It’s no doubt that the real estate industry is stepping up its game. As time goes by, the competition gets tougher as the market becomes more and more saturated with real estate investors looking to buy and sell more and more properties.
Advertising homes and properties online begins with captivating your audience – arousing their attention before they physically visit the property.
These days, 90% of homebuyers search online before anywhere else. Online listings are now an essential part in the process of buying and selling homes.
Who can blame them?
When you invest in something that’s so big and life-changing, you don’t want it to be anything short of amazing, right? It has to be worth it.
Investors need to keep up, or better yet, exceed the expectations of the buyers in order to close the deal and land that sale.
You probably already know this: Buyers want to see high-resolution pictures on your online advertisement. Pictures of homes sell much better than text/words. They will also want to see floor plans. That way they can get an initial view of what the house looks like.
Another online feature homebuyers appreciate is to have a virtual tour of the home. Virtual tours, coupled with great pictures and floor plans, save time for both buyers and investors (sellers).
Only those who are truly interested in the home push through with the process. With competitors everywhere, it is crucial to make your listing stand out in the sea of properties.
And no, you don’t need fancy camera equipment or thousands of dollars to keep up with the latest technology.
All Your Sales Media on 1 Website
InsideMaps can supply all the tools you need to make your house attractive to internet-searching home buyers. It’s an affordable yet high-quality, user-friendly solution that can be used by professional photographers, real estate agents and investors alike.
The good news is that InsideMaps makes use of tools you already have. No need for DSLR cameras and other expensive equipment.
All you need is an iPhone 6, 6s, or 7 along with a propriety InsideMaps Hero rotor device that allows precision rotation and image collection of 360-degree panoramas.
InsideMaps offer a 3D tour, photo gallery and a downloadable schematic floor plan complete with room labels and sizes – all a real estate investor needs to sell their property.
They also have other features available at an additional cost such as a 3D, CADD-ready model. This allows you to customize… change colors, add furniture and can include other materials.
InsideMaps gives you an avenue to extract, display and print high-resolution images from the scans you made within the 3D tour and incorporate them in the photo gallery.
For a mere $20 for each home, InsideMaps is a great tool for photography since it automatically allows vertical correction, color balance and sharpness for aesthetically pleasing photos, basically eliminating the need to hire a photographer or photo editor.
Check out more in this helpful video.
Pro Photographers May Be Obsolete
InsideMaps creates an avenue for investors to showcase and visualize their properties in the most effective way possible through:
Interactive virtual tours: InsideMaps believes that visual content drives engagements. Buyers are more interested in pages with colorful pictures and videos. With 3D tour videos on each property you’re selling, you will likely have interested home buyers staying on your website much longer than they normally would.
3D models: It’s a floor plan but better. InsideMap’s 3D Model gives your floor plan a beautiful twist by making it an exact replica of your home, virtually. You are able to paint, add furniture and take measurements. You can access your 3D model anytime, anywhere.
Floor plans: Real estate investors always go back to the classic 2D floor plans. InsideMaps give you high-quality floor plans that give the potential buyers a quick and simple overview of the property. Floor plans include customizable room labels and measurements in square feet and square meters. You’re able to download and print your output in different formats – PDF, JPG and PNG.
3D tour videos: This feature lets buyers easily navigate the home you’re selling without actually being on the property. Coupled with super high-resolution pictures from HDR iPhone photography, your home can become visually appealing to your potential prospects.
HDR photos: Property photos are of utmost importance for online home listings. Buyers need to know what they’re getting into. With your iPhone, you can produce photos with the highest quality HDR photography, ensuring a visually appealing online listing.
Much Cheaper than a Pro
InsideMap’s pricing is pretty straightforward. They offer different prices for different property sizes and packages.
A standard package is $49.95, and you can add on extras like video, HDR photos and more. Check out the pricing here.
The only drawback (if you consider this a drawback) of InsideMaps is that you need to purchase the InsideMaps HERO rotor in order to scan a property. You’ll have to mount your phone or iPod touch on the rotor, pair them with Bluetooth, and then follow the simple instructions.
You can buy InsideMaps HERO on Amazon (for iPhone and iPod) for $189. Each rotor lists as its features:
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360 rotor device for iPhone 7 and iPhone 6/6s
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Fits any camera standard tripod
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Runs on 18650 3.7v Li-Ion Batteries
What Do You Think?
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Use Pictures and Videos – Whether you’re wholesaling, flipping or renting properties, high-quality pictures and videos really improve your chances.
Advertise the Most Attractive Features of any Property – Take some time to think about what are the best benefits to a buyer or renter of your property, list them out and include them in your ad. Include pictures. Put the best benefit in the headline.
Edit Your Videos – Don’t just put the raw footage online. Make it pleasing with nice transitions. Hire someone online to edit them if you are not good at doing it yourself.
JP Moses
is a real estate investor in Memphis, TN, with experience ranging from land lording to note buying, rehabbing, and wholesaling. However, wholesaling is the area that he enjoys most and where he bring the most experience and expertise to his students.