Benefits
How A Virtual Tour Benefits Realtors:
- Virtual tours have become one of the most important tools for selling a house in Southern Maryland. 92% of home buyers consider the addition of property photos to an online listing to be very important. (NDP Group, Sept 2000) The average online listing with a virtual tour receives 38% more views than listings without tours. (REALTOR.com® internal logs. July 2001)
- Virtual tours by CRS are like having a 24x7 open house – available online without agents or the home seller having to show the property.
- Virtual tours on REALTOR.com® receives an average of 13 hits per day and each scene gets four views per day. (Summary Tour Traffic Report, Internal logs. Nov 2001)
- 2 million people per month are using REALTOR.com®, the official site of the NAR. (Jupiter Media Metrix, Dec. 2001)
- Roughly 50% of Homestore™ visitors are "actively shopping". Of those actively shopping, 94% say they have found a home/homes that they are interested in on REALTOR.com®. (this means that, of our total visitors, just under 50% say they have found a home they are interested in.) (REALTOR.com® Web Site Visitor Survey, November 2001)
- Homebuyers are becoming much more Web savvy. 60% of homebuyers are using the Internet to get home buying information. By 2005, Jupiter Research predicts that number will be as high as 80%. (NAR Jupiter Research Oct 23, 2001 Realty Times)
- Most Internet homebuyers (89%) use the Internet in the home buying process before they start to look for a specific home and use virtual tours as a means of deciding what to see.
- Traditional homebuyers spent over three times as much time looking for a home with a real estate agent than Internet buyers do (6.44 weeks versus 2.10 weeks)
- 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
How A Virtual Tour Benefits Home Sellers:
- Selling your property in Southern Maryland 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 the way a virtual tour by CRS does.
- 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.
- This online service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- Reach more buyers with CRS Virtual Tours than with any other comparable product or service on the Internet.
- With CRS Virtual Tours, you can avoid the hassles of having strangers visit your property unless they have seen your virtual tour.
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. CRS Virtual Tours can now eliminate hours of driving and viewing by optimizing time for both the buyer and their agent.
- 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, CRS Virtual Tours allow you to see full color 360º views of properties, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- CRS 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.
- Use CRS Virtual Tours to look inside your future property when access to the property is limited.

