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7 Great Reasons To Use Virtual Home Tours To Sell Properties

7 Great Reasons To Use Virtual Home Tours To Sell Properties
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As a realtor, It’s high time to make use of virtual tours in the real estate industry.

Your targeted customers are those who have enough money to invest but not enough time for in-person visits to several realtors.

With virtual home tours, you can get them.

Because they can inspect your offered house as if they were actually checking them out in person.

So adding virtual home tours on your listing site is the wisest time & money-saving action that you can take now to sell your properties.

In this guide, I have gathered some of the most irresistible benefits you will get from adding virtual tours.

So, Let’s get started.

Why Use Virtual Home Tours When Selling Houses?

As I’ve mentioned earlier, virtual home tours are the latest and the most credible way to promote your homes for sale.

Now let’s look into some of the benefits of virtual tours you can get as a realtor.

 1. Krijg meer potentiële kopers

Potential Buyers Will Prefer Using Virtual Home Tours

The only visual your customers before visiting are the photos you put up on your site.

Once they visit, if it doesn’t meet their expectations, they reject the offer in most cases.

Dit is een duidelijke indicatie dat de interesse van mensen vooral afhangt van de verwachtingen die je in hun hoofd kunt wekken over de woning voordat ze ervoor kiezen om te bezoeken.

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If you include a virtual home tour, the person viewing will be able to experience a realistic tour of the house while sitting at home.

They’ll be able to get a complete visual of how the house will look when they actually visit in person.

Now this will give you 3 major advantages:

  • The person will stay longer on your site when exploring the virtual tour. Hence he/she will get more time to choose on your site and probably, eventually, get interested. The fact is the more you spend time, the more attractive it gets.
  • People calling with any inquiry will have a good tour around the house. Hence, they calling means they are probably highly interested, and the house satisfies their requirements. Now, giving them further details will be worthwhile.
  • Since you have a virtual tour, anyone asking to take a visit is probably interested in buying the house and you will have a higher chance of closing the deal. This is because the viewer will be able to get a good visual of the house and his/her expectations will match when he/she actually visits. Thus increasing the chance of buying.

And this is how virtual home tours can make a big difference and will certainly increase potential buyers.

If you include a virtual home tour, the person viewing will be able to experience a realistic tour of the house while sitting at home.

They’ll be able to get a complete visual of how the house will look when they actually visit in person.

2. You can Provide Spatial Dimension of Your Home :

If you put only photographs, You must need to know that comes up with some limitations such as:

  • Inability to fully demonstrate the transition and flow from one room to another.
  • Incapability to present every angle and perspective of a room.
  • Difficulty in assessing whether furniture will fit a space based solely on photos.
  • Lack of detailed information about the home’s amenities.

And with virtual home tours, buyers to feel as if they are physically present in the property. They can control the tour and explore the flow, spatial context, and size.

3. Customers Can Select What to View on a Virtual Tour :

With photos and videos, Your site represents what you want to portray. Not what your customer wants to see.

But on a virtual tour, Your customers can control what they want to see. Buying a new home is as much an emotional decision as it is a financial one. Your customers what to take time while inspecting your house.

This freedom of choosing and exploring at their own desire will definitely get you more buyers

4. Focus On Closing Deals While The Homes Sell Themselves 

Home verkoopt zichzelf
A virtual home tour will increase your closing rate.

Virtual Tours of Homes for sale can save you a lot of time and effort and will let you focus more on increasing your business revenue.

Now that you know that the person you will be dealing with already got a virtual tour, you can focus on closing deals, go for negotiations, and give extra details about the house, such as its history or neighborhood. 

You do not need to spend hours over the phone trying to convince people with details about the house itself.

The homes are selling themselves through virtual tours. People calling has developed a genuine interest.

All you need to do now is set up a visit and work on closing the deal.

The moment a customer steps foot in the house, he/she will know that this is exactly what they experienced in the virtual tour and exactly what he/she visualized about the home that got them interested in the first place.

Daarom heb je een betere kans om deals te sluiten.

3. Vervolgreactie verhogen

Verhoogde opvolgingsreactie

As a realtor, you are always busy speaking with clients who are interested to buy homes.

You probably get people leaving messages on your site about inquiries or through e-mails.

And sometimes you get calls, while you are trying to close a deal, which you can’t answer and they leave voicemails.

All of these are hard to follow up on.

You need to list them and then get back to them, hoping that they are still interested.

And more often, people don’t respond to your attempt to follow up with them unless they are really interested. 

Dit betekent dat u niet weet hoeveel belangstelling een persoon heeft wanneer hij of zij het onderzoek doet, hoewel het duidelijk is dat hij of zij bereid is vroeg of laat een huis te kopen.

Having virtual home tours can make a big difference when selling properties.

You can be sure that the people inquiring, after taking a virtual tour, are probably interested to a great extent since they saw exactly what they will get, and probably that’s what they were looking for.

Hence, you will get a better response when you reach back.

4. Helpt bij het nemen van een beslissing 

Neem een geïnformeerde beslissing

Even though you put well-crafted details on your sites, your potential customers will not be sure what they want and will probably visit several homes before making a decision.

