A High Quality Website is Essential for
Successful Real Estate Professionals

Study after study has conclusively proven that when home buyers search for property online, they are looking for photos, virtual tours and detailed property descriptions. We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. If the listing information on your Website delivers what a prospective home buyer is looking for, you stand a much better chance of doing business with them. If you fail to meet their expectations, they will move on and find another agent who provides them what they are looking for.

For the past 5 years, PhotoTours has been helping the top Santa Barbara real estate agents promote their listings online with the finest presentation of photographic content and listing information available. Not only do our PhotoTours help to sell property, they can also be instrumental in securing new listings. Actually showing an owner how their home will be marketed online is one of the best ways for an agent to differentiate themselves from their competition.

We also have a proven track record of developing Websites and supplying successful Real Estate Professionals like yourself with the kind of listing information that home buyers are looking for. For example, our Enhanced Agent Websites enable you to manage your active and sold listings, showcase Featured PhotoTours that are branded with YOUR contact information, and empower prospective clients to perform MLS property searches.

Can you afford to under-deliver what Internet Empowered Consumers are looking for (e.g., photos, photos, and more photos)? Of course not.

PhotoToursIDX Offers the Highest Quality Images - Period.
You Be the Judge

As a succesful Real Estate Professional you would never send a prospective client marketing materials that contained blurred and fuzzy photos. First impressions are everything in our business. You have the right and the obligation to demand the highest quality images from your marketing sources.

To compare the image quality and image size of PhotoToursIDX to other IDX solutions, we invite you to click on the following links for a side by side comparison.

• PhotoToursIDX
• mlsfinder.com
• iHomefinder
• Prudential
• Coldwell Banker

We believe that there is simply no comparison between the size and quality of our pictures and the competition. You be the judge.

Can You Afford to Be Second Best?

We believe that our IDX version of the Property Search feature that we developed for the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors is superior to any other IDX product that's currently available on the market.

First, PhotoToursIDX is also the only Santa Barbara MLS Search solution that is RETS-compliant which means that our listing information is updated HOURLY (not daily). As a result, prospective clients who visit your site will not only view more current listing information, those who sign up to receive New Listing Updates will receive them more frequently!

Next, when it comes to data integrity, PhotoToursIDX search results come closer to matching FlexMLS than any other IDX solution (click here).

We can also easily make our IDX interface match the exisitng design and color scheme of your Website. We welcome you to take a test drive and see for yourself.

• It's possible to perform a Google Map Search (Enhanced version only).
  
• Selecting "Cities" is simple and intuitive. We even included Hope Ranch as a "City".
  
• Our "Cities" mirror the "Districts" used in FlexMLS (e.g., Montecito = District 10; Santa Barbara = Districts 15, 20 & 25, etc.). This makes our search results more accurate.
  
• People who are already familiar with the Santa Barbara area can also search by "Neighborhood / Area"( Enhanced version only).
  
• Parents who know where they want their children to school can refine their search by "School".
  
• It's possible to search by Address, MLS #, Zip Code, and Key Words (e.g., text in the Property Details field.)
  
• Search results conveniently display up to 50 listings per page and on a Google Map (Enhanced version only).

The 'Enhanced' version has been designed to give people who are using the MLS Search feature on your Website a truly interactive experience. Not only will they have the ability to save searches and favorite listings and receive e-mail notifications when the new listings that match their search criteria become available, you'll be able to monitor the search patterns and activity level of people who have signed up to use and capture their contact information.