360 Virtual Tours for Build-to-Rent Leasing
A build-to-rent 360 tour is a self-serve asset that lives on your listing and your website, letting a prospect walk a home type at midnight without an agent. Cover the distinct home types rather than every address, plus the amenity spaces and the street approach. If the community is not built yet, the tour is rendered from the model rather than photographed, which changes the inputs completely.
Build-to-rent competes with single family rentals that have photographs, so the bar is a tour that answers the layout question without a phone call.
That is the everyday job 360 virtual tours do here, and it starts before the first home is delivered.
Home types, not addresses
A community with five layouts needs five tours. Shooting or rendering every address multiplies cost with no gain, because a prospect chooses a layout and then chooses a location on a site plan.
Where addresses genuinely differ is orientation, garden size and outlook, and those belong on the site plan next to the tour rather than in another twenty tours.
Cover the outside, not just the inside
Renters choosing a house are choosing a street and a front door. A tour that begins inside the entry skips the part that separates your community from an apartment.
Include the approach from the street, the front door, the garden and the view from the main living window. These are also the panoramas that hold attention longest.
Amenity is what justifies the rent premium
The clubhouse, pool, coworking room and dog run are the reason a managed community charges more than the house down the road, and they are usually finished after the first homes are leasing. Rendered panoramas cover that gap and get replaced with photography once the spaces open.
What we need and what you get
| What you supply | What we deliver | Typical turnaround band |
|---|---|---|
| Model or drawings for each distinct home type | A linked panorama set per home type | Scoped per type, not per home |
| Finish package per type | Interiors built to that package | Gates the render if unsettled |
| Site plan with orientation and garden extents | Street approach, front door and garden panoramas | Built with the interior set |
| Amenity drawings and program | Amenity panoramas, replaceable with photography later | Usually a second phase |
| Your website and listing platforms | Embed code and links that work on each | At delivery |
| What is standard versus upgrade | Upgrades labeled inside the tour | Written, before render |
| Who owns the tour after handover | A named contact for updates and a written update process | At handover |
The mistake that costs leases
Publishing a rendered tour without saying it is rendered. Renters who arrive expecting the depicted finish and find a different one do not just leave; they say so publicly.
Label rendered panoramas plainly, and swap them for photography as homes complete. Nobody objects to a rendering that admits it is one.
Where it fits against a walkthrough video
The tour is self-serve and answers layout questions. A walkthrough video is for advertising and social, where nobody will click through panoramas. Most communities need both eventually, and the tour is usually the one that reduces unqualified visits.
If you are leasing before delivery, send your home type schedule and we will scope by type.
How to start
Count home types, confirm the finish package, and tell us which listing platforms the tour has to work on.
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Send us the home types and your lease-up date and we will come back with a scope.