Oh dear. Oh dear me. Oh good grief!

It has been a while since I featured one of my favorite “worst real estate video on youtube.” Mainly because everyone seemed to be doing the same thing: Not using a tripod, moving around while speaking to the camera, not tidying the house, not lighting the home correctly, or some other similar mistake. This video is the first one I have come across that manages to completely mangle the idea of a luxury walkthrough video, while at the same time doing what appears to be the correct things. Take a look and see what you think. Oh dear……

A few adjustments, such as hiring a professional videographer, bothering to edit the resulting video, not allowing the viewer to feel ill every time the camera switches focus……. I can’t go on. Needless to say, this video has been up on youtube since April of this year, and has been viewed 553 times. I am sure the husband of the realtor got a kick out of trying out his new video camera, but still. “You have these luxury light fittings,” violent upward shift of the camera as husband realises it needs to be pointing at the ceiling……

Real estate videos do not have to be and should not be this awful. It does not cost millions of dollars to produce a decent video, and I do believe that producing a video this poor is worse than not producing one at all. And to calm your stomach after watching that last one, here is a gentle, soothing high-quality video. The Zen Mansion by Luxury Film.

This week’s winner nearly didn’t make it because I think I may already have a few out-of-focus slide shows in my collection of worst youtube real estate videos. This luxury home in Hollywood hills is listed at $17.5 million. Watch the video, then see if you agree with my assessment:

Presumably, they are looking for movie-industry buyers. I wonder if a typical movie executive watches real estate videos on youtube. I will not be staying up nights worrying about it, because I am fairly sure I know the answer. So, the first question is - why bother?

This video has more cheeps than a box full of newly-hatched chickens. The real estate agent looks cheap, the property looks cheap, and the venue is extremely cheap. It is a seventeen million dollar property, yet this is a slide show taken from still photographs?

The only one involved who doesn’t end up looking cheap is the company that produced it, Avanti films. I imagine they tried their hardest to persuade the agent to let them do a decent job, but with a budget of about fifty bucks, this is not too bad, and some of their other work is excellent. Although, the only thing I like about this one is the background music. Very Hollywood epic

This week’s worst youtube real estate video is courtesy of The Sri Lankan Lion. Yet another horrible slide show purporting to sell luxury homes in Sri Lanka.

Quite apart from the horrible slide show, this one demonstrates an extremely poor choice of background music. Unless you are marketing an MTV “crib,” to would-be rap music moguls, I would have thought that using rap music as a backdrop for luxury real estate videos was a big no-no. The opening words,

All a n***** really need is a little bit, not a lot b*** girl, just a little bit

were enough to persuade me I had this week’s winner. Segway into a variety of poor quality Indian and American rap music throughout. * shudder * . But maybe it is just me? Comments welcome.

This week’s worst youtube real estate video is a luxury apartment in Singapore’s Orchard Residences. All in all, not the absolute worst real estate video we have featured. It is short, to the point and thank goodness - whoever shot it took my advice and bought themselves a tripod.

With a mechanical pan facility judging from the incredibly annoying tick, whirr, tick, click of the mechanism which is the only sound on this video. How hard can it be to find and add a suitable soundtrack?

At least it is not a slide show

Yet another slide show is this week’s featured worst youtube real estate video. A bad slide show. No editing whatsoever as far as I can tell. Just a quick jump from one out-of-focus photograph to another.

And just a few little details left out – such as where exactly this house is, how much it costs or who is selling it. The kind of details you might think were worth including on a “Treasure Lake Real Estate Homes For Sale,” video. No attempt has been made to do anything with this video. Not even a sound track added.
Which actually brings me to another question about real estate videos posted to youtube. I did find a few recently with what I consider to be good backing music. But then I had a thought – Who owns that music? Did the real estate agent go to the trouble of asking and paying for permission to use a piece of music by Sting, for instance? I wonder if Mr. Sting knows his music is being used to sell a million-dollar plus home? I wonder if he wants a cut? Knowing Sting, I suspect the answer is yes.

I also love these two guys – they are sooooo bad, they are funny. Does sex sell real estate? Silly question really.

Beethoven’s symphony No.#3 in E-Flat Major was not written to be a backdrop for a poorly produced real estate video. And would some one pleeeese tell me why so many of the horrible videos I find on YouTube are slideshows. Seriously, what is it with the slideshows? And if you are going to do a slideshow, at least have the slides of the property - I mean, who on earth is the woman in the fourth slide? Is that the realtor? If so, for goodness’ sake, go find a new photographer while you are out hiring a videographer. And advertising it as “NY $625,000 Price Drop,” kind of gives the impression the price has been dropped by that much. Which it hasn’t. Current count of YouTube videos tagged “real estate” - 31,000