As a multiple time home buyer and seller, Liveshotmedia.com founder Brian DeRoy has shopped around for homes and noticed the lack of visuals that really determine whether a person should tour that particular home.

WHY HDHomelistings.com?

A pioneer in affordable video home tours, HDhomelistings.com is upping the game for home buyers and sellers alike. Many companies charge a fee for simply taking a few still pictures of a home for sale and putting those pictures on an internet listing. For about the same price, HDHometours.com uses a professional-grade High Definition camera to capture video on homes.

THE STORY BEHIND THE HOME…Would you watch a TV show with no sound or information?  Or even worse, so-called “virtual tours” with still shots that are put together along with bad elevator music!

The big advantage of HDHomelistings.com versus the still-shot guys is we’re able to tell potential homebuyers the story behind the home.  Home listings with only still shots don’t provide vital information like what their neighborhood looks like.  If a home has a great community pool or tennis court, buyers need to see and hear those details.  Perhaps a tree-lined street can captivate home buyers, liveshotmedia.com can easily include such video in the home listing.  Does a home have a great view from the backyard, liveshotmedia.com can bring that alive far beyond what any kind of still pictures can do.

VIRTUAL TOURS HAVE NUMEROUS DRAWBACKS: Right now, local Realtors are paying a service to have still shots and a computer generated, monotone voice present so-called “virtual tours.”  Do you really want a robot showing you a home?  With HDhomelistings.com, you get a Emmy Award winning professional broadcaster to write, voice and market  your video.

CUSTOM, BRANDED REALTOR VIDEO: Realtors need to do all they can to standout these days and Liveshotmedia.com can provide that.  Whether it’s an expertise in a certain neighborhood, home price point or use of technology, HDHomelistings.com can make a quick and compelling video that can easily be emailed to potential clients, or added to a personal website and even to the world on Youtube.com and Vimeo.com.

FOR SALE BY OWNER TOURS: Ok do it yourselfers, we haven’t forgotten you either.  Craigslist.com only allows you to post 4 pictures of a home, certainly not enough for a person to get a feel of your property.  But, HDHomelistings.com can do a custom for sale by owner video and post it on a number of websites, including your own page on HDHomelistings.com.com, craigslist and youtube.

The advantage of our service is the professional shooting and editing you will receive.  Do it yourself TV is fine if you’re doing silly skateboarding jump videos or birthday parties, but a home is your biggest investment and a professional video can get your home greater visibility and ultimately sold faster!

WHY HDhomelistings.com instead of the other video services?

• Do the other video companies have any experience in commercial television? If the “other guys” did work in TV, how large of a market was it, quality and standards are much higher in a top-30 market than having only worked in Columbia, SC, which is market 83 .

• Have you heard of any of the “other guys.” Brian DeRoy is a Emmy Award winning journalist who has handled major events in a dozen years, ask the other guys where they’ve been, what they’ve done?

• Writing, Writing, Writing! Remember, a 2 year old can grab a camera and shoot still pictures or even video. The flair for writing and melding video with information is what will make or break many projects.  Brian DeRoy and his team have written stories under extreme deadline pressure, under extreme conditions (hurricanes, blizzards, etc) and has a knack for understanding how to grab a viewer’s attention in a short amount of time.

• High Definition Shooting? Video on the internet is still evolving, but the way video is originally captured is the initial quality factor.  If a video service is not shooting in full High Definition (some folks cheat and use a 16×9 ratio, but it’s not high definition) you’re not getting the best picture.  Make sure to ask any videographer how old their camera is, if it’s older than 3 years, it’s close to outdated these days.

• NPPA Trained? There are certain standards in shooting video, many are given by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)  Brian DeRoy learned video photography from NPPA award-winning photojournalists and has worked alongside NPPA and Emmy award winning photojournalists during a 12 year TV news career.  If the other services can’t tell you what some of the NPPA video standards are, then you could be in store for one sloppy video project.