New Buyer Tour Technology Helps Real Estate Agents Bridge the Geographical Gap
By Reggie · November 18, 2007
With Real Estate agents looking to embrace the latest technology tools like blogging and social networking, many are noticing their buyer contacts are originating from out-of-town locations. So how does a real estate agent efficiently show local homes, without the buyer traveling for each buyer’s tour? I’m not talking about emailing MLS printouts!
SiteSeer3D is an online application that integrates with your website and allows real estate agents to show buyers 3D views of local geographic areas and points of interest. OK, I know so far I’m just describing Google Earth and Microsoft Live Maps technology. But SiteSeer3D packs in tons of other useful features by interfacing with the local MLS. For example, imagine the buyer (or buyers agent) zooming into individual properties for sale and identifying a home’s proximity to schools, parks, and downtown locations. SiteSeer3D also displays parcel boundaries, much like Cyberhomes, to help buyers understand the true size and shape of the lot. Buyers can click a “details” button on any home for sale to see listing photos, tours, physical characteristics, associated flyers, mortgage calculators, community links and resources etc.
If a real estate agent would like to give their buyer a guided tour, they can use SiteSeer3D’s remote tour guide features. This allows the potential buyer to watch his/her screen while the real estate agent takes the driver seat and explores the local homes for sale and community characteristics. This tool makes the initial preview insightful and helps eliminate showing mismatches; making the actual tour day much more productive while shorting the sale cycle.
After carefully reviewing the SiteSeer3D demo, I found the technology rather intuitive; however one challenge you may face is that they are not integrated with every MLS. When they do integrate, data flows from the MLS via a FTP data push or RETS feed. I was told by SiteSeer3D Excel import is also available although I have not personally tested the feature.
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Is this SiteSeer3D Free or a paid subscription? I couldn’t find any information on their site.
-Brad
This would be a great tool. I have clients that are coming in from Dallas and because they are not able to preview the areas in which the homes they like are in this would solve that problem. I’m going to have to let me webguy know about this.
Brad, I grabbed the pricing at NAR, but can’t locate it in my notes. I’ll find and post today.
Rick, it’s great to hear the post helped you! If you find that SiteSeer3D is not avaliable in your area, you could try purchasing Google Earth Pro. This version allows you to import excel. So you could do a search on your MLS, then export the results for the buyers tour. Import that file into Google Earth and then the points will be plotted. You can also add overlays with Google. (i.e. schools, community centers, freeways etc.) Then simply use online meeting software.Here are a few Online Meeting Options
I hope one of these options work for you. Please let us know if we can be of help!
Brad-
SiteSeer3D is sold on a subscription basis, SiteSeer3D is available to connect to all MLS’s that allow it within their rules. Due to the cost of purchasing the updated imagery and parcel data we are adding SiteSeer3D on a MLS by MLS basis. We add in a new market area when we can find a large brokerage or MLS that would like to provide this tool to its members. For more info you can contact me direct jared@geodatatechnologies.com
Jared
Amazing tool!
Unfortunately, for real estate agents and users abroad it is like a scifi movie