Tuesday, October 16, 2007

One Realtor's View of Virtual Tours

One of my clients recently wrote this note.

Anyone who is in the real estate market will tell you that the market has gone down hill tremendously and it doesn’t look like it going to come back for a while. Fortunately for me, I stumbled across a company called Dream House Photography. It is a virtual tour company that is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that helped me improve my business, as well as decreased the time my listings are on the market. Dream House Photography came into a house that I had just listed and took high resolution still shots together with a 360° virtual tour. Dream House Photography did all the work. The married couple who run Dream House Photography, Keith and Terry Frank are very professional and do an amazing job. Dream House Photography has the ability to take a house that at first appears unmarketable and turns it into something that prospective buyers want to schedule a viewing. By using Dream House Photography, I have cut my time shuttling clients to and from homes because they are able to view the virtual tours online thus saving time as they have already viewed the home once. This means they are interested in the house and have called me to view the home for a second time. In reality, they have viewed the home once online and once in person and that means they are interested and the chances of selling increase more than doubled. Dream House Photography has saved me both time and money. I thought that virtual photography would be expensive, but I was pleasantly surprised. Dream House Photography was not only reasonable, it was the best deal around; they don’t charge extra if you lower the selling price and need to change the listing price online. I had worked previously with another virtual tour company and was charged for any changes I made. I highly recommend Dream House Photography to any real estate agent in the Tidewater and Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Dream House Photography has photographed homes I’ve listed in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Suffolk, Chesapeake and even Newport News. If you need a virtual tour, check out Dream House Photography at http://dreamhousephotography.com
I promised you will happy you did!

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Virtual Tours Increase Internet Hits

I want to take the time to thank Real Tour Vision for the quick and easy sale of my home in the Virginia Beach, section of the Tidewater and Hampton Roads area. While buying my new home I discovered 360 degree photos and virtual tours and wondered how they made it. After, researching several companies over the internet I discovered Real Tour Vision. Being a retired Navy man, the president of the company called me. From there I entered into business with Real Tour Vision as a Full Service Dealer. From there, Dream House Photography was born.

With the training I received, I practiced on my own home that was for sale. Immediately we noticed that internet hits on the local MLS service and several other property listing web sites had almost quadrupled. The sites were now being hit by a 389% increase in traffic in just one month. We believe due to buyer interest that wanted to see much more of the property before they waste their time going to look at dozens of homes. Now we no longer got the prospective buyers that came and then just left. Now we were getting prospective buyers that were truly interested in my home. They had seen it before on the internet with the advanced technology only offered through Real Tour Vision. Fact of the matter is, even with the real estate market was on the downhill slide, we had three prospective buyers to contemplate. We did it! We sold the house within a month from the virtual tour hitting the internet. And GET THIS we got our ASKING PRICE with a minimal amount of closing cost to cover.

For this I have to thank Real Tour Vision both for my newly founded business and for the quick SALE of my old home that allowed Terry and I to purchase our new beautiful home setting on 325 feet of beautiful lakefront property.

Now if you’re a home owner that wants to sell, demand a virtual tour from your real estate agent. If you’re an agent and want to make it to the top of the million dollar charts hire yourself a Real Tour Vision Full Service Dealer that can give a truly professional marketing rocket. If you’re in the Hampton Roads area give Dream House Photography a call at 757-831-0829 or visit our web site at http://dreamhousephotography.com and rock the real estate world with your fast sales.