Are there any competing services new to the market?

I am a vrguild user and had checked out one other group mentioned a while back but they did not seem a better alternative. I was hoping to do some comparative shopping for GUI.

Yes, we are still here. Hometour360VirtualTours.com that is, we have geared our site towards the professional virtual tour provider. We now support "direct linking", meaning that you just provide us the virtual tour link and it will be posted just as you intended the tour to look. We do not add our logo or try and fit your tour into our template. This is true for our FTP hosting as well.

We are working on expanding our networks and will pass on the information to Easypano when we do. We agree that Realtor.com is a must, but why stop their.

Giving our clients the distribution to make their tours more desirable is our goal.

HT360VT

Richard, Homeseekers and homes is a little different than realtor. com - can you explain how the process works to get the links on those sites?

Your site says *Homeseekers.com & Homes.com tours can only be posted

if the listing exist on those websites.

How do we get the listings there? Thanks.

I would go with hometour360virtualtours. I use them and they have great prices and great service. The direct link is what sold me. I do all custom layouts for my clients with some having more than just panos such and floor plans and info pages. The direct link allows me complete control over the layout and I can control access to the tour. I don't like uploading my source pano files to a server I can't control. But thats just me.

I can answer VT360's question as I have actually called all the other providers. Realtor.com will list any mls listing on their site that they can pull from the public MLS database's who support Realtor.com's API. However, realtors who are paying members and/or have a "featured account" will get their listing to come up first before the public listings.

Homeseekers and Homes.com require the realtor to be a paying member. This means they must pay their fee to get an account. If they have an account then the tours will be posted just like on Realtor.com. Some, but not many Board of Realtor MLS systems have "board memberships" which means any realtor who is a member of that organization can have their listing posted without an individual account just like at realtor.com. If the board is not a member of one of these sites then it is up to the indivudual realtor to get an account.

Hometour360virtualtours will post your tour to these sites just like Realtor.com for the one price but the realtor must have a membership at these sites.

The many real estate portals listed like Yahoo Real estate etc....will list your tours just like it was a normal web page. So no special account is required.

General Lee

Thanks Gen.

Is yahoo pulling the listings from the MLS?

Will a tour link from hometours360virtualtours show up on Yahoo?

Just a point to anybody reading this outside of the USA.

This thread is relevant only to those wishing to add their tours to the US based realtor.com real estate network it is not relevant to the rest of the world.

Just to avoid any confusion.

Regards, Smooth

Smooth,

Just curious, does Australia have a Real Estate (MLS) Multiple Listing Service Provider ?  Is there a dominate Australian Realtor that works  with MLS?

No thank god!

www.realestate.com.au but they don't control the market solely. There is also www.propertyguide.com.au among others.

Australia has laws about monopolising and there must be free trade and competition. Otherwise you end up with rip offs.

You also can use whatever brand of viewer you like for virtual tours. I must say I'm amazed at the situation in America.

Regards, Smooth