Service Area: Video Tours Vancouver and Surrounding Areas

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10 Dec, 2007
News

Service Area

Did you know that Video Openhouse is now able to provide video real estate tours and house/condo/townhome photos for areas outside of Vancouver?  Our service area now includes Langley, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, New Westminster, Surrey, White Rock, Ladner, Richmond, Pitt Meadows, Delta, Burnaby, Port Moody, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Belcarra, Anmore, Bowen Island, Squamish, Whistler and Maple Ridge.  On Vancouver Island, our service area includes Victoria, Nanaimo, Oak Bay, Saanich, Esquimalt, View Royal, Langford, Metchosin, Sooke, Colwood, Sidney, Chemainus and Ladysmith. 

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/152/service-area-video-tours-vancouver-and-surrounding-areas/

Video Tours and Time Lapse Photography

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7 Dec, 2007
News

Wall Centre 

At Video Openhouse, we strive to create “compelling content” for the Vancouver real estate industry.  We try our best to make our photo galleries and our video tours visually interesting, capturing the attention of the Internet audience.  Recently, we have had an opportunity to implement time-lapse in to our Real Estate Video Tours.  Here are some examples:

Kip Smith, TRG Realty: 638 Beach Crescent

The 3 Ryans, TRG Realty:  8654 Seascape Drive

Winnie Lam, Winnie Lam and Associates Realty:  938 Nelson Street

Jordan Hurdal, Prudential Sussex Realty:  5590 Gallagher Place

 

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/153/video-tours-and-time-lapse-photography/

Unique Video Tours: Victoria, Vancouver Island

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5 Dec, 2007
News

Unique Homes in Victoria 

Generally, our blog posts have focussed on real estate related issues and video tours in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.  Recently, our Victoria affiliate, Brenda Wainwright, formerly of Viewahome Media, provided professional real estate photography and produced a Victoria Video Tour of one of Canada’s most unique homes.  The home was recently featured on HGTV’s show, “The Worlds Most Extreme Homes”.  Here is the Video Openhouse Tour:

Sharone Elizabeth, Royal LePage Coast Capital
3112 Steele Street:  video tour – photo gallery

 

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/151/unique-video-tours-victoria-vancouver-island/

Video Tour: Vancouver Luxury Homes

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4 Dec, 2007
News, Vancouver

Luxury Homes

Vancouver has an incredible number of luxury high-end homes. It seems that every house in West Vancouver and Vancouver West is $1,000,000 or more. Having a video tour produced for these high-end homes is an ideal way to market the property to potential clients overseas, prescreen potential buyers and impress the sellers. Here are some recent Video Real Estate Tours and Photo Galleries of luxury houses in Vancouver:

Tom Gradecak, RE/Max Crest Realty (Westside)
3590 Cypress Street: video – gallery

Clair Rockel, Macdonald Realty
1757 West 40th Avenue: video – gallery

Patrick Melanson, RE/Max Select Properties
317 5th Avenue: video – gallery

Marion Patrick, RE/Max Crest Realty (Westside)
3641 Cameron Street: video – gallery

Charles Bilash, Century21 In Town Realty
1109 Hillside Road: video – gallery

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/147/video-tour-vancouver-luxury-homes/

Lofty Living – Vancouver Lofts

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19 Nov, 2007
News, Real-Estate

Bowman Lofts

Do you like open concept living, soaring ceilings and spaces that you can define yourself? If you do, you will probably like loft living in Vancouver. You aren’t restricted to Gastown or Yaletown either. There are lofts in the West Side; Downtown, False Creek, Marpole, Kitsilano and Cambie, and in the East Side as well; Collingwood, Grandview, Hastings East and Mount Pleasant.

Here is a list, names and addresses, of lofts in Vancouver:

