Visual Tours redefines experience for realty industry
By: Francois van der Merwe Date: 01/01/2006
Visual Tours has revolutionized the online experience for South Africa's leading realtors with its superior virtual tour service, adding an exciting business dimension to selling or renting property on the net.
Customer satisfaction is evident in the fact that the company has secured contracts with major local real estate clients including Pam Golding Properties, Jawitz Properties, Sotheby's International Realty, Hunters, as well as overseas letting agents Caribbean Way.
Says Visual Tours director George Golding: "Our virtual tours department, Visual Tours, offers a full service web and email based virtual tour system that uploads, processes, hosts and distributes 360 degrees panoramic virtual tours for clients in a quick and hassle free manner. We pride ourselves as the only virtual tour and digital supplier that has a national network of photographers, which means clients can be serviced anywhere in South Africa, or the world for the matter. We also boast an online management system that tracks records, handles storage and keeps the customers in the know at all times".
He adds that Visual Tours also offers a self-service virtual tour option whereby the client photographs the property using the Visual Tours panoramic rotator, a digital camera and tripod. Images are then sent to Visual Tours using the software provided, where after graphic designers stitch and compile the images into tours. Turnaround time is 48 hours after a property has been photographed. The link to the panoramic virtual tour is emailed back to the client, ready to be displayed on a website or emailed to clients. This self-service option is ideal for estate agents as it allows for a large reduction in virtual tour costs.
"Another fact that gives us the edge in this industry is that we've custom designed virtual tour viewers that allow for easy viewing and low bandwidth connections. Overall, our product is polished and stands out as from other offerings in the market place. Testimony to this is the fact that Carribean Way, the largest provider of accommodation in the Carribean, has outsourced all its virtual tour photography to us. Our product is quick to load and our images are of exceptional quality. After all, image quality is everything, which is why international clients choose us," says Golding.
Apart from its virtual tour photography, Visual Tours also excels as provider of still & elevated photography for print production to the real estate industry.
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