Real Estate Virtual Tours in South Florida - The New Normal
The real estate market has significantly changed since the Covid-19 outburst rocked the world. The real estate sector saw some major changes in the way the business works. One of the major changes that we’ve seen is the emergence of virtual tours of real estate property. This trend was reflected in the sunshine state as real estate virtual tours in South Florida became a norm. This came as a blessing for real estate developers as it became an effective way of selling real estate amidst a business slowdown. But it was not just real estate developers who benefitted from virtual tours. Buyers and sellers of real estate also took advantage of this technological leap as this was the safest way they could buy or sell a home. Virtual tours were also recommended by the National Association of Realtors as a way to continue buying and selling homes while avoiding face-to-face contact amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
For those who’re wondering what is a real estate virtual tour, it is a simulation of a property that’s used to give potential buyers a remote, video-based walk-through of the property that gives them the sense that they're almost actually visiting the property. Virtual tours use a combination of Virtual Reality (VR) technology and sophisticated video cameras to create interactive tours of a property.
There are several types of virtual tours used in real estate, ranging from basic ones such as interactive floor plans to sophisticated ones such as full-service virtual tours. Interactive floor plans contain photographs of a house that can be opened with the help of a floor plan consisting of arrows that indicate the place each photograph was taken. When you click on an arrow, it shows you the position of the camera was and the direction the camera was pointing at. On the other hand, full-service virtual tours are generally created by professional videographers and these comprise a full VR tour of the house. They use professional equipment, specialized software, and staging tools to produce creative virtual tours of a property that can make the property look good to potential buyers.
The concept of virtual tours had been gaining a lot of momentum long before this pandemic. A survey by the National Association of Realtors found that 44% of clients search for properties on the internet first. That’s not it, another survey shows that 77% of Americans said that they would like to be able to take VR house tours before actually going to visit prospective homes. Evidently, virtual tours are going to be the new normal in the real estate industry.
Virtual tours are extremely beneficial to all parties involved in a real estate transaction - home buyer, home seller, and the real estate agent facilitating the transaction. Now, people who want to sell their houses and real estate agents can use VR to showcase their properties in a better and more creative way. Potential buyers, on the other hand, can use virtual tours to explore every single room, corner, and detail of a house with just a few mouse clicks, thus saving a lot of time used to actually visit each property.
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