Drone real estate photos were recently used in the listing of a sleek hillside property worth $4 million. With a built-in HD video camera, a drone copter hovered like a hummingbird over a row of olive trees.
Curt Walton used his DJI Phantom 2 to reach soaring heights where two hawks circled behind it as the camera rotated 180 degrees to take pictures of the vistas across Silicon Valley. He claimed that it he felt like he was up there floating like a bird, floating with his camera. He even admitted to getting dizzy.
Drone real estate photography had been growing quickly in the real estate industry, pioneering a new form of digital promotion for agents and sellers aiming to stand out from competitors, according to a feature from QCOnline.com.
Walton said that the technology will give real estate professionals a leg up through an advantage that can beat all other existing technologies. He used his remote-controlled flying devices to shoot the videos that prospective buyers had come to expect. This has been helpful as most tech types and foreign investors will not want to make a move towards buying a house without checking the online information first.
Darrell Monda, the TourFactory Bay Area president, said that people were buying multimillion-dollar properties, and the drone promotes the lifestyle of the property. Monda had produced over 500 videos with the use of drones in 2015, including a number by Walton. He stated that most of his photographers had drones they keep in their trunks at the ready.
Drone real estate photographers will face three big challenges which are trees, wires and people. Walton had taught techniques maneuvering these obstacles in his drone operator safety classes for real estate photographers. Real estate agents had seeng the value of having this view from the sky, especially for elite properties, according to a feature from ABC.
