3D Tours for Real Estate Listings in Riverside, CA
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Matterport 3D Tours
With a Matterport 3D tour, buyers can visit the home any time and explore each room on their own. The scan captures the property as one connected experience instead of a series of separate room views. One visit can cover the whole house, which helps keep the media appointment streamlined for the seller.
On site, we place a camera in one spot and let it capture a 360° scan of the room. We do that again and again in each room. Software stitches it all together into a dollhouse view. Then your buyer can spin it around, dive into any room, and get a real feel for how the hallways connect.
Another benefit of Matterport tours is that they keep buyers from getting confused about the layout. This can be something easy to overlook. If a buyer can't tell from photos whether a third bedroom sits off the hall or off the master, you may see out-of-area buyers moving into the Inland Empire stop scrolling and move on to another listing. Out-of-area buyers may not want to fly out just to see a home layout for the first time.
Still, not every listing needs one.
Matterport 3D Tours earn their cost when you need to show how a home's layout works. Older homes in Riverside are a good example. The additions, conversions, and connected rooms found in some Wood Streets or Mission Inn area bungalows may not come through in a plain photo set. A newer neighborhood near Orangecrest is another example, where many similar floor plans repeat down the street. Buyers may benefit from a way to tell them apart.
- Houses with unusual shapes, additions, or split-levels.
- Some homes are so big buyers lose count of the rooms.
- Properties that appeal to out-of-state buyers or those planning to relocate.
- Empty properties, where room size is hard to judge without furniture.
- Investment properties, where investors may prefer an initial remote tour.
We're an insured company, and our drone work is performed by an FAA Part 107 certificated drone pilot, so we can capture drone coverage along with photography in one visit. Staging your home matters more than most people think. Make sure the blinds are up, lights are on, cars are out of the driveway, and personal items are tucked away. The lens catches everything it can see.
One scan. One visit. Listing site complete.
Zillow 3D Tours
Buyers browsing listings on Zillow can open a Zillow 3D tour directly from the property listing. If someone's on their phone at 9pm browsing homes, they can tap into a 3D tour and start moving through your house right there. They don't have to open another tab or download an app. It's simple for them. Zillow states that listings with a Zillow 3D Home tour may receive a visibility boost within Zillow.
What the buyer gets is a panoramic walkthrough of the house, room by room. It shows what normal photos may not: the sense of depth and perspective buyers get while moving through the property. The rooms are stitched together and the buyer clicks through them.
Another common mix-up is the difference between a Matterport tour and a Zillow 3D tour. They're not the same thing. Zillow 3D tours are built for Zillow search feeds and Zillow listing pages. Matterport is the dollhouse view, a measured, dimensional model you can add to any website. We shoot both types. Neither one beats the other. It just depends on what a given listing needs.
If visibility within Zillow is an important part of your listing strategy, a Zillow 3D tour may be worth considering.
- Useful when you want an interactive viewing option alongside the listing's photos and description.
- Helpful for buyers who want to revisit individual rooms before deciding whether to schedule a showing.
- Useful for out-of-area buyers deciding whether an in-person visit makes sense.
- Helpful for older, closed-off Riverside floor plans where a 3D tour may help buyers better understand the layout.
This can be especially useful when marketing mid-century homes in the Wood Streets and Magnolia Center area to buyers who have not toured them in person. They're often built with lots of separate hallways and small rooms, so people assume the house is small. Clicking through the tour can help buyers understand how those rooms connect before deciding whether to visit in person.
Pair a 3D tour with the rest of your listing media and you can give buyers another way to understand the property before deciding whether they want to see it in person. The right choice comes down to how and where you want buyers to experience the listing online.
What's Included in a 3D Tour
The answer depends on what you mean by a 3D tour. When we do one, you get a scanned walkthrough of the home. We visit the property once and deliver next-day.
That scan is assembled into a connected model that shows how the captured rooms and spaces relate to one another. The interactive walkthrough lets buyers explore the home at their own pace. We can scan every room, closets, the garage, and any usable outdoor space.
- A link you can add to your own marketing: Matterport 3D Tour or Zillow 3D Tour.
- An interactive view of the property that helps buyers understand the home before they walk through it.
- Room-by-room navigation that helps buyers revisit additions, converted spaces, or other areas that may be difficult to understand from photos alone.
- The delivered media can then be used as part of your property marketing.
Next-day delivery matters more than agents sometimes realize. A Riverside home listed on MLS on Thursday can catch the weekend traffic. Wait until Monday, and you could have missed a wave of buyers.
Many homes for sale in Riverside, especially near downtown and in the Wood Streets, were built before open floor plans became common, so their layouts can feel a bit unusual to some. You may find additions, narrow hallways, or oddly shaped rooms. Photos may not capture any of that well, so a 3D Tour can help buyers better understand the space.
We can also schedule other media on the same visit as your standard property photography. That means fewer trips for you and fewer times you need to ask the seller to clear out.
