At Sky Blue Homes we believe the devil is in the detail and that’s why we pride ourselves in presenting and advertising properties to highest possible standard.
We follow this strict mantra regardless of whether it’s a 3-bedroom semi, or a studio flat.
The way we market a property is three-pronged – using a combination of professional photography, virtual tours and of keeping our finger on the pulse of the marketplace so rent amounts are the perfect balance of being competitive and providing landlords an excellent return on investment.
We thought it would be a great idea to reveal in more depth the hard work that goes into these three areas of our property advertising strategy and show what you could be missing out on as a landlord who is doing all the marketing themselves, or a tenant looking for their ideal fit.
1. Professional photography
Sky Blue Homes has an in-house professional photography team that boasts over 5 years of industry experience. Using high-end equipment such as Canon EOS cameras with powerful flashes, they also use sophisticated light meter equipment to get the light balance in properties just right.
If required, we also go to great lengths to use staged photography, especially if a property is vacant at that point. This helps to bring furniture less, empty rooms to life – making them feel homely and lived in.
On top of all that, we had these expertly-crafted images to the property listing online, marketing it on leading property portals such as Right Move, Zoopla and also our own website –– which receives regular local traffic daily.
2. 360 Virtual Tours
To compliment our excellent photography, we also provide virtual tours of our properties. Using specialise camera we can take 360 panoramic images of each room within the property which is then digitally ‘stitched’ together.
This results in the ability to walkaround the property ‘virtually’, going from room to room, popping upstairs. All you need is a PC, tablet or smartphone and we’ll send you link to the property you’re interested in for you to view at your leisure.
Virtual tours is proving a great success since we introduced it over the summer. It gives another way to show off a landlord’s property in an impactful way, while tenants get the opportunity get the next best thing to a physical viewing if they don’t have time in the busy schedule or they have concerns about Covid-19 and social distancing.
3. Keeping an eye on the to-let market
We also keep a close eye on the property market as a whole, identifying new trends and keeping a landlord’s rent price policy competitive with the rest of the market
Sky Blue Homes provides advice on the best ways to maximise rental income – when the time is right to increase it and when. This supplemented with professional, empathic and fact-backed communication with tenants, thus keeping the equilibrium between tenants, ourselves and landlords as undisrupted as possible.
If you’re interested in Sky Blue Homes helping you with your lettings and property management then give us a call on 0116 254 8107 or head over to our home page. The Sky Blue Homes team stands ready to help and answer questions you have.
