Agents are told to make video and mostly make the wrong one: a slow silent walkthrough that duplicates the photographs and gets watched by nobody except the vendor.
The videos that work are shorter, less complete and more opinionated, and they take far less time to produce than the ones that do not.
A complete tour answers a question nobody has yet. Early-stage buyers are deciding whether to care, and a four-minute tour of every room asks for commitment before interest exists.
The photographs already do the completeness job, and they do it faster for someone scrolling.
The videos that hold attention are about a single feature or a single problem, and they say something a photograph cannot.
A phone, daylight and a steady hand outperform a scheduled videographer, because the videographer means the video happens once and the phone means it happens every time.
Vertical, short, and talking to the camera as you would to a buyer in the hallway. Polish signals advertisement; roughness signals a person.
Everything that applies to a listing caption applies to what you say on camera, and video makes it easier to slip because you are improvising.
Characterising who would love the home, describing the neighbourhood's people, or using a landmark that signals religion are all as problematic spoken as written. If anything the risk is higher, since there is no draft to review.
One visit should produce several posts: the feature clip, the honest drawback, the street, the local context. Filming once and publishing four times is the only version of this that survives a busy month.
It also means the property keeps appearing without you needing to return to it.
Film one specific thing rather than a whole house, keep it rough and fast, and remember Fair Housing applies to what you say on camera.
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