Preparing a Listing Before the Scan Appointment
The scan captures the home exactly as it looks, so prep matters even more for 3D tours than for photos. At each spot, the scan captures a full 360-degree view, and anything in the home will show up in the tour. Unlike photos, the view can't be edited to hide a pile of laundry.
Send this list to the seller two days ahead, not the morning of the shoot.
- Open all interior doors, including closets, pantries, and the garage. Skipping this can leave gaps and dead ends in the tour.
- Turn on all lights and keep blinds at the same height throughout the house. Uneven lighting shows up clearly in a walkthrough.
- Clear counters, nightstands, and dresser tops. Personal photos, medication, and mail will otherwise be captured.
- Empty the driveway and garage of vehicles, and move trash cans out of view.
- Crate pets or move them off site, and remove litter boxes, pet bowls, and toys before the appointment.
- For a casita, ADU, or patio, unlock the side gates and any outside entry doors ahead of time.
People and pets can present a challenge on site. If someone or something crosses the room mid-scan, we get a blur and may have to rescan that spot. Keeping the space clear during scanning helps the appointment move more smoothly from room to room.
One tip for Riverside properties: we may find an addition or converted garage that was never on the original plans. If those spaces are an important part of the listing, they should be accessible so we can include them in the completed tour. Sellers may overlook unlocking converted garages or additions, so it helps to remind them ahead of time.
Even an empty home is worth checking the day before. Flyers, loose paper, or leftover equipment can turn up. Sometimes a contractor leaves a ladder behind.
A final walkthrough before the appointment helps make sure each space is ready to capture when we arrive.
Bundling 3D Tours With Other Listing Media
Tip: book your 3D tour on the same visit as your other media. Agents quickly learn this is most efficient, since the seller only has to stage and clean once, and there's only one delivery date to plan around for launch.
The only downside is a bit more time on site, but photos and 3D tours need mostly the same prep: lights on, blinds prepped, clutter cleared, cars out of the driveway. Since we're already there, adding a 3D tour and other media to the visit can be simple.
A good pairing doesn't come from a package chart. It comes from what each piece of media actually does well.
- Drone photography and drone video may work well for hillside or lot-heavy properties, where a 3D tour can't show how the house sits on the land.
- A twilight shot makes a strong hero image, but it can't show interiors. Pair it with a 3D tour to fill that gap.
- A vertical, fast-paced walkthrough reel suits social media, while the 3D tour is where buyers can slow down and look closely at the property.
- If you digitally furnish empty rooms, maybe add a floor plan too, so buyers understand the estimated scale of the space.
Not sure what you need? No problem. You can add other products when you book, in just a couple of clicks. Order everything at once, and for standard media it can be delivered all at once. Since everything from the visit arrives the next day, you can build your listing in one pass instead of adding pieces as they trickle in.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How fast can I get my 3D tour back after the shoot?
You'll get next-day delivery on your 3D tour. If we shoot your Riverside listing on a weekday, you may be able to have it loaded in time to catch weekend buyer traffic. Waiting even a few days can mean missing a wave of showings. Once the files are ready, you'll receive the order ready for use in your listing marketing.
What should I do to prepare my home before a 3D scan?
Staging matters more than most people think before a scan. Raise the blinds, turn on all the lights, move cars out of the driveway, and put away personal items. The camera picks up everything in its path, so a cluttered closet or messy counter shows up in the tour. Taking twenty minutes to walk through and tidy each room makes a real difference in how polished your finished walkthrough looks.
Is a Matterport 3D tour different from a Zillow 3D tour?
Yes, they're built for different purposes. A Matterport tour creates a measured dollhouse view you can add to a website or marketing material, while a Zillow 3D tour is a panoramic walkthrough made specifically for Zillow's search feed and listing pages. Neither one is better outright. It depends on your goal. If you want more prominence in the Zillow feed, a Zillow 3D tour may be a better fit.
Which Riverside homes benefit most from a 3D tour?
Many types of homes benefit from a 3D tour, including homes with unusual layouts, renovations, upgrades, and standout features. Older bungalows in the Wood Streets and Mission Inn area may have additions, converted porches, and connected rooms that may not read well in photos alone. Newer neighborhoods near Orangecrest may also benefit, since many floor plans repeat down the street and buyers may want to see how homes with similar layouts are set up. Empty and investment properties are good candidates too, since room size may be hard to judge without furniture.
Why do some older Riverside homes look smaller in photos than they really are?
Older Riverside floor plans, especially mid-century homes in the Wood Streets and Magnolia Center area, were often built with separate hallways and smaller individual rooms. Photos of these closed-off layouts can make a house feel cramped even when the total square footage is generous. A 3D tour may help to quickly clear up that wrong first impression by clicking through the rooms, showing buyers how the spaces connect.
What exactly is included when I book a 3D tour?
You get a shareable 3D walkthrough created from scans captured throughout the property. We can include rooms, closets, the garage, and usable outdoor spaces when accessible, giving buyers a connected view they can explore online at their own pace.