Benefits

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Realtors:

• Virtual tours have become one of the most important tools for selling a house. Home buyers who used virtual tours as a significant portion of their home-buying experience spent an average of two weeks with a Realtor® looking at homes, compared to those who did not use the internet, who spent an average of seven weeks looking for their home. (2008 RIS Media)
• Long Island Virtual tours are like having a 24x7 open house – available online without agents or the home seller having to show the property. It's a tool to help you and consumers pre-qualify properties, saving everyone time.
• As of August 2006, over half of American adult internet users (61%) have taken virtual tours of another location online and on a typical day, more than six million people are taking virtual tours in cyberspace. (2006 Pew Study)
• According to the 2007 NAR home buyer and seller profile, for the first time ever the Internet has tied with the agent for most important information sources used in the home search (84%).  As of the end of 2007 65% of agents have their own web sites.
• 79% of repeat buyers & 84% of first time buyers use the internet to search for a home. (2006 NAR Survey)
• Images are one of the biggest reasons Internet marketing has become so popular. (2007 NAR profile of home buyers and sellers)
• 54% of home buyers who are searching for their next home on REALTOR.com will not even look at a home unless there is a featured tour. (NAR, January 2006)
• More than 2 million people per month are using REALTOR.com®, the official site of the NAR. (Jupiter Media Metrix, Dec. 2001)
• Real Tour Vision™ is a PicturePath™ Partner with homestore.com™ which allows virtual tours powered by Real Tour Vision™ to be posted to the #1 real estate Web site – REALTOR.com® with more than 1.7 million listings. (Net Ratings, Sept 2001)
• Internet homebuyers are more educated and invest significant time investigating the housing market and financing options before contacting a Realtor. Internet buyers spend nearly three times as much time investigating real estate markets before contacting a Realtor than traditional homebuyers. By the time Internet buyers contact an agent, they have a good understanding of what they want, where they want to live and what they can afford. (2001 CAR study)
• Most Internet homebuyers (89%) use the Internet in the home buying process before they start to look for a specific home.
• Internet homebuyers start using the Internet very early in the home buying process and before selecting a real estate agent.
• Since Internet buyers typically have a good understanding of what they want, where they want to live, and what they can afford, they tend to look at fewer homes and buy faster.
• Traditional homebuyers look at nearly twice (15.08) as many homes with a real estate agent prior to purchase as Internet buyers (7.93). (2001 CAR Study)
• By the time Internet buyers contact a real estate agent they have often:
  • Chosen the neighborhood they want to evaluate
  • Narrowed their choice of homes
  • Come up with a list of homes they want to see
  • Understood what they can afford and what their mortgage options are
• time they purchase a home. (2001 CAR Study)
• Internet homebuyers on average purchased a more expensive home than traditional homebuyers ($403,752 versus $321,950). (2001 CAR Study)

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Home Sellers:

• Selling your property can be costly and time consuming. Traditional advertising such as newspaper ads, brochures, and open houses have a limited reach. These traditional forms of marketing don’t give buyers a feel for what your property actually looks like.
• The Internet is now being used to extend the marketing of your property. As of recent, realtors in the U.S. are now commonly using virtual tours. This now provides sellers with an enormous additional audience. Now buyer’s from all areas of the U.S. and beyond can view the property.
• A Premium Audio description of your home allows you to quickly communicate the selling points of your home.
• This online service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• This means you sell your property faster and will also save you time and money!
• Reach more buyers with our Virtual Tours than with any other comparable product or service on the Internet.
• With our Virtual Tour, you can avoid the hassles of having strangers visit your property unless they have seen your virtual tour and know they are qualified.
• You can also advertise your property through the real estate sections of leading Internet sites in addition to the links we provide.
• Email your property tour to prospects anywhere around the country.
• Offer people the chance to take a virtual tour from anywhere with Internet access—their home, office or from any remote location.

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Homebuyers:

• Searching for the right property can be time consuming and costly. Countless hours can be spent looking at properties and driving around to open houses. Virtual Tours can now eliminate hours of driving and viewing by optimizing time for both the buyer and their agent.
• The Internet is becoming a major factor in searching the majority of properties listed for sale. Rather than merely viewing a small exterior photo and a plain text description, we allow you to see full color 360º views of properties, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Our Virtual Tours enables out-of-town buyers to make qualified decisions efficiently and conveniently because now they now have the ability to visually walk through the property without having to be there. We specialize in Nassau & Suffolk Tours, but also cover much of New York.
• Our Long Island Virtual Tours are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We provide tours in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and most areas in NY.
• Virtual tours can be taken and viewed from anywhere with Internet access. And all of our tours can be quickly downloaded and burned to a CD to be viewed offline.
• Navigate through the tour images without installing software, plug-ins or any long downloads.
• Buyers can literally show the property that they are thinking of buying, to family and friends before they make a buying decision.
• Use a Virtual Tour to look inside your future property when access to the property is limited -- visualize room sizes and decorating schemes before you move in!