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Sell More Houses With Videos!

Real Estate Video: a High Return for Your Investment

Why is video usage in real estate marketing so popular? It offers an unbelievable return on investment. Don’t let worries over added expense get in your way. This affordable marketing medium delivers amazing bang for the buck, delivering:

• Four-times the inquiries as home listings marketed without video.

• Double the click-through rate when included in emails.

• 75% less opt-outs.

• Business – 85% of buyers/sellers want to work with agents utilizing video marketing strategies – giving you an added edge over area competitors.

How Can You Improve Return on Investment?
Produce the right videos to cash in on prospects looking for video in their home/realtor search. Of those taking advantage of video in real estate:

• 86% use video to research a particular community – allowing you to create ‘evergreen’ content that can be used time-after-time.

• 70% use it to tour inside homes.

• Many use it to ‘find an agent,’ with such YouTube searches increasing 46% year-over-year.

Reap Huge Dividends with the Right Marketing Tactics

• Take Advantage of Tools.
Tools like Virtuets make video production fast and affordable, providing a polished look that delivers more views than lackluster material.

• Cozy-Up to YouTube.
With 51% marketing share, YouTube is a must for video marketing success. Now the top destination for house hunters – even over listing websites – set up your own channel and make YouTube your default upload location. Organize by playlist and optimize with search-friendly keywords, descriptions, and tags to boost your rankings.

• Share, Share Alike
Now is the time to take advantage of boosting visibility on social mediums, while competition is minimal. The more places you post your video content (your website, the local MLS, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat), the more likely you’ll be to get noticed. Paste links to automatically embed videos (or look to site instructions).

You can’t afford to miss out on video usage in real estate marketing! Get started with the help of Properties Online today.

Let Property Movies Deliver Customers to You Like That Drone.

Real Estate Videos are Morphing into “Movies” in the Luxury Marketplace

Video usage in real estate marketing is already evolving. Going beyond drone shots, agents with luxury listings are now experimenting with cinema-like property movies. These short films feature actors, music scores, story arcs and Hollywood-quality cinematography, cashing-in on online video platforms that are rapidly becoming a key component of successful property sales.

Old-School Walking Tours are Obsolete
People are more easily attached to a story, following it through to the ending – even with performances more Razzie than Oscar. The best movies showcase properties in a way that helps buyers see themselves there.

Over-the-Top – or– Out-of-this-World Publicity?
In some cases, homes cost more than making a movie, and sellers are looking for a little red carpet marketing treatment. How is video usage in real estate marketing playing out for this luxury fare? Movie-like examples include:

• A 14,230-square-foot Bel-Air home that sold for $39 million, marketed with a video featuring 2 kids who take a note from Ferris Bueller, playing hooky to splash in the home’s infinity pool, whack golf balls over the L.A. skyline from their yard, try on outfits in large walk-in closets, and have a puppy delivered by drone.

• Another home, a 5,500-square foot 5-bedroom Hollywood estate listed for $3.65 million, featured a fictional narrative of a couple passionately arguing their way through the sleek, contemporary estate, revealing high-ceilings, high-tech security, and marble fireplaces. The wife chucks her diamond ring in the pool, and the husband is kicked-out, showcasing the neighborhood.

Funding Production
Movie-style marketing videos can cost anywhere from $5,000-$30,000 plus – but they’re not only for extravagant fare. Consider another take: A lower-budget trailer for a 3,008-square-foot-home featuring little girls at a sleepover, traversing the home and ending with a late-night living room dance-romp to Taylor Swift.

Ready to add a little more sparkle with video usage in real estate marketing? We’ve got many ideas. Learn how PropertiesOnline can help you boost your business today.

Millenials Flock to Home Auctions

Moving Millennials Into the Home Buying Marketplace – Creating the Desire to Own

Will your neighbors’ millennial children (or your own) ever move out into their own homes? More than 76% of millennials report they’d like to buy a home, and real estate trends correspond with this, pointing to the high traffic volume on online real estate platforms. Millennials want to make a move, but why aren’t they opening the door? The answers are surprisingly simple.

No Dinero
Affordability is a major issue in the vast majority of U.S. cities. With a low to no affordable housing supply, demand has pushed prices into the ‘are you kidding me’ category for a generation who’s battling baby boomers for job positions. Underemployment and fickle freelancing, with its irregular cash flow, are rampant.

