3 Real Estate Video Topic Ideas

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Video marketing continues to grow in popularity in the real estate industry. This is because consumers love watching videos, and this trend does not appear to be losing any steam. Video marketing is an excellent way to direct traffic to your website. If your real estate business wants to take advantage of video marketing, here are a few examples of topic ideas that you can use to grow your business.

Highlight an area

People appreciate video tours. In many cases, homebuyers want to see a particular area; however, they do not always have the time to go see it in person. This is where video tours come in real handy. If you want to encourage homebuyers to check out a particular area, neighborhood videos are a great option. They are also helpful because they will drive organic traffic to your website because homebuyers are prone to search for specific locations in search engines. It is also worth mentioning that neighborhood tours do not require narration from you. A compilation of high-quality visuals will go a long way when crafting a neighborhood tour.

Business profiles

There is no reason why you can’t collaborate with others within the real estate industry. With this, consider doing video collaborations with other real estate leaders in your areas. Doing so will help you get in front of a broader audience and probably provide you more incite on an area as well.

Market updates

Real estate markets are always changing from year to year. Both homebuyers and sellers are curious about current market conditions because it directly affects them. If you are ever in need of video content, consider creating a brief video in which you update your audiences on the current real estate market in an area.

HUD Foreclosures

HUD foreclosures and VA Foreclosures are some of the best homes to buy when price is part of the equation. As with most Americans, price is always a concern. If not buying the same house for less, why not buy more house for the same dollar invested? When looking for a good deal it is hard to do better than the VA or HUD foreclosures market. The simple truth is that there are just more VA and HUD homes on the market, as they represent such a large number of mortgages that are generated each year. This translates into more foreclosures just by the magnitude of difference between all others comparing to the two largest.

The two largest also being government owned and operated means that they have less time to wait to make money back on the home. The FHA is especially known for selling HUD homes for less than the average sales price in a given area. FHA foreclosures represent a fraction of HUD but they are still a significant number of homes and both should be considered.

VA (Veterans Administration) and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) have different and unique opportunities for the buyer. Both are often forgiven for the local taxes normally associated with the purchase of a home (this is on a county by county basis). Be sure to ask the local title company or escrow company to look into it for you before closing as this is often missed due to their are not used to dealing with the 2 to 3 percent of the market that VA and HUD foreclosures represent.

Foreclosure Listings Increasing

As the market settled after the mortgage meltdown foreclosure listings also settled and fewer homes were on the market with a placard reading “Bank Foreclosure” in big red lettering. This was a good thing for the entire real estate market. Having an abundance of foreclosures brings the entire market down and it makes it harder for home owners, who would like to move, to get the appropriate price for their home as a similar home down the same street was sold for substantially less and the appraiser is using the foreclosure as a comparable sale.

This is just one of the problems when there are too many foreclosure listings in any area. Another issue is the television set that sits in everyone’s living room harping about the price of homes based on the number of foreclosures and this constant barrage of negative information makes most people sit on the sidelines waiting for the market to either implode completely or to correct itself. Meanwhile while they wait, others are buying foreclosure listings and making great investments.

Whatever the reason, a market can only handle so many foreclosure listings at any given time. The more foreclosures, the lower the market gets and this is a lesson the banks that were foreclosing and selling off realized too late. The market and their investments would have been better off if there had not been a rush to divest themselves of the toxic assets made more toxic by their own actions.