Is there special software or download needed to view Homelands.ca Virtual Tours?
How is the Virtual Tour ordered and produced?
How does Homelands.ca display the 360° Virtual Tour on your website?
92% of homebuyers consider the addition of property photos to an online listing to be very important.
The average online listing with a virtual tour receives 40% more views than listings without tours.
The Internet is one of the most important mediums influencing how real estate is bought and sold. Not only can potential purchasers search for their ideal property, they can also experience new levels of convenience and time savings through the use of Virtual Tours. Virtual Tours allow users to see the “whole picture” enabling them to make a qualified decision on viewing and buying property.
The real estate market has been one of the first industries to use and benefit from the use of virtual tours, because of its heavy dependence on property images and its early shift to communicating with customers via the Internet. The main attributes of Virtual online Tours is expressed in convenience, time and expense savings and immediate and accurate representation of the property.
Real Estate and the Travel industry are now the top rating e-Commerce categories.
Benefits to Real Estate Agents
Digital virtual tours are the most potent marketing tool ever made available to real estate agents. In a few short years from now, Internet usage and purchasing will have grown so rapidly that your customers will fully expect the better estate agents to have embraced this new technology.
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Virtual Tours increase the chance of matching a property to the purchasers requirements
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Virtual Tours save home buyers time and expense when searching for a property
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Virtual Tours are becoming the prime property listing resource for home buyers
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Home buyers prefer previewing homes via virtual tours before physically viewing the property
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Virtual tours are like “open houses” 24 hours a day
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Virtual Tours provide an accurate representation of the property and decrease the time and expense of showing properties.
Having Virtual Tours for your listed properties shows that you are committed to utilizing all available methods for the quick selling of the properties you list. Having a portfolio of your listed homes available online can be invaluable when you are stacked up against your competition. Whether you have one or 20 Virtual Tours, they will show off your properties with substance and style. Your prospective buyers become acquainted with a "virtual walk-around" of the home and property so that even before they have physically stepped onto the property or into the home, yours are the better-qualified buyers. They have a real feel for the home.
Is there special software or any download needed to view Homelands.ca Virtual Tours?
Rarely. Almost all web browsers are already able to display Homelands.ca Virtual Tours - including those used by the latest Apple devices - because they almost all have Java pre-installed. However, if you are an Internet Explorer user, Sun Java works well, and we recommend a quick download and install of Sun Java to enhance your viewing on this site and others.
Unlike many Virtual Tours which require the download of a special viewer, Homelands.ca uses a small Java Applet which doesn't require a special download. It is available immediately. There are only rare instances when a person browsing may not have Java enabled or installed. Here is a link to Sun Java for a free download, for those who may need to install Java.
How is the Virtual Tour ordered and produced?
Listing a home on homelands.ca is economical, quick and easy. Send an email to orders@homelands.ca or call 250-744-1537. We will then be in touch soon to arrange a photo shoot at the home. We then take 360 degree panoramic pictures and still photography, which should take about an hour or less. When you order floor plans with your photos, you receive a professionally designed print-ready brochure absolutely free of charge.
Be sure that the home and property is ready to be photographed, as though preparing for a real-time showing. Once the photography is done the home will be on the Homelands.ca server and your own website that same day. The home listing will have its own page, complete with contact information and a printable feature-sheet so that the agent can receive calls or e-mails from prospective buyers.
How does Homelands.ca display the Virtual Tour on your website?
With your first Homelands.ca Virtual Tour comes a new page for your web-site. It's a one-time process that will allow all your Homelands Virtual Tours to be viewed from your web-site.
Two steps to your own Virtual Tour Page:
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Homelands.ca creates a customized Virtual Tour Page and a custom Viewer branded with your logo.
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That new page is loaded onto your website, with a link created from your Home Page to your new Virtual Tour page. Upload of the new Virtual Tour Page to your web-site and creation of the link on your Home Page is normally handled by Homelands.ca or by your web-manager. When Homelands.ca uploads the page and creates your home-page link, we would need to have upload access to your website. We would arrange this directly with you or your web-manager, either in person or by phone.
That's it. Now, every time a new Virtual Tour is created it automatically shows up on your web-site, added to any you already have.
Once your new Virtual Tour page is functional, all of your Homelands.ca Virtual Tours are instantly available at your web-site. Homelands.ca web-server and Virtual Tour technology is always linked to your Virtual Tour page, a full-time connection that provides you with 24/7 display of your first Virtual Tour and any subsequent Virtual Tours you may order from Homelands.ca.
