Create an Immersive Experience for Home Buyers With a Clickable Floor Plan That Lets Them View Rooms in the Context of the Overall Floor Plan.
As acquiring and selling listings becomes more challenging in the current market, agents need cutting edge tools to stay competitive. Leveraging the latest media technology, like interactive floor plans and virtual tours, can make listings come to life while giving prospective buyers an immersive viewing experience.
Interactive floor plans with photo orientation, available as part of the ShowingTime+ technology suite, offer an obvious advantage in attracting shoppers by providing a clearer view of the home and its room-to-room flow.
Interactive floor plans are so important in the modern marketplace that, according to Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report 2022, 70% of sellers confirmed they’re more likely to hire an agent who includes virtual tours or interactive plans in their services.1 In addition, Zillow Group internal research collected May-December 2022 shows homes with a virtual tour listed online were saved 78% more often than homes without an interactive floor plan.2
70%
of sellers confirmed they’re more likely to hire an agent who includes virtual tours or interactive floor plans in their services.
(Source: Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report, 2022)
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Upgrading the appeal of your listings with interactive floor plans is now simple and affordable as part of Listing Media Services’ fast, reliable and professional real estate photography and rich media packages.
Unlike other virtual tours that don’t orient the viewer to the room’s context within the home, Listing Media Services’ interactive floor plans integrate with the virtual tour, allowing viewers to click anywhere on the floor plan and watch as high-res photographs of the selected rooms bring the listing to life.
As buyers click around the floor plan, they can see not only where they are in the home, but also from which direction and location the image was taken. Utilizing the latest in AI, interactive floor plans are automatically generated from the photos taken of the home by Listing Media Services’ professional photographers. In other words, there’s nothing you have to do after booking the package online.
Best of all, agents can order interactive floor plans and all Listing Media Services’ photography and rich media using a fast, reliable scheduling tool with fast turnaround times.
Once completed, the interactive floor plans are then automatically syndicated to Zillow, Redfin and select MLS sites. Listings with interactive floor plans also receive specialized exposure and unique filters in search results on Zillow and Trulia.
In today’s challenging market, interactive floor plans offer listing agents a great way to differentiate themselves and bring their listings to life, with a hands-on experience that enables buyers to explore the home simply by clicking on the floor plan to change views and images.
Rich media listings are quickly becoming mandatory for sellers looking to hire agents, and many first-time home sellers see interactive floor plans as essential to the sale of their property. According to Zillow Research, nearly 2 in 5 (39%) recent first-time sellers think they could have gotten a higher sale price if their listing had included better photos and media. And 1 in 4 (25%) say a virtual home tour would have boosted their bottom lines.
Interactive floor plans are available as part of the Listing Media Services offering within the ShowingTime+ suite of tools. Adding interactive floor plans as part of a media package is quick and takes away the guesswork, removing complicated processes that have historically been part of adding enriched media to a listing.
Agents only need to click on the easy online order form, provide the address and square footage of their listing, select the Essentials or Premium package, then book one of our local photographers - based on their real-time availability - on the form. Agents may receive all listing media back as soon as the next business day after the photoshoot.
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1 Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report, 2022
2 Data collected May-December 2022
3 Defined as Americans who sold a home they owned for the first time within the past two years
4 This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Zillow November 9–11, 2022. The group surveyed comprised 2,069 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, among whom 110 sold a home they owned for the first time within the past two years. The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within +/- 2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level.
FAQs
What is an Interactive Floor Plan? An interactive floor plan (IFP) is a digital structural option selection aid and space planning tool that home builders use to sell new construction homes.
What is interactive floor plan? ›
Interactive floor plans are used inside your mobile event app, playing a crucial role in amplifying event engagement. They transform a simple, static floor plan so that participants can find what they want in a more immersive and engaging way.
What are the 4 types of floor plans? ›
There are four basic types of floor plans: open floor plans, closed floor plans, modular floor plans, and hybrid floor plans. Open floor plans are perfect for families who want to be able to interact with each other while they are cooking or relaxing in the living room.
What are the three main types of floor plans and what is their unique purpose? ›
Types of Floor Plans
There are three main ways to create the layout of a house and convey the information homebuyers want to know: 2D Floor Plans. 3D Floor Plans. Live 3D Floor Plans.
What is the difference between a floor plan and a floor layout? ›
A furniture or appliance plan, or layout, shows the locations of items relative to each other in a specific space. The walls will be “diagrammatic"..just as a line. In a floor plan, the locations are measured, and the utility locations and surrounding construction is shown.
How do interactive floors work? ›
The projectors will deliver the content and the infrared lights and cameras sense the movement and interaction from someone standing on the surface. Then, the computer program that engages with this information will alter the projection accordingly.
What is the difference between a floor plan and a furniture plan? ›
basically in a floor plan we focus on showing measurements and specifications of walls, floors, windows, doors & other openings whereas in a furniture layout plan we focus on annotating the furniture, their dimensions, specifications, spacings between each other and from walls and openings (as required).
What are the two main types of floor plans? ›
There are two main types of floor plans, 2D and 3D floor plans. A 2D floor plan can be a sketch or a computer drawing. 2D means that a house plan is “flat”, there are only 2 dimensions, length and width. On the other hand, a 3D floor plan is a diagram that provides you with a detailed illustration of a home layout.
What is the most common type of floor plan? ›
Standard Floor Plans
The most common type of floor plan is the Standard Floor Plan. These images are a basic sketch of the home in black and white (or taupe colourization) displaying the outline of walls, doors, windows, and stairs.
What does m mean on a floor plan? ›
Single door. A single-hinged door is represented by a straight line that runs perpendicular to the wall and a curved line to indicate which way it opens. Double door. The double door symbol looks like the letter “M,” made from two curved lines that join in the center.
Important Factors to Consider When Choosing a Floor Plan
- Utilize Space Effectively.
- Accessibility.
- Flexibility.
- Functionality.
- Maximize the Use of Natural Light.
- Lifestyle.
- Cost.
- Storage.
Name the 11 basic features commonly found on a floor plan. Exterior & interior walls; size & location of windows & doors; built-in cabinets & appliances; permanent fixtures; stairs; fireplaces; walks, patios, & decks; room names; material symbols; location & size dimensions; & scale.
What should a floor plan not include? ›
The typical plan set does not include any plumbing, heating or air conditioning drawings due to the wide variety of local codes and climatic conditions. These details and specifications are easily obtained from your builder, contractor, and/or local suppliers.
What is a conceptual floor plan? ›
A Conceptual/Layout Plan is similar in scope to Design-on-the-Fly, but more refined in quality: a “cleaner” drawing and a more resolved design solution due to the additional time spent considering the space.
What are house floor plans called? ›
A house plan is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
What is the main purpose of a floor plan? ›
Floor plans are scale drawings that show the relationship between rooms, spaces and physical features viewed from above. They provide a way to visualize how people will move through the space.
What is the purpose of a floor plan? ›
A floor plan is a bird's eye view diagram of a home or property. Its purpose is to illustrate the design of the property and it therefore includes structural and design details such as walls, windows, doors and stairs as well