Real Estate Virtual Tours

Real Estate Virtual Tours New York - Virtual tours are very popular in the real estate industry. Several types of such tours exist, including simple options such as interactive floor plans, and more sophisticated options such as full-service virtual tours.

An interactive floor plan shows photographs of a property with the aid of a floor plan and arrows to indicate where each photograph was taken. Clicking on arrows shows the user where the camera was and which way the camera was pointing. Full service virtual tours are usually created by a professional photographer who will visit the property being sold, take several photos, and run them through stitching software. Full service virtual tours are usually more expensive than interactive floor plans because of the expense of the photographer, higher-end equipment used, such as a digital SLR camera, and specialized software. Real estate virtual tours are typically linked to the listing in the Multiple Listing Service. On web sites such as Realtor.com, listings with linked virtual tours receive as much as 40% more views than those without virtual tours.

Slide Shows Disguised as Virtual Tours Over the past few years, slide shows have become somewhat blurred into being marketed and sold as "virtual tours." Slide shows will slide left and right. Zoom in and out. A virtual tour will allow a user to enter a home and click a mouse to pan up, down and all around and navigate to another hot spot arrow to move onto the next view. This is a true "virtual tour." More advanced forms of virtual tours will include Google maps with 3D radar hot spots on them. This includes custom floor plans which also feature spots, allowing users a wider freedom to explore homes, buildings and other locations around the world in new ways just by clicking their computer's mouse button. Slide shows, by their very nature simply lack these abilities and should never be confused or associated with the term: Virtual Tour.