Photography For Real Estate

About a month ago I went on a rant about so many PFRE readers using Flash, Java etc that can’t be seen on mobile devices and Terry Iverson rightly accused me of not eating my own dog food, since my site still used Flash based 360s and slideshows. Who me? Okay, okay, so I’ve got [...]

I think it’s time stand up and say that for practical business reasons if you want your tours and sites to be seen by real estate agents then forget about Flash, Java or QuickTime on any site or tour that you want real estate agents to see. The simple reason is that iPads are rapidly [...]

Alan and Paul over at TourBuzz.net have been working hard for the last several months at adding video to their tours. Back in mid-December when I put my Snoqualmie, WA rental property on the market I encouraged them to add video to their tours. They immediately added a feature they call “tactical video” (up to [...]

Michael and Alfie over at PFREtour.com just told me about some significant new features they have added tour their tours. Here is a summary: Embeddable Tours: You can now embed your tour on any website. This is a great option if you have agents that want to include the tour right on their agent or [...]

Today as a follow-up to comments I made on Monday’s post about taking control of how your images are presented Brandon Beechler, an Orange County, CA Architectural photographer/web designer pointed out that he agrees and since he is skilled in CSS and HTML he creates and hosts his own tours for his real estate photography [...]

David Eichler just showed me a shoot that he did recently of a high-end property, The Tobin-Clark Estate-Hillsborough, CA listed at $29,000,000. This home is considered one of finest designs of Architect David Adler . As David explains on his blog post that has 11 images from this shoot, this is not a typical real estate shoot in that [...]

On Friday Tourbuzz.net announced what they call “tactical” video on their tours. Tactical video is Clips are limited to 10MB (10-15 seconds) that you can upload just like still photos. As far as I can tell this is a completely a new concept to have short clips in a tour. Here is an example of [...]

Chad Jones sent me a quote from one of his best clients: I want you to honestly tell me if virtual tours are in the way out of fashion because I have been on the phone with realtor.com complaining that no one is looking at the tours from their website on most all of my [...]

Herb at Tourfactory.com gave me a free tourfactory.com tour to contrast how tourfactory.com tours look and function differently than the pfretour.com tour I’m using. I have to say that design wise Tourfactory.com tours are the very best looking still tour design that I’ve ever seen. No exceptions! If you are using just still photos tourfactory [...]

Today Mike O’Neill in Knoxville, TN asked a great question: “I see lots of articles about using Video to market your properties, a few on Tours. Can you write an article about Video vs Tours ? I’m in Knoxville, TN doing some real good virtual tours, but I’m seeing Video moving up the popularity scale. I [...]