{"id":440397,"date":"2025-12-11T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440397\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:44:11","slug":"heres-why-you-might-see-photos-of-deer-in-maine-real-estate-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440397\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why you might see photos of deer in Maine real estate listings"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

When Steve Resendes and his wife were compiling photos to include in the listing for their 2,070-square-foot vacation home on Verona Island, they added two pictures of deer in their yard among shots of the interior and exterior of the house. <\/p>\n

Resendes hoped the photos would appeal to fellow animal lovers and paint a picture of the 8-acre property the waterfront home sits on<\/a>, as the area is overpopulated with deer and frequented by other wildlife, including turkeys and bald eagles, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cPart of what attracted us to that area was the abundance of wildlife,\u201d said Resendes, who lives in Massachusetts. \u201cI think when you\u2019re thinking about the Maine experience, you think about a cabin in the woods with wildlife nearby.\u201d <\/p>\n

Resendes is among many sellers and real estate agents who include photos\u00a0of wild animals \u2014 either from a game camera or photos the sellers captured \u2014 in\u00a0current online property listings. The practice is one method sellers use to make their Maine homes stand out and attract buyers who may come from urban areas and are looking for a more rural place to call home. <\/p>\n

Shots of wildlife can be found in a wide variety of properties for sale across the state. Some property listings, like this $225,000 hunting camp in Skowhegan<\/a>, show game camera footage of deer and a bobcat just outside the door. <\/p>\n

Other homes, such as this 10,600-square-foot Cape Elizabeth home<\/a>\u00a0on the market for nearly $4 million, features a picture of a doe spotted on the land among the photos of the home\u2019s ornate interior. <\/p>\n

Like frontage on a body of water or immediate access to snowmobile trails, having wildlife nearby and the photos to prove it can make a home a \u201clifestyle property,\u201d according to Matthew Pouliot, broker and owner of Augusta-based Pouliot Real Estate. <\/p>\n

Some people relocate to Maine because they want plenty of land and access to the wildlife that come with it.<\/p>\n

Wildlife can appeal to animal lovers like Resendes who simply enjoy watching them roam through their yard. But photos of deer, moose, turkey or other game also can entice avid hunters who might like the idea of not needing to go far to access a good hunting spot, Pouliot said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMaine is very unique in that we have open-access land, so if land is not posted or marked otherwise, it\u2019s legal to hunt on that land,\u201d Pouliot\u00a0said. \u201cA lot of the time, people are looking to buy properties so that they can hunt and fish on them.\u201d <\/p>\n

Real estate agents also are somewhat limited in what pictures they can include in property listings as they should only show what\u2019s on property itself and what amenities it offers. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s a beach down the road, we generally don\u2019t go down the road and take a picture of the beach because that\u2019s not on the property and could be misleading,\u201d Pouliot\u00a0said. \u201cBut, if there\u2019s active sightings of wildlife on the property, we want people to know that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Steve Resendes and his wife were compiling photos to include in the listing for their 2,070-square-foot vacation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,22672,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-440397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-surprise","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115701708414711110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}