GASTOWN

1911 Warehouse Conversion: 518 Beatty Street

28 Powell: 28 Powell Street

55 Alexander: 55 Alexander Street

550 Beatty Street: 550 Beatty Street

Abbott: 233 Abbott Street

Alexis: 27 Alexander Street

Bodega: 229 Carral Street

Bowman Lofts: 522 Beatty Street

Captain French: 41 Alexander Street

Carrall Station: 1 East Cordova Street

Edge: 289 Alexander Street

Globe: 34 Powell Street

Greenshields: 345 Water Street

Koret Lofts: 55 East Cordova Street

Malkin: 141 Water Street

Mission House: 150 Alexander Street

Pilkington House: 120 Powell Street

Taylor Building: 310 Water Street

Van Horne: 22 East Cordova Street

YALETOWN

1168 Richards: 1168 Richards Street

1180 Homer: 1180 Homer Street

1241 Homer: 1241 Homer Street

ALDA: 1275 Hamilton Street

Crandall: 1072 Hamilton Street

Del Prado: 1155 Mainland Street

Grafton: 1238 Homer Street

Greenwich Place: 1226 Hamilton Street

Hamilton: 1178 Hamilton Street

Illiad: 1245 Homer Street

Metropolis: 1238 Richards Street

Murchies Building: 1238 Richards Street

Nelson: 1070 Nelson Street

New Yorker: 1066 Hamilton Street

Space: 1238 Seymour Street

Tribeca: 988 Richards Street

WEST SIDE

2088 West 11th Avenue: 2088 West 11th Avenue

531 Beatty: 531 Beatty Street

540 Beatty: 540 Beatty Street

6th Avenue West: 128 West 6th Avenue

999 Seymour: 999 Seymour Street

Cedar Mews: 1811 West 16th Avenue

Centro: 138 West 6th Avenue

CHOKLIT: 1174 – 1178 West 7th Avenue

Devon Court: 1855 Vine Street

Loft 338: 338 West 8th Avenue

Loft 495: 495 West 6th Avenue

Metro: 2156 West 12th Avenue

Miro: 489 West 6th Avenue

Retro: 8988 Hudson Street

ROAR_1: 4387 West 10th Avenue

Simon: 980 West 22nd Avenue

Spot: 933 Seymour Street

Waterfall: 1540 West 2nd Avenue

XL: 428 West 8th Avenue

EAST SIDE

1227 East 7th Avenue: 1227 East 7th Avenue

1850 Lorne Street: 1850 Lorne Street

4590 Earles: 4590 Earles Street

Art Works: 237 East 4th Avenue

Artech: 336 East 1st Avenue

Brewery Creek: 280 East 6th Avenue

Cannery Row: 2001 Wall Street

City View Terraces: 1718 Venables Street

Cornerstone: 2525 Quebec Street

Elements: 2515 Ontario Street

Granite Block: 234 East 5th Avenue

L’Atelier: 2556 East Hastings Street

Left Bank: 919 Station Street

Mecca: 272 East 4th Street

SOMA Lofts: 2635 Prince Edward Street

Workshop: 1220 East Pender Street

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/146/lofty-living-vancouver-lofts/

Feel Like Alfred Hitchcock? Personalize Your Real Estate Video Home Tour

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17 Oct, 2007
Helpful Tips, News

We have been recently asked by some of our clients to develop a video tour that is distinctly different than our standard Video Openhouse Home Tour. Essentially, the video becomes an extension of the Realtors’ existing brand, conveying to the general public that they have a different approach to marketing homes. Here are 3 examples:

Ian Watt (www.ianwatt.ca), Macdonald Realty:
Brava: PH4 – 1199 Seymour Street

Jim Noonan (www.jimnoonan.net), Macdonald Realty:
Kensington: 50 – 1386 Nicola Street

Kasha Riddle (www.riddle-realestate.com), Riddle Real Estate:
6587 Nelson Avenue

You will notice that all 3 videos are more upbeat and faster-paced than our standard Video Openhouse Tour. Users of the Internet are extremely impatient and want information quickly. We have found that most viewers will not watch videos longer than 2 minutes and want to see the highlights of any property as quickly as possible. In all 3 cases, many details of each property are left out but in every case the video is concise and keeps the viewers attention.

Both Ian Watt and Jim Noonan appear in their respective videos. Ian Watt is more prominently featured as he talks about the highlights of the suite. Jim Noonan is shown but usually as a cameo, having appeared on a deck, reading a paper or looking out a window in past videos. Again, it is an opportunity to let the general public become more familiar with the Realtor.

Ian Watt and Jim Noonan also have custom music that will not appear in any other videos on the Video Openhouse website. Their songs are much more upbeat and and much less in the “elevator music” style. The music is a reflection of their respective clientelle and does a great job capturing and holding the viewers attention.

In Zygmund and Kasha Riddle’s videos, they prepare their script for us first, before we shoot the property. The script becomes the outline for the content of the video. The voice-over further emphasizes the highlights of each property.

Having a Video Openhouse Tour produced? Want to become more involved in the process? Talk to us about your ideas and how we may be able to implement them in to your videos. We work with you to ensure the best video tours possible.

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/145/feel-like-alfred-hitchcock-personalize-your-real-estate-video-home-tour/

Take Your Real Estate Marketing to the Next Level: Our Photos Increase Realtor Exposure

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15 Oct, 2007
News, Photography

Real Estate Book Cover

Real Estate Book Cover

Real Estate Book Cover

Real Estate Book Cover

Real Estate Book Cover

Do you recognize any of these covers? They are all recent issues of the Real Estate Book … and the cover photos are all images that we provided for our clients. Realtors that are interested in increasing their exposure by advertising in traditional print-based publications such as the Real Estate Book, Homes and Land, the North Shore News, WestEnder WE Magazine, Vancouver View, Vancouver Magazine, Yaletown Magazine, the Vancouver Province should use professional real estate photographers to ensure that all their photos look their very best. Every piece of advertising from feature sheets, photographs, video tours, business cards and websites to name but a few, are all a reflection of you, the Realtor. Our real estate photography can increase your exposure by taking your marketing materials to the next level … and may even land you and your listing on the cover of a real estate magazine.

http://www.vopenhouse.ca/blog/144/real-estate-book-our-photos-increase-realtor-exposure/

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