The iPod Way Of Selling Homes

04.03.07 - 12:11pm

The new method of selling homes has transfered from walking through 50 different properties in order to see the features, to virtual home tours that pan around a room, to the new order of the day - tours the iPod way.

The new way of touring homes is called home gliding: a way of touring the home where instead of panning around a room through a “fish-eye” view, the virtual home tour is more like walking through the house with your real estate agent and instead of sitting at your computer - you can be out at a ball game looking at your iPod and “walking” through your new home.

“Having the tours available online is obviously still important,” stated Homegliding President Eppie Vojt, “but the portability of the iPod adds another dimension for the Realtors we work with. We hear all the time that a realtor might meet someone at a soccer game or in the store who mentions that they’re looking for a certain type of house that sounds like a great match for one of the realtor’s listings. Maybe they hand them a business card or jot down a number, but too often, they never hear from them again.”

“What if instead of saying ‘There’s this great property you should check out, call me,’ they said ‘There’s this great property you should check out. Here, walk through it,’ and 3 minutes later, they’ve toured the house without having to ever leave the game or the store?” asks Vojt. “That’s pretty convenient.”

The tours themselves have become successful due to the easy portability of the iPod and also due to the lifelike, engaging way the tours are now filmed.

Joe Gallo, owner/broker of Remax at Hershey said, “Homegliding offers a way to show a home without leaving the office. It is more than a virtual tour, it is a real ‘virtual showing.’ We have sold homes without the buyer physically stepping in to the home using Homegliding tours.”

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