Use Matterport 3D Tours To Sell Homes Faster Realtors and property sellers, you have a huge opportunity to make your listing stand out. Matterport 3D Tours are insanely effective, and currently the most underutilized promotion tool when selling homes in Spokane and CDA, which gives you a big opportunity. And it's super easy to upload your tour to your listing with only a few clicks. Continue reading to learn exactly how you can sell homes faster using Matterport 3D Tours, as well as all the...
3 THINGS I’VE LEARNED AS A REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER
Nearly two years ago, I started working as a real estate photographer here at Grand Showing. I had been practicing photography for about seven years prior to this, mainly doing it as a hobby until I shifted in February 2020 to providing real estate media and customer service to dozens of realtors, sellers, and businesses. Additionally, I started this job just before Covid-19 took hold in the U.S. and also during Spokane’s unprecedented housing boom that made it rank consistently in America’s...
Using Drone Photos To Attract Home Buyers
Drone and aerial photography has become an incredibly useful, and oftentimes essential tool for real estate photography. It gives you unique perspectives that shows the home/property better in a practical sense and can also show it in a more pleasing way to catch the attention of potential buyers. Take for example the photo above. A normal front-side photo from the ground would only catch the home, distant trees on one side, and maybe a couple of hilltops on the other. But with this drone...
Tips For Succeeding As a Realtor on Instagram
We all know that real estate photos are perhaps the biggest factor in getting a potential buyer interested in a home, so are you making sure you’re doing well on the world’s most popular photo-sharing social media? We want to help you thrive, so here are some tips for helping you grow both your real estate business and brand on Instagram: Your Profile Obviously, the first step is to make sure you’re profile is created and optimized. Some people choose to have one profile that they post both...
How To List Your Home On Craigslist
This is another post in our continuing series explaining how to list your home on different sites, and why it matters (read our Facebook guide here.) Whether you’re a realtor or selling your home yourself, you want as many tools available to get the best deal on your home. In this post, I’ll be explaining how Craigslist can be another way to help get your home sold. Why Craigslist? Essentially, for the reasons same you should list your home on Facebook, you should list it on Craigslist as...
How To List Your Home On Facebook, And Why It Matters
Whether you are a realtor or selling your home yourself, you want to use every tool at your disposal to get your home viewed by as many people as possible. With the tools and ease of use of Facebook, it is an excellent place to list your home no matter who you are. Why You Should List Your Home on Facebook It’s Free And Easy With a service that is free, easy to use, and as popular as Facebook, there’s no reason not to list your house on here. All it takes is 5-10 minutes of your time and your...
A Guide to Quality Real Estate Photos
In real estate photography, the goal is to have your photos make a home stand out from others while appealing to as many people as possible. While there are certainly many different styles and techniques for taking real estate photos, there are general principles that any good real estate photo follows that allow it to reach the previously stated goals. So whether you’re taking photos yourself or looking for a to hire someone to, here’s how to determine if the photos will help or hurt how your...
Why Drone Photos Will Help You Sell Your Home
Everyone is aware that higher quality photos make your house stand out from ones with lower quality photos, but what about having different types of photos from others altogether? The goal of real estate photography is to help you sell your home by making it stand out from others with images that make it look its best. Drone photos do this because while all homes for sale have photos from ground level, a bird’s eye view catches everyone’s attention. Drone technology has become increasingly...
3 Important Ways to Prepare Your Home For Photos
One of the most important things you can do for selling your home is making it look pleasant in your photos. Whether you are just taking photos with your phone, or you are hiring a real estate photographer, how you prepare your home is a huge factor for how good the photos will look. If you’ve hired a photographer, you shouldn’t expect them to make many adjustments to your home, because unless you are paying extra for more of their time, most photographers can’t afford to spend valuable...
How To Take Real Estate Photos (With Your Phone)
Good real estate photos are crucial in selling a home quickly. According to Shannon Petrie (editor at HGTV) “80 percent of homebuyers starting their house hunt online, a home’s “pix appeal,” or how good it looks in photos posted on the internet, is taking over as the top way to impress buyers off the bat. In a survey by the National Association of Realtors, homebuyers rated photos as the feature they use most when searching for a home on the web. Online listings with bad pictures -- or worse,...