Drones takes real estate to new heights.

For real estate agents trying to show how beautiful a home is, photos used to be enough. Then came videos and full-blown websites dedicated to a house. Now come the drones.

Small, unmanned helicopters with video cameras that are operated remotely are becoming more popular in real estate listings. Unlike a video of a home from ground level, the flying drones can show a house from the sky and almost give the video the feeling that a movie is being filmed there as the drone flies over treetops and gives a panoramic view.

It's also a way to see the surrounding property, such as local parks, beaches and how far the property are from local shops as well as giving potential buyers a good look at the immediate neighbourhood.

Once reserved for luxury-home listings, high-definition aerial photos and videos are becoming more and more normal even for moderately priced real-estate and rentals due to the increasing availability of drones.

While drones can now be purchased for a few hundred dollars, they don’t have the quality or the sophistication of our drones. At Rossee.com we use DJI Phantom Drones that shoots high-definition video and has GPS and Wi-Fi. Stabilizers keep the drone camera steady in high wind. Controls on the remote allow the pilot to move the camera angle. Best of all it shoots video from high above a home, showing everything from the rooftop to backyard views. The drone soars to heights up to 1,500 feet and can be operated with the remote control from up to 2,000 feet away.

Some statistics.

Video is 53 times more likely to generate a first page Google ranking over content. It has a 41 percent higher click-through rate on universal results pages, and keeps visitors on a websites six times longer. 73 percent of sellers say they are more likely to list with an agent who uses video.

First we fly, then we produce.

One thing is to get the drone up there to record the raw video. Another thing is to make it look good. That is where the post-production comes into play. All our videos has been through the post-production process before we deliver the final result to our clients.