Yuma Virtual Tours

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Realtors:

Virtual tours are like having a 24x7 open house available online without agents or the home seller having to show the property. It's a tool to help you and consumers pre-qualify properties, saving everyone time.
73% of the top 500 real estate brokerages in the USA, offer Virtual Tours. This is a 13% increase from 2003 (RISMedia's 17th Annual Power Broker Report and Survey conducted in 2005).
Use of the Internet to search for a home increased from only 2% of buyers in 1995 to 77% in 2005 it now ranks as the number one most-used aid (National Association of Realtors 2005 Profile of Homebuyers & Sellers).
About 21.6 million Web surfers, or 15% of the active Internet population, visited a real estate or apartment Web site in April of 2005, up 26% from six months ago, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. They reported that the top 10 real estate and apartment sites collectively grew 54% from 8.2 million during November 2004 to 12.6 million visitors in April.
Seventy-seven percent of those who shop for homes on the Internet say the most important feature when searching online is photos -- followed closely by detailed property descriptions and virtual tours (2003 National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers).
Unlike many other internet activities, virtual tours are not the province of young internet users. Indeed, 52% of younger Baby Boomers (those age 40-49) have taken virtual tours, compared to just 37% of those in Generation Y (ages 18-27) (12/29/04 Pew Internet & American Life Study).
Those who demand virtual tours are more likely to be smarter, wealthier consumers in their prime home-buying years, compared to those who don't take tours (12/29/04 Pew Internet & American Life Study).
More than 6 million visitors, or the bulk of real estate surfers, earned a household income between $50,000 to $75,000, jumping 32% from November of 2004. Households with income of more than $150,000 rounded out the top-three, fastest-growing income groups (Nielsen//NetRatings April of 2005).
However, there has been an overall jump in visitors from all income brackets to real estate and apartment sites. Lower-income households earning up to $25,000 showed the most significant growth, with 1 million potential home buyers and renters viewing a real estate sites in March of 2005, marking a 47% leap within six months. (Nielsen//Net Ratings April of 2005).
On a typical day, 2 million people are using the Internet to go on a virtual tour (12/29/04 Pew Internet & American Life Study).
The spread of broadband connections has made virtual tours easier to view. Some 60% of those who have broadband connections at home and 62% of those who have broadband connections at work have taken virtual tours (12/29/04 Pew Internet & American Life Study).
Internet homebuyers start using the Internet very early in the home buying process and before selecting a real estate agent.
While it appears that the Internet is stealing thunder from the agent, consider this - nearly 90 percent of Internet searchers also used an agent to find a home, and 18 percent found their agent online. (2003 National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers).
Research reveals that Internet users more often find their home through a REALTOR® than non- Internet users. (2003 California Association of REALTORS® Internet Versus Traditional Buyer Study.)
By the time Internet buyers contact a real estate agent they have often:

Chosen the neighborhood they want to evaluate
Narrowed their choice of homes
Come up with a list of homes they want to see
Understood what they can afford and what their mortgage options are

Since Internet buyers typically have a good understanding of what they want, where they want to live, and what they can afford, they tend to look at fewer homes and buy faster.

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Homesellers:

Selling your property can be costly and time consuming. Traditional advertising such as newspaper ads, brochures, and open houses have a limited reach. These traditional forms of marketing don't give buyers a feel for what your property actually looks like.
Virtual tours reduce foot traffic, while ensuring that just as many, if not more eyeballs view the home for sale.
The Internet is now being used to extend the marketing of your property. As of recent, realtors in the U.S. are now commonly using virtual tours. This now provides sellers with an enormous additional audience. Now buyer's from all areas of the U.S. and beyond can view the property.
A Premium Audio description of your home allows you to quickly communicate the selling points of your home.
This online service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
This means you sell your property faster and will also save you time and money!
Reach more buyers with our Virtual Tours than with any other comparable product or service on the Internet.
With our Virtual Tour, you can avoid the hassles of having strangers visit your property unless they have seen your virtual tour and know they are qualified.
You can also advertise your property through the real estate sections of leading Internet sites in addition to the links we provide.
Email your property tour to prospects anywhere around the country.
Offer people the chance to take a virtual tour from anywhere with Internet accesstheir home, office or from any remote location.

How A Virtual Tour Benefits Homebuyers:

Searching for the right property can be time consuming and costly. Countless hours can be spent looking at properties and driving around to open houses. Virtual Tours can now eliminate hours of driving and viewing by optimizing time for both the buyer and their agent. Virtual tours provide an immediate and efficient way to view and eliminate undesirable homes and choose desirable homes to go see in person.
The Internet is becoming a major factor in searching the majority of properties listed for sale. Rather than merely viewing a small exterior photo and a plain text description, we allow you to see full color 360º views of properties, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Our Virtual Tours enable out-of-town buyers to make qualified decisions efficiently and conveniently because now they now have the ability to visually walk through the property without having to be there.
Our Tour's are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Virtual tours can be taken and viewed from anywhere with Internet access. And all of our tours can be quickly downloaded and burned to a CD to be viewed offline.
Navigate through the tour images without installing software, plug-ins or any long downloads.
Buyers can literally show the property that they are thinking of buying, to family and friends before they make a buying decision.
Use a Virtual Tour to look inside your future property when access to the property is limited -- visualize room sizes and decorating schemes before you move in!