When a listing has drone footage, is that real information or just a commercial
Screening properties from a distance means noticing which listings come with aerial footage and how much weight it deserves. The case for treating it as real information: a rural listing's aerial can show a drainage cut running diagonally across the back half of a parcel, or a gravel access that clearly crosses a neighbor's field. Neither shows up in the description or the ground photos. That is screening data worth paying for. The case for treating it as gloss: it is marketing, shot by someone the seller hired, with every angle chosen. The same aerial that reveals a drainage problem never points at whatever sits 200 feet to the west. On a suburban listing, the aerial is often 15 seconds of roofline at golden hour with a hard cut before the camera turns toward the arterial road. Both things can be true at once, a free site visit half the time and a curated angle the other half. Worth hearing from anyone who has flown these or bought off them.
Aerial footage in a listing, what's it worth when you're screening remotely?
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