Video, 360 and virtual tours

Rental virtual tour

Short lets turn over constantly and long lets run for years. A 360 tour serves both, for different reasons, from the same capture.

Who it is for
Managers of short-term, vacation and long-term rentals.
Built from
360 photos taken during a routine inspection.
Second life
The same images stay available as dated condition evidence.

Two jobs, one capture

Whether you value a rental virtual tour for filtering out less than serious prospects, for meeting high demand with few showing agents on staff, or for avoiding disruption to people currently living there, it earns its place before you consider anything else.

For property management and short and long term vacation rentals, the tour has largely taken the place of the initial walkthrough. It does the same filtering job, costs a fraction as much to produce, and makes an otherwise static listing something a prospective renter will spend real time inside.

Produced from inspection work you were doing anyway

With zInspector you take your own 360 photos while performing an inspection and reuse them to create a tour. It is a cost-effective way to get more out of the inspection time and equipment you have already committed to, particularly if those tools are already in the van.

  1. 01Capture during the inspection360 images taken room by room as part of the normal walkthrough, not as a separate visit.
  2. 02Assemble the tourBuild the walkable tour from those captures inside zInspector.
  3. 03Publish with the listingAdd it to the advert so enquiries arrive from people who have already seen the layout.
  4. 04Keep it as evidenceMonths later the same 360s show exactly how the property looked on that date.

Why short-term lets benefit most

The higher the turnover, the more times a single capture pays for itself. A vacation rental that changes occupants weekly gets marketing value from the tour and condition documentation from the same images, repeatedly, without anyone going back to shoot it again.

For the leasing-focused version of this, see the rental listing virtual tour.

Common questions

Does it work for a furnished short-term let?

Particularly well. Furnished properties are harder to describe in text and photographs, and a 360 walkthrough answers the layout questions guests actually have.

How often should I recapture?

Whenever the property changes materially, which usually means after redecoration or a furniture change. Otherwise the capture from your last inspection remains current.

Can the tour double as move-in evidence?

The images are captured within an inspection, so they sit in the property record with a date attached. That makes them useful well beyond the marketing period.

One capture, two jobs

Shoot a rental in 360 on your next inspection and publish the tour from it.