131 Wilby Dr. Sold 5% Over List on the $395 Drone Tour Package
$698K list, $735,000 sold in 19 days. Sardis Hills on the baseline package. No photos, no aerials, no floor plan.
Listed January 30, 2026 at $698,000. Sold February 18 at $735,000, $37,000 over list, 105% of ask, 19 days total.
The package was Drone Tour. $395. An MLS-cut FPV interior tour plus a 60-second social cut. No photos, no aerials, no floor plan. It is the cheapest product OSDT offers.
The listing
131 Wilby Dr is in Sardis Hills, a SE Charlotte neighborhood of mid-sized ’70s and ’80s single-families inside the Arboretum / Providence corridor. Core family-move-in tier; buyers stepping up from townhomes and condos, frequent repeat-agent territory.
Sardis Hills listings in 2025 averaged 31 DOM at 98.4% of list. This listing priced at the top of the band.
What the shoot covered
Bobby Sisk (Nestlewood Realty, one of Charlotte’s top-5 producing agents in 2025) booked the Drone Tour only. One FPV walkthrough, one social cut. Photography was handled separately. MLS photos were standard ground-level shots, no HDR, no aerials.
That matters for the comparison. The FPV tour was the only piece of differentiated media on the listing. If the listing outperformed comps, the attribution is narrower than it would be on a full-package shoot.
The performance
Under contract within roughly 10 days. Closed February 18 at $735,000.
Most Sardis Hills homes sell at or slightly under list. The 2025 neighborhood average was 98.4% of list. 131 Wilby closed at 105.3%.
What else contributed
Pricing was set to invite activity, not low, but competitive for a brick single-family with a finished basement. Sisk’s buyer reach is significant; top-5 agents in the Charlotte market move inventory differently than mid-tier agents at the same price point. And the January–February Charlotte window was a seller’s market by a thin margin.
The media’s contribution is narrow but specific: every buyer who clicked through the MLS listing watched a walkthrough of the house before calling for a showing. That filter cut time-wasters, concentrated showings on real buyers, and gave the offer stack shape faster.
What this shows
This is the case for the $395 Drone Tour as a baseline add, not full media, just the walkthrough. On a mid-tier Charlotte single-family where MLS photos already exist, the FPV tour is the incremental signal that changes the close window. 105% of list on the cheapest package is the clearest price-per-dollar argument OSDT has.
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