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It should come as no surprise that almost everyone gets online to look for new homes these days. A published report by statista.com shows that 99% of home buyers between ages 24-57 used the internet to find homes during their home-buying process in 2022.

So how can you make your online listings stand out? Other than your property’s price point, nothing will get a prospective buyer’s attention more than exceptional real estate photography. In fact, according to statistics by the National Association of Realtors, about 87% of homebuyers on the internet find images to be among the most useful features of listing websites when looking for new homes.

But beyond that, timing might be everything when it comes to professional photography and selling your property. The secret is twilight. Exterior photos taken during the first or last hour of daylight—sometimes referred to as the golden hour—have become more and more popular in real estate listings.

And while natural twilight photos can be enough to hook someone browsing listings, with a little bit of editing, you can enhance the colors of the captured sky and your home’s interior lighting to achieve maximum appeal. Using an edited twilight image with enhanced skies as the listing’s main photo averaged 76% more views than listings without the use of twilight images.

Virtual twilight photos may lack some of the realism, but they are definitely eye-catching. Featuring vivid colors, high contrast, impressive sky views, and warm interior lighting, it’s easy to see how these images can grab the attention of prospective buyers. Studies have also found that listings with these edited virtual twilight images received 16% more views than those with natural twilight images.

What’s best for your home can depend on a variety of factors, however. Sometimes natural twilight is preferred, as shooting during the daytime can be problematic due to the shadows the sun casts, or because of the amount of landscape and/or architectural lighting on the property.

Better Photography, Better Home Prices

While only about 8% of online home listings include twilight photos, the listings that do tend to have higher home values, with 59% of homes selling for more than $500,000, 32% of homes selling for between $30,000-$500,000, and 8% of homes selling for $100,000-$300,000.

And better photos also mean better offer prices. Homes featuring professionally-edited photos receive 47% higher asking prices per square foot (cbsnews.com). So jumping on the trend of using virtual twilight photos may be the edge you need to get maximum value out of your available properties.

If you are in need of a listing agent, or our professional photography and editing services, contact licensed realtor Conrad Leavitt and Trillivison today. We can help you do it all.

If you have land for sale in the Asheville or Burnsville area, let Trillivision take to the skies and give your prospective buyers a bird’s eye view of what your property has to offer. We take pride in our real estate drone photography work and offer the best quality packages around.

Using drone software developed with real estate in mind, we provide breathtaking photos with parcel boundary overlays to give you and your clients the best perspective on your land’s dimensions—efficiently and accurately.

With a licensed pilot drone operator since 2017, we’ve racked up more than 600 flights, more than 500 miles flown and in excess of 120 hours of flight time. You can choose Trillivision with confidence, as our drone operator is a photographer first and foremost. That means every flight path and aerial shoot is planned out with technical precision to generate the best views possible.

Trillivision uses the DJI Mavic Pro 2 for all of our drone flights. Our drone is small, stable, and includes focused features that make it perfect for real estate shoots and MLS marketing endeavors. You can expect video quality up to 4K and images of 20 megapixels. And with an inventory of batteries that each allow for 30 minutes of flight time, we ensure we have enough capacity to fly indefinitely and get the footage you need to make a sale.

Get on the cutting edge of real estate drone photography and make the deal you need to move your property. Contact us today to book a drone flight for your Western North Carolina real estate and commercial development projects.

To take a look at the quality of our real estate drone flights, visit our YouTube channel.

Professional Photography does make a difference says the largest representative of homes and land for sale throughout Western North Carolina. For more than 50 years Beverly-Hanks & Associates has been leading the market for real estate in Buncombe and neighboring counties. Including Yancey County and Mitchell County. That is to say they couldn’t be more right. Professional Photography does make a difference!

Reasons to hire

There are many reason to hire a professional photographer to take your listings pictures. For example; true color to represent the true nature of a home, or color correction to green the grass in winter, or the use of wide angle lens to capture the whole room, or prefect sized exports for MLS, the list goes on. Lets not forget the use of drone services that help capture homes from other angles that a conventional camera just cant do as easy.

Did you know that commercial drone photography require you to have an FAA License? and that license must be renewed every two year by taking a test at one of the Federal Aviation Administration testing facilities? You can read more about it here. Not everyone who has a drone to snap a picture should take your listings drone photos. A photographer should. “Photographer first and Drone Operator second” is our motto says Trillivision’s owner Conrad Leavitt.

Can’t avoid the facts

According to Beverly-Hanks, 3M Corporation and Zabisco, 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual. In addition, visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. Therefore if you wish to generate more views and showings ultimately landing more money in your pocket don’t skim out. In other words, give homebuyers a reason to look. More importantly give them the professional look. Furthermore home shopping is now done online. The majority of shoppers for example rated photos of properties for sale as the most useful website feature according to the National Association of Realtors® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.

Get in touch

For more information on the advantages Trillivision Media House’s photography services offers visit our packages for real estate. Above all, give us a call when you’re ready to start really selling!

Who knew the leaf season would prove to be so beautiful here in Western North Carolina?

Most of us living here or visiting during October know what leaf season is but if you don’t come visit!. Driving on the Blue Ridge Parkway or on any number of mountain road will prove to be breathe-taking with the magnitude of color that the mountain foliage displays. Our Drone Services captures the colors from above. Here’s a guide to help you find the best of the best locations for fall in the mountains.

It’s hard to predict year after year when the leafs will change and how they will change. Some years are better then others. Still there’s always that one tree or row of bushes that I look forward to seeing year after year. Even if the entire mountain side is not covered in fiery red and tainted golden yellow there still one tree that grabs my attention that yes, yes indeed fall is here. For me it’s a great time to be out taking photographs and hiking the properties that real estate agents are listing for sale. Other times it’s a reminder that winter is coming. No fear! I love to snowboard. White covered mountains, to me, are just are beautiful as the fall color peaks.

Sunsets in Western North Caroline remain a sight of beauty though out the year but something about the orange glow off the orange leafs make sunsets in fall extra enjoyable. If you own land around Yancey County please reach out to our team to let us capture the beauty of you land during the fall. Also be sure to check out our other photography services. We also offer video productions for a number of events; not just weddings. Give us a call or come by the office. We’re open most days.