360° virtual tours for real estate photographed in the finished space

A virtual tour in real estate is a set of 360° photographs of a property, linked so that a buyer can move through it on a screen. Each photograph is taken from one spot and shows everything around that spot: the floor, the ceiling and all the walls.

The buyer drags to look around and clicks a marker on the floor to move to the next spot. Some people call this a 3D virtual tour. It is made of photographs, and the buyer moves from point to point. They cannot walk to a spot we did not photograph. For free movement, see an interactive walkthrough.

We photograph the kinds of space listed below. Each has to be finished, clean and lit, because the camera records everything in every direction. There is no angle that hides an unfinished corner. Rooms should be styled as you want buyers to see them before we arrive.

The studio is in Mumbai. For a property elsewhere, tell us where it is. We confirm with the quote whether we can shoot it and what travel would add.

• Sample flats and show flats
• Ready-to-move flats and villas, furnished or bare
• Clubhouses, lobbies and amenity floors
• Offices and co-working floors
• Hotels, serviced apartments and villas for rent
• Showrooms and experience centres

Before the shoot we mark the viewpoints on your floor plan. A viewpoint is one spot where the camera stands. A small flat needs a viewpoint in each room and a few in between, so that each floor marker can be seen from the one before it. A large villa or an amenity floor needs more. This is what we need from you.

• The address and the times we can have access
• A floor plan, or a rough sketch of the rooms
• The rooms and areas to include, and any to leave out
• Lights working, curtains set, rooms cleaned and styled
• Nobody in the rooms while each photograph is taken
• Where the tour will be used: your website, a link, a screen in the sales office

A 360° tour is quoted per viewpoint. The number of viewpoints follows from the size and layout of the space, so a floor plan is enough for us to quote. The quote lists the viewpoints, the revision rounds and the schedule.

Our guide to 360 virtual tour cost in India explains the unit and how to compare two quotations. These are the things that move the price.

• The number of viewpoints
• The number of separate flats or spaces, and whether they are shot in one visit
• Where the property is, and the travel to it
• How much correction the photographs need, such as very bright windows or mirrors

On a project website, the tour sits in the page like a video, and the buyer starts it with a tap. The same tour opens full screen from a link. A sales team can send that link to an enquiry, or open it on a tablet during a call and look around the flat with the buyer.

Buyers in other cities and NRI buyers use it to see the flat before they travel. A broker can add the link to a listing where the portal allows links. A hotel or a villa for rent can put the tour on its booking page, so that guests see the rooms as they are.