Give Me Some Credit
Getting credit for a home is likewise tough, and the country’s student loan debt crisis isn’t helping matters. Over 44 million borrowers owe $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans across the U.S. The average ‘Class of 2016’ student is graduating $37,172 in debt, a number which has risen over the past 5 years.

Could You Hand Me a Band-Aid?
In the long-term, builders (with some incentive from local government), could help heal affordability issues. Added federal programs: (1) may or may not increase access to financing; and (2) find creative ways of dealing with student loan debt. But how can you tap into this market now?

Let the Bidding Begin
More millennials are buying auction properties than any other age group, with market changes breaking down previous barriers to entry. Buyers under 35 are the most likely to purchase a home in foreclosure. Here, marketing such listings to the public via an online strategy can net you great results in the millennial market. With a good listing video, a total online purchase isn’t out of the question for this genre.

Go all-in on the latest real estate trends. Open-up to new opportunities with Properties Online today.

Video is the New Discrimiator for Listing Agent Choice

Use of Video is the New Discriminator in Which an Agent is Chosen for a Listing

Have you become realtor roadside detritus? 70% of home buying families forget their agent’s name after a single year. That means no referrals for you… Unless you can prop up your reputation. How can you avoid getting tossed aside? Video usage in real estate marketing.

How Can the Answer Be That Simple?
Relatively new to the scene in an industry that’s slow on the uptake when it comes to the ‘latest and greatest,’ 2014 stats point to just 12% of agents holding a YouTube account. Of that 12%, a mere 5% are actively creating video marketing material.

Homeowners and home buyers WANT VIDEO. Why wouldn’t they? It’s faster and easier for buyers to glean information without ever leaving the couch – and it gives sellers a marketing edge. 73% are more likely to list with an agent who utilizes video.

For Realtors, Video Equates to Marketing Gold, Shared with the Click of a Button
And this treasure can be unearthed for far less time and monetary investment than many realize. Boosting Google ranking and click-through rates 41%, video brings more people to your doorstep, keeps them there longer, and enhances their emotional connection to you without so much as an in-person handshake. Real estate groups that utilize video receive 403% more inquiries than those without it. How’s that for ROI?

What Types of Videos Get Realtors Noticed?

Educational area/community videos
Hungered for by 86% of viewers looking to learn more about an unknown area.

Agent profiles & ‘About Us’ videos
These videos, paired with customer testimonials, build brand credibility and trust.

Listing videos
On the wanted list for 70% of the buying/selling community.

‘How-To’ videos
56% are dying to know more on the buying/selling process – and not just potential first-timers.

Industry insight videos
Because times are rapidly changing.

Bored with blogging? Video use in real estate marketing is here. Are you taking advantage? Learn how with Properties Online today.

Are You Ready for Virtual Reality in the Real Estate Marketplace?

Are You Ready for Virtual Reality in the Real Estate Marketplace?

Today, 20 million buyers are taking advantage of virtual reality (VR), and that number expected to reach 50 million by the end of this year and a whopping billion by 2023. Experts predict VR will change the industry the way the Internet and video use in real estate marketing did, so how long will it be before you market a home in VR?

The Timing is Right
With Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg 2014 investment in the industry, VR technology has rapidly matured, getting easier to use and coming down significantly in price. In fact, it’s a foregone conclusion that VR will be a part of the industry, and companies like Matterport and Realvision are paving the way.

Get a Load of That!
In some cities, such as Minneapolis, VR has already joined aerially droned tours as standard fare for agents, allowing prospective buyers to shop without ever engaging in a physical showing. Used with goggles and headsets, and paired with a smartphone or computer, VR gives shoppers a viewing experience that makes them feel like a part of the image – not viewing it from the outside or single perspective, but providing a comprehensive look at every interior surface.

How’s It Work?
Agents hire companies with high-tech software. Gamers have been using similar tech for years, with computer-generated imagery and environments. It stitches together photos, compiling to create 360-degree room views impossible to beat with traditional slideshows and video fares.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
While VR creates a strong emotional response that static images cannot, it allows buyers to get a true feel for spaces sometimes hundreds of miles away. VR tech also makes it more difficult to conceal problem features you wish buyers wouldn’t see.

Video usage in real estate marketing is moving faster than you think. Don’t fall behind and miss out on its amazing advantages. Hop aboard with the help of Properties Online today.

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