Real Estate Photography

Zillow’s 3D Home Tours is new app (Sept 2019), for iOS and Android that just about anybody can use as long as you have a steady hand and an eye for detail. The virtual tour I posted below took about 20 minutes to shoot and render, then about 20 more minutes to process and load on my website. I think it’s better than much of the stuff we see on countless real estate websites. Just a few years ago, only serious professionals with high-grade equipment were doing this. Now – it’s in the palm of your hand, literally.

The real estate industry has seen a major surge in the development of “virtual tour,” applications in the last year alone. And then there’s the drone stuff. Drones can really increase the presentation of high-end properties to showcase vast amounts of nature like beaches or mountains.

Another cool feature, invented by Google, is creating a “walk-thru,” presentation as many of us use with Google Maps. I’ll be testing this asap, too. Here’s a video of this feature used by a company in Sunnyvale, CA called Matterport: https://www.facebook.com/Matterport/videos/1680999475274141/

I’ll be testing other applications, cameras, and equipment to find a setup that provides the best result at a good price-point.