Virtual House Tours

More and more estate agents and private owners are turning to virtual tours of their residential houses to give them the edge when marketing a property.

There are a range of different types and standards of tour. Some companies specialise in creating bespoke tours (see Revolution Viewing.com for examples of yacht virtual tours, showroom virtual tours, bar virtual tours etc), some companies specialise in creating affordable virtual tours specifically for the housing market (that's Panoviewing.co.uk), some companies do both and some don't seem to specialise in anything at all.

Beware the web-design house or marketing company that 'also do virtual tours'. Without doubt there will be some out there that do a perfectly good job, but we have had people come to us complaining that their virtual tours by Company 'X' look poor and in some cases don't work. We have had some clients that have initially opted for the cheaper Company 'X' only to find that they received an inferior product and service and had to recommission the project. In each case we were happy to create the virtual tour properly, but we are always frustrated when we hear of unscrupulous characters out there making it more difficult for the professionals to market high quality virtual tours.

For selling houses an integrated floor plan is usually recommended. A specialist virtual tour provider should be able to create and supply a floor plan for each level of the house that allows the user to click on any of the rooms for direct access to that room. A nice touch is when your virtual tour provider can supply a larger floor plan with room dimensions. See www.panoviewing.co.uk for an example of virtual tours with floor plans and floor plans with dimensions. It is always worth clarifying with your virtual tour provider whether or not they will be an additional charge for a set of floor plans.

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