But if you use virtual tours, your buyers will be able to get a detailed view of the house; a realistic visual which he/she will not get from other property listing sites.

So, that prospect might develop an instant interest and probably stop looking elsewhere.

5. Gemakkelijker om uw bedrijf en website te promoten

Bevorderen van zakendoen Gemakkelijk

Since virtual tours are still pretty new, a lot of realtors are yet to make proper use of them.

If you choose to use virtual tours on your site, you will be taking one step ahead of the lot.

You will have a strong marketing value point, that you offer virtual home tours to visitors.

People will be able to make an informed decision when using your site.

You will be able to stand out in the industry since people will find you more reliable.

Creating Virtual Home Tours Are More Affordable And Easy Than You Think

Well, You must be thinking creating virtual video tours will require you to hire an expensive video crew or production house.

Creating a 3D model dollhouse requires you to hire experts in that field.

No, You don’t need to.

Virtual tours have a new meaning now.

Now there are several real estate virtual tour creator tools out there that will allow you to create virtual tours on your own, without the need of hiring an expert, and at a reasonably low cost.

You can give “WPVR” a try. The user interface is very easy and will make it super easy for you to create virtual home tours when selling properties.

WP VR – Quality Virtual Tour Creator for WordPress 

Use WP VR to create virtual home tours and sell properties easily.

Using WPVR, all you need is to take 360 panoramic images of all the rooms in a home, and some from outside the house, and upload them to the plugin.

If you have any specific information to provide, let’s say the history of the design of the fireplace, you can set a small icon to click on, to view that information.

Not only that, you can add an explainer video on your virtual tour.

You can also add a virtual floor plan on your virtual tour using WPVR. Also, with WPVR you can publish your tour anywhere, anytime. And share with people with a QR code.

You will not need any assistance from experts, you will be able to create the tour on your own, and that too in a very short amount of time.

For your busy customers, you can add a direct CTA button link with your virtual home tour.

Conclusie

As you can see, virtual tours are very useful and innovative.

You can definitely find more interested customers than usual and will have a greater conversion than what you have without virtual tours.

Plus, they are cost-effective and easy to create If you choose the right tool like WPVR.

So, include virtual home tours on your website, you will surely get more business and go ahead of other realtors in your area.

**U kunt ook deze complete gids bekijken over hoe u een virtuele tour kunt maken om diepgaande kennis te krijgen van alle benodigde tools en activiteiten die nodig zijn voor het maken van een virtuele tour (d.w.z. van het maken van foto's tot het gebruik van virtuele tours).

Omarm daarom zo snel mogelijk virtuele tours en u zult er ongetwijfeld van profiteren.  

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C Sultan

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C Sultan

Een professional in digitale marketing met een passie voor WordPress. Houdt van discussies over marketingtactieken en geavanceerde bedrijfsstrategieën. Volg hem op twitter @SultanRoyal1

10 commentaren

  • april
    april

    Het internet is al de katalysator geworden voor het onderdompelen van interactie en e-commerce voor enorme hoeveelheden informatie. Dit is een geweldig platform dat mogelijkheden kan bieden voor makelaars in onroerend goed. Virtual Reality is de sleutel om meer potentiële kopers te verzamelen. Virtual Reality maakt alles beter en geeft u een uitzonderlijke virtuele rondleiding.

  • Afton Jackson

    It is good that you discussed briefly using websites to sell properties. My cousin aspires to be a realtor one day. This can be a good marketing tactic for him.

  • Cederic
    Cederic

    Dit is echt een geweldig artikel. Ongeveer 50% van de kopers waardeert virtuele tours als onderdeel van hun online jachtervaring thuis. Persoonlijk heb ik geweldige resultaten gehad met Ricoh.

    • Kevin
      Kevin

      Hetzelfde geldt voor Ricoh Tours. Supergemakkelijk en het kost me ongeveer 30 minuten om te creëren met mijn mobiele telefoon.

      • C Sultan

        Ja, Ricoh is er altijd al geweest, maar om een of andere reden hebben de mensen het niet op grote schaal in hun voordeel gebruikt.

  • Faylinn

    It really helped me when you said that the person looking at your home through a virtual tour can stay longer on the site and will probably be more interested since they have spent a lot of time looking at it. My husband’s sister recently got a new job in a different state and she has been trying to sell her home, to which I told her she should get help from a photographer. She mentioned that she has been looking at options, so I am trying to help her to finally finish the process.

    • C Sultan

      Nou, virtuele tours kunnen een groot verschil maken als het gaat om eigendommen. Veel geluk voor je zus.

  • Maria ten Hoeve

    Interessant, dat virtual reality een rol kan spelen bij huizentours als mensen hun woning willen verkopen. Ik kan me voorstellen dat het een aanvulling is op een echte tour door het huis. In de coronatijd en lockdown zou het wel erg handig kunnen zijn, als mensen eerst virtueel een tour zouden kunnen doen en daarna beslissen of ze ermee door willen gaan!

    • C Sultan

      Je hebt helemaal gelijk. We verwachten dat dit zeer binnenkort een trend zal worden onder makelaars.

      You are absolutely right. We are expecting this to become a trend among realtors very soon.

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