Virtual reality could offer some homebuyers a convenient way to view their Oxford real estate showings.
How are Oxford real estate showings changing?
Many home buyers who seek a second residence in Oxford, MS have a primary residence elsewhere. Buying a property from afar is tricky. There is always a question of cost and efficiency while planning the decision to view properties. Clearing a chunk of time to account for travel to Oxford and between prospective homes. Traffic can be insane for gameday weekends. Plus, every trip to view properties only adds your the hotel, travel, and meal costs. Worst case scenario is spending all the time and money to discover dissatisfaction with all of the options. In most cases, all that buyers can do is to look at a few photos or blueprints of a newly developed residential area. Meanwhile between your trips to view these properties, ideal properties could have sold. At the very least, you will need a REALTOR to keep you in the loop.
Oxford real estate showings could benefits from virtual reality
It seems as though in a matter of time, these real estate property searches will be experienced with virtual reality. Virtual reality is starting to make a splash in the luxury residential market. Additionally, architects are seeing benefits by presenting a property in its early concept stages and adding features to show the completed space in virtual reality. Other applications might include land development and understanding ingress and egress for traffic flow analyses.
Imagine a buyer being able to view 20 properties per hour from the comfort of the living room. Or, tenants of an office building view updates for their new space. Clearly, the possibilities are endless.
As of January 2017, headset costs range from $600-$800 and adapt to your Android or Apple hand-held mobile device.