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3d tours are amazing, but unfortunately, at least in Iowa, they're almost never used by real estate agents. There is a for sale by owner company (FSBOHomes) who

3d tours are amazing, but unfortunately, at least in Iowa, they're almost never used by real estate agents. There is a for sale by owner company (FSBOHomes) who charges a flat fee for marketing your house, and includes it as part of their base fee. I ended up buying and selling a house through that platform. It saved me tons of time on the buy side since it provides a great virtual walk through as well as a floor plan with dimensions. Floor plans were never available if a real estate agent posted the house.

yhoneycomb 6y ago
Glad to be up to date on what's happening in Iowa
sjg007 6y ago
Did the 3d view match your expectations.. Oddly, I find them hard to physically visualize.
- DavidPeiffer 6y ago
  Overall, pretty well. It saved us a lot of time compared to spending a day going to open houses which aren't a good fit (outside of basic specs on paper) or driving around town with a real estate agent looking at houses. It was far better than the photos normally posted online. Most websites host ~25 photos of the property, and my last house had 8 rooms. It's really tough to assess a house and understand how the rooms flow together with so few pictures. The floorplans generated by Matterport may be more helpful if you have trouble visualizing it. I would pull up those floorplans and measure the room we were in and say "the living room is 3 feet wider, and the couch would take up about half of this wall" to help put things into perspective. I wasn't using VR, just looking through on a computer. Not sure if VR would help.
- monkeydust 6y ago
  Yea especially with vr. Agents photos are really misleading but with 3d a small room feels like a small room. Edit: One thing I did notice with matterport was a lot of personal information can leak out about who lives there. Made the BBC recently: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046

yhoneycomb 6y ago

Glad to be up to date on what's happening in Iowa

sjg007 6y ago

Did the 3d view match your expectations.. Oddly, I find them hard to physically visualize.

DavidPeiffer 6y ago
Overall, pretty well. It saved us a lot of time compared to spending a day going to open houses which aren't a good fit (outside of basic specs on paper) or driving around town with a real estate agent looking at houses. It was far better than the photos normally posted online. Most websites host ~25 photos of the property, and my last house had 8 rooms. It's really tough to assess a house and understand how the rooms flow together with so few pictures. The floorplans generated by Matterport may be more helpful if you have trouble visualizing it. I would pull up those floorplans and measure the room we were in and say "the living room is 3 feet wider, and the couch would take up about half of this wall" to help put things into perspective. I wasn't using VR, just looking through on a computer. Not sure if VR would help.
monkeydust 6y ago
Yea especially with vr. Agents photos are really misleading but with 3d a small room feels like a small room. Edit: One thing I did notice with matterport was a lot of personal information can leak out about who lives there. Made the BBC recently: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56718046