We all know that open houses are important when trying to sell your property, but how can you do this during the Caronavirus outbreak?
This article will outline all of the steps needed for you our your clients to create 3D Virtual Tours using the Zillow 3D App and an iPhone for free. This is not a sponsored advertisement for Zillow, we are not receiving any compensation for recommending their product.
As of Saturday March 21 2020, OREA President Sean Morrison stated:
“I am calling on all REALTORS® to cease holding open houses during this crisis and advise their clients to cancel any that are planned. If a client has an urgent need to sell or buy a home during the COVID-19 crisis, there are other real estate tools that REALTORS® can use for showing a property, including virtual tours.”
As reported by the Global News: https://globalnews.ca/news/6712816/coronavirus-ontario-real-estate-open-houses/
We agree with Sean, the safest way to showcase a property during this COVID-19 outbreak is to use virtual tours, and the best way to do this is to have your clients create their own so that they can then share it with you to upload to their listing.
By having your clients create their own virtual tours, no one has to enter their property and everyone can continue to self-isolate as best they can.
Granted the images and virtual tours are not going to be as good as hiring a professional photographer but having your clients take their own pictures and virtual tours so that no one has to enter their property is the safest method at this time.
There are multiple ways for your clients to create 3D virtual tours but have found a lot of the options to be overly complicated, in our experience the easiest way for your clients to create their own 3D virtual tours is to use the Zillow 3D home app which is free to download and use. That’s right, it will not cost you or your client any money to create 3D virtual tours using this method, and to top it off it’s super easy to do! The only thing is that this method requires that you have an iPhone 7 or newer.
I hope this information helps you and your clients during this time.
Here is an example of what your virtual final virtual tour might look like:
Our WordPress plugins automatically embed these 3D virtual tours directly into the listing details pages.