Real Estate Agency Presentation

We specialise in architectural and landscape photography. We have the equipment, methods and image processing techniques to capture your establishment and surroundings beautifully.  We provide a total digital solution providing you with a complete portfolio of great images for your website, brochures and magazine advertisements.

Please review items below to learn more and view examples, please contact us for further information and pricing.

• Vanilla still photography
• Chocolate still photography
• Elevated pole photography
• Virtual tour services
• DIY virtual tours
• Online property brochures
• Client comments

Vanilla Still Photography   This is our low budget, not low quality, service to Real Estate agencies to allow them to replace their amateur photography taken by estate agents with professional photography at very reasonable rates. Considering that photographs are still the most popular way of selling real estate, it is crucial to ensure that your first impression sells. The one photograph might be the only chance you will have to catch the interest of a potential buyer. Make sure it’s the right one. It is critical that a property is photographed in a professional manner by a photographer who has the necessary equipment and skills.   Note our images are delivered in high resolution and in an adjusted format for the old machinery of the newspaper press, to ensure you have the best possible printed result for your newspaper advertisements.  Coverage: CT, JHB, PT

Chocolate Still Photography If you would like a production quality shoot, for your sole mandates or a magazine spread of a special property, choose this service for high end photographs. Coverage: CT, JHB, PT, DB, PE, BL, GR

Elevated Pole Photography

This is a highly effective and practical solution over aerial photography both from a logistical and cost point of view. The service is currently available in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria.  Coverage: CT, JHB, PT

Virtual Tour Services

A home purchase is a significant and substantial transaction that usually represents the largest financial commitment an individual will ever make. Most homebuyers are infrequent and inexperienced participants, faced with the daunting task of searching through an extensive array of homes, hoping to find the elusive utility-maximizing ‘‘perfect’’ home. The search process is further complicated because the product is unique and immovable. It cannot be transported to a central market where an observable bid-ask auction process occurs. Rather, the buyer must approach and examine an array of homes in various locations. This, then, is a more dynamic search process than the standard price-time choice faced by a homeowner attempting to sell a home in a specific location. Buyers and Sellers rely on real estate brokers to aid them in their home search because obtaining housing market information is time-consuming and costly. The Internet, however, has brought a sea of change and is making housing searches much cheaper and easier. The advent of virtual tours of homes interiors/exteriors can allow buyers a 360° degree look at each room which greatly enhances the usability of a property website. In the past, it is almost unavoidable that a homebuyer would waste time on visiting a few completely unsuitable properties. The virtual tours save the prospective house seekers (renters and buyers alike) time and effort in "screening" for probable property listings. Sellers and Estate Agents benefit too, through qualifying buyers needs and reducing the requirement for regualr show houses.   The Internet allows someone to sit comfortably at home or in an office and review all probable listings BEFORE actually contacting the relevant agents/owners for a visit.  When the home buyer finds something that meets their specifications, they inform their interest to the seller or the listing broker. The rest of the process is still done traditionally. In 1995 3% of Americans used the Internet as their first point of research when looking to purchase property - today it is 77%. Need we say more ! (See article) Mail & Guardian reported that Internet usage in South Africa is skyrocketing. The number of active South African browsers on the web has grown by 121% from 1,8-million in May 2005 to 3,9-million in May this year. In the same period, the number of page impressions grew by 129% from 91-million to 207-million. (See article) There is no doubt that the Internet is an excellent research platform for property for potential buyers. Virtual Tours are used successfully in South Africa to land mandates, to save time for the buyers, the sellers and the agents. They are an excellent short listing tool and it's not unheard of that properties are purchased site unseen. Please contact us for further information and pricing. We offer one free trial virtual tour to all new estate agency branches in central areas. Contact us to order your free virtual tour today. Coverage: CT, JHB, PT, DB (other areas on request)

DIY (Self Service) Virtual Tours   Visual Tours offers a web and email based virtual tour system that uploads, processes, hosts and distributes your 360 degrees panoramic virtual tours. This is ideal for estate agents as the service allows for a large reduction in virtual tour costs. The user photographs the property using our panoramic rotator, a digital camera and tripod. Images are then sent to us using the software provided, whereafter our graphic designers stitch and compile the images into tours. Within a short time the link to the panoramic virtual tour is emailed back to the client, ready to be displayed on a website or emailed to clients. This service is being used by over 200 agents countywide and we have a number of international clients as well. We are developing this solution to increase the usability and features. Coverage: Global

Online Property Development Brochures

This is a highly effective method for making information on property developments accessbile over the internet quickly and easily. They are inexpensive and make use of the printed brochures and textual information you already have. On top of this we visit the development site and shoot virtual tours and stills to increase the visual information to the potential investor.

Client Comments   Client:  Jawitz Properties Person:  Rozanne Abrahams Website: www.jawitz.co.za Comment: THANK YOU VERY MUCH - YOU ARE A SHINING STAR!! Client:  Woodfall Management Person:  Peter Curtis Website: www.tcigroup.co.za Comment: They are more than happy with the work that was done. Client:  ReMax Peak Person:  Carmen MacRae – Front Desk Website: www.remax-peak.co.za Comment: Thank you very much for the beautiful stills.  Client:  ReMax Living Person:  Jennifer Grater - Agent Website: www.remaxliving.co.za Comment: Thank you all so much for efficiency and the wonderful pics! Client:  ReMax Living Person:  Susan Watts – General Manager Website: www.remaxliving.co.za  Comment: Thank you for the excellent service you have given us thus far. Client:  Jawitz Properties Person:  Paula Neild Website: www.jawitz.co.za  Comment: Well done on an excellent brochure, Herschel and the developers who are out from Israel were truly impressed.  As always, the Visual Productions Team surpasses our expectations. Great working with you! Client:  Churchill Murray Properties Person:  Adrienne Marais – Graphic Designer Website: www.churchillmurray.co.za Comment: This tour looks great thanks! … thanks so much Client:  Jawitz Properties Person:  Jorge Neves Website: www.jawitz.co.za Comment: Thank you for such a quick response. Client:  Churchill Murray Properties Person:  Adrienne Marais – Graphic Designer Website: www.churchillmurray.co.za Comment: Thanks so much! Looks great, thanks for making the pool blue! Looked like a pond before. Client:  Jawitz Properties Person:  Lillian Baatjes – JAM Facilitator Website: www.jawitz.co.za Comment: I would like to forward my personal 'WOW' to the prompt feedback to the above-mentioned property, we at Sandton Jawitz are fully aware of the kind of pressure that is required from your staff when urgent orders are placed. This e-mail is an acknowlegement of your constant support. THANK YOU! Client:  Jawitz Properties Person:  Paula Neild – IT Communications Manager Website: www.jawitz.co.za Comment: The service is fast and efficient. People can view properties from the comfort of their own home. We have had a rave reviews, from both the public and our customers. This is an excellent marketing tool. Client:  Pam Golding Properties Person:  Simon Gibb – National IT Manager Website: www.pamgolding.co.za Comment: In terms of offering our clients a better service, it gives us an edge over our competitors. It assists in qualifying the customers requirements and in general our customers have given the product a great review.”