How Virtual Reality Home Tours Are Changing The Future
The search for a new home generally begins online. Real estate agents needed to make their homes more appealing than the hundreds of other listings in the same area. By providing a high-quality real estate video tour it can help both the buyers and sellers.
What is a Real Estate Video Tour?
New technology like real estate video tours are giving potential buyers a real sense of the property they’re viewing. To create a cutting-edge real estate video tour, numerous photos and videos of a property are stitched together to create a 360-degree experience. Tour takers are able to “walk” through a property and see every angle while sometimes even including a floor plan as well. The tours can be taken on multiple devices such as a personal computer or smartphone.
How are Video Tours Valuable for Buyers?
For a buyer, a video tour is almost like being inside a home which gives a buyer a better sense of a property’s layout, size, and lighting than normal photographs would. Real estate video tours can allow buyers to view multiple homes quickly, helping them to narrow their searches without having to visit as many properties in person. Real estate video tours can be especially valuable for out of town buyers without all the hassle of traveling.
How are Video Tours Valuable for Sellers?
For a seller, real estate video tours can get their listings more views, and get more buyers to see their homes with less inconvenience. Realtor.com reports its listings with virtual tours receive 87 percent more views than listings without and 51 percent of website visitors won’t look at listings without virtual tours. By giving potential buyers an opportunity to preview a property, only serious buyers are likely to schedule an in-person visit, lessening the foot traffic for sellers.
How Can Real Estate Agents Create Virtual Tours?
Real estate agents can take their own photos and video of the home then upload to websites like YouVisit, through its Tour Builder platform, or contract with a virtual tour company to have a virtual tour made professionally. Real estate video tours ultimately open up properties to more buyers in less time and allows sellers to increase the visibility of their home to more buyers
*Courtesy of youvisit.com
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