Top 3 Advantages of Walk-throughs for Homebuilders

7 March 2022

Manoj Singh

A permanent open house is how some refer to virtual house tours or 3D walk-throughs of a home. What’s not to like about accessing the interiors and exteriors of a house for potential buyers without leaving the comfort of their own homes at any time of the day or night? Before construction commences or sometimes before it completes, walk-throughs help buyers get a feel of the space they may call home one day and experience a sense of ownership.

Yes, there are several advantages that 3D house walk-throughs present for homebuilders, and it’s difficult to pin them down to just 3, but here goes.

1. Promotion & Marketing

Photorealistic renderings can clearly communicate the finer details of home design to prospective home buyers in brochures, flyers, billboards, etc.
3D walk-throughs and animated videos help promote homebuilders across the Internet, social media and through customised DVDs, as a well-designed virtual house tour can be shared easily and often between family and friends across platforms, which in turn will help homebuilders’ walk-throughs or home tours appear higher on web searches.
Homebuilders use walk-throughs to accurately depict the ‘physical environment’ of their house designs.
Walk-through animations with interior and exterior details can help customers make alterations of any design feature or component to best suit their needs before construction.
Walk-throughs can put potential owners’ doubts to rest, helping a fast approval of designs.

2. Saving Money & Time

Travelling from one home to another costs money and time, which can be saved by viewing a walk-through.
Walk-throughs also benefit the current scenario, as during the pandemic and lockdowns, leaving home to view houses may be problematic.
Walk-throughs and virtual house tours eliminate the need to buy expensive furniture and interior props for show houses.
Homebuilders that list their properties online may be inundated with phone calls. Walk-throughs can be viewed by everyone, and the weeding out process of uninterested buyers becomes faster, so that homebuilders then need only deal with those truly interested in making a purchase.

3. Easy Approvals

Home buyers can view the functional, emotional, and personalised features of their property to give their approvals.
Homebuilders can show regulatory authorities that their projects comply with local building codes, standards and regulations with regard to:

1. Structure

2. Hygiene

3. Drainage

4. Energy efficiency

5. Fire safety

6. Toxicity

Detailed rendered images of various views can facilitate timely approvals while saving time for homebuilders.

Thus, photorealistic and accurate 3D walk-throughs can offer a range of benefits for homebuilders, provided they are developed from reliable, high-quality residential architectural renderings and models. To source consistent 3D walk-through services throughout the duration of a homebuilding project, homebuilders from across the world are turning to offshore architectural 3D rendering services and architectural 3D walk-through services with a reputation for quality output.

XS CAD has valuable experience providing architectural 3D walk-through services and architectural 3D rendering services for large homebuilders. Our range of services for global homebuilders, green building developers and property developers include 3D walk-through services, residential architectural renderings and 3D house walk-throughs. We have proven to be a preferred 3D walk-through services provider, due to the high quality of our 3D modelling and 3D walk-throughs, created by using Revit, 3ds Max, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop and After Effects and BIM Collaboration Pro for cloud collaboration.

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