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Our Real Estate Services
Increase your listings and sell homes faster with First Impression 360° Virtual Tours and Photography. It's like having an Open House 24 hours a day 7 days a week, but without the stress and hassle.
Using First Impression Virtual Tours will help you sell faster because 9 out of 10 homebuyers use the Internet when searching for a home, and properties with virtual tours and high quality photos receive more views than those without. And with the increasing amount of buyers coming from off the Coast, this marketing advantage will benefit everyone.
By featuring virtual tours, you're reassuring your seller that you are doing everything in your power to market their home with the best tools available. High quality photography and Virtual Tours save you and your clients time and money. You and your agency look good, the buyer and seller are impressed, and the home sells faster.
First Impression Virtual Tours uses software that seamlessly stitches digital photographs to create a 360° moving image. This allows your clients to experience every room of the house in their own time, without the pressure of you being there. Hot Spot buttons can be clicked to show how one room unfolds into the next, as if you were walking through it. Information is at the buyer's fingertips: Descriptive text, Realtor photo, contact information, MLS information, background music, crystal clear images, map, town and school links all add to the experience that will evoke that emotional connection.
We understand that not every home is suited for a virtual tour. That’s why we also offer a still image slide show. You still get all the great benefits of the tour window buttons, background music and links plus 15 high quality images.
Realtor benefits
- Virtual tours have become one of the most important tools for selling a house. Home buyers consider the addition of property photos to an online listing to be very important. The average online listing with a virtual tour receives many more views than listings without tours.
- Virtual tours are like having a 24x7 open house - available online without agents or the home seller having to show the property. It's a tool to help you and consumers pre-qualify properties, saving everyone time.
- The average virtual tour on REALTOR.com® receives an average of 13 hits per day and each scene gets four views per day. (Summary Tour Traffic Report, Internal logs. Nov 2001)
- Internet homebuyers are more educated and invest significant time investigating the housing market and financing options before contacting a Realtor. Internet buyers spend nearly three times as much time investigating real estate markets before contacting a Realtor than traditional homebuyers. By the time Internet buyers contact an agent, they have a good understanding of what they want, where they want to live and what they can afford. (2001 CAR study)
- Internet buyers spend 4.6 weeks investigating homes and neighbourhoods before contacting a Realtor as opposed to 1.9 weeks for traditional homebuyers. (2001 CAR Study)
- Most Internet homebuyers (89%) use the Internet in the home buying process before they start to look for a specific home.
- Internet homebuyers start using the Internet very early in the home buying process and before selecting a real estate agent.
- Since Internet buyers typically have a good understanding of what they want, where they want to live, and what they can afford, they tend to look at fewer homes and buy faster.
- Traditional homebuyers spent over three times as much time looking for a home with a real estate agent than Internet buyers do (6.44 weeks versus 2.10 weeks)
- Traditional homebuyers look at nearly twice (15.08) as many homes with a real estate agent prior to purchase as Internet buyers (7.93). (2001 CAR Study)
- By the time Internet buyers contact a real estate agent they have often:
- Chosen the neighbourhood they want to evaluate
- Narrowed their choice of homes
- Come up with a list of homes they want to see
- Understood what they can afford and what their mortgage options are
- 78% of Internet homebuyers found their Realtor on the Internet. By the contrast, most traditional buyers find their real estate agent as a result of farming, referrals, advertising or sign calls and 23% of Internet homebuyers found the type of house they wanted on the Internet. (2001 CAR study)
- Additionally, Internet homebuyers act quickly and purchase a home in less time than do traditional buyer. (2001 CAR Study)
- Nearly all Internet homebuyers (96%) are very likely to use the Internet the next time they purchase a home. (2001 CAR Study)
- Internet homebuyers on average purchased a more expensive home than traditional homebuyers. (2001 CAR Study)
* You'll notice the dates on these studies are from quite a few years ago. Those numbers have only increased.
Don't wait any longer, order your tours today!
Home Buyer Benefits
Searching for the right home can be time consuming, costly and stressful. Countless hours can be spent looking at properties and driving around to open houses. Virtual Tours through First Impression Virtual Tours can now eliminate those hassles.
The Internet is becoming a major factor in searching the majority of homes listed for sale. Rather than merely viewing a small exterior photo and a plain text description, our tours allow you to see full colour 360º views of properties, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
First Impression Virtual Tours enables you to make a qualified decision efficiently and conveniently.
- Now you can preview homes in advance and save time by going to only properties that meet your specifications.
- First Impression Virtual Tours are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
- Virtual tours can be taken from anywhere with Internet access.
- Navigate images without installations, plug-ins or downloads.
- You can literally show the home you are thinking of buying to family and friends before you make a buying decision.
- Use a Virtual Tour to look inside your future home when access to the property is limited.
- Virtual Tours can be utilized to visualize room sizes and decorating schemes!
Home Seller Benefits
Selling your home can be costly and time consuming. Traditional advertising such as newspaper ads, brochures, and open houses have a limited reach. These traditional forms of marketing don't give homebuyers a feel for what your home actually looks like.
The Internet is now being used to extend the marketing of your home. Online listing information is still typically limited to a photo, an exterior shot and a description of the property. This information does not effectively narrow your audience to interested buyers. Home sellers will still have to spend time and money hosting unqualified prospects in your home.
As of recent, realtors in Canada are now using 360° Virtual Tours. This provides their sellers' homes with an enormous additional audience. Now buyers from all area of Canada and beyond can view your home. This online service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from wherever they are. This means you sell your home faster and will also save you time and money!
- Reach more homebuyers with virtual tours than any other comparable product or service on the Internet.
- With a First Impression Virtual Tour you can avoid the hassles of having strangers tour your home, unless they have seen your home and know they are qualified.
- You can advertise your home through the real estate sections of leading Internet sites in addition to the links provided through First Impression Virtual Tours.
- Email your home tour to prospects anywhere around the world.
- Offer people the chance to take a virtual tour from anywhere with Internet access - their home, office or from any remote location.
- There is no cost for potential consumers to view you home on the Internet.
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