[...] Open Houses are notoriously difficult to find and there is no one source that makes it easy to organize them…until now.  Add that to our new neighborhood search feature and, whamo, your life just got a whole lot easier.  No more sifting through hoards of sites and unrelated classifieds just to plan your weekend jaunt.  If that isn’t one of the greatest advances in real estate technology then I don’t know what is! [...]

I’ve recently published an eBook called the Virtual Open House that is right in sync with what you’re doing here.

[...] A Laboratory For Real Estate Blogging ← Single Property Sites – A Time-shift Open House [...]

I would say you have definately been ahead of the game. You must feel they are worth the effort or you wouldn’t keep doing them, right?

1. What format ?
The video itself is playing in a Flash player (.FLV) format. You can start with any video format – i.e. MPEG, AVI, or other can convert it. A real nice freeware converter can be found at:
http://www.rivavx.de/

2. What do you use for the player ?
Those samples are currently using a WordTube Plugin, which can be found at:
http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=20
I really like this plugin, its very easy to use and you can upload videos directly from Wordpress. Also, it give you stats as well so that you can show sellers how many people visited the video tour. Its under a CCL, so you might want to check other terms with the plugin author. We hope to improve it so that it is specific to real estate.

Just email me anytime if you would like me to get some videos running for your sites or hosted at youraddress.propblogs.com. In fact if you duplicate your sites on both systems, you can increase your web linkage.

Cheers.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ve only had a couple of minutes to look at your site and example sites. They look really nice as well.

I look forward to seeing the features and themes you add to the site in the future. And I’ll have some questions for you like (your video on the sample what format is that in and what do you use for the player?)

Good luck with the new venture.

Great post. Looks like single property sites are pretty popular this week. Your single blog sites are great. They’re very clear and extremely easy to navigate. We just launched http://www.propblogs.com today which provides single property sites using Wordpress, sounds like we’re in the same boat. Can’t wait to learn more about your experiences and would definitely be open to sharing any ideas. And by the way if you need real estate plugins which would help populate your blogs in minutes, you can download them into your blogs at http://www.realiventblog.com. Cheers! Ken