hire someone who makes verification a non-issue.

Not a
Photographer.

The work.

Walk the property
without leaving your desk.

General contractors: this camera was built for you, too.

Your marketing PDF.
Turned cinematic.