Do Virtual Tours Help Sell Houses Quicker?
With all the different options available when marketing your home, do virtual tours help to sell houses quicker than other, more traditional options? The answer is simple:
Today over?80%?of people looking to buy a home are searching online and there is no better way to digitally showcase your property than a 3D virtual tour.
What is a 3D virtual Tour?
3D virtual tours allow you to explore a house, apartment or home in a full?360-degree view,?across a range of devices such as a smartphone, laptop or tablet. The best 3D virtual tours are also interactive, allowing you to click through from room to room, giving a true sense of how a property connects together. Some even feature interactive data-points that contain extra pieces of information that are not immediately visible such as highlighting key features of the property. Many 3D virtual tours are now VR compatible, creating an unrivalled and immersive view of a property that is second only to visiting in real life.
So how does a 3D virtual tour help sell a house?
By allowing a potential home buyer the opportunity to digitally “walk” through a home at their leisure, 3D virtual tours showcase a property in a more cohesive way than just photographs alone. It allows a potential home buyer to gain?real insight?into the “flow” of a building and how each room connects to the previous.
Properties featured with 3D virtual tours get 95% more phone inquiries
Through giving potential home buyers the option to spend time exploring a property, 3D virtual tours drive high levels of online engagement, especially when used on property portals such as Rightmove or Zoopla. With each passing second a buyer is spending looking at your property and not others, the more likely they are to make an inquiry.
How do I create a 3D virtual tour of my home?
Today there are a number of ways you can order a 3D Virtual Tour:
Create it yourself –
There are many relatively cheap & user friendly 360 cameras available today that can be used to capture the interiors of your home. Often these will be of a lower quality resolution & will lack the interactive functionality of professional equipment, but will still offer a better and more interactive view of a property, than still photography alone.
Hire a professional –
Advances in 3D scanning camera technology mean that what was once an exclusive option for those with the largest of budgets, is now available for a relatively affordable price. Using a professional will often guarantee a better end product but it is always wise to look over their portfolio of work and to shop around to ensure you are getting the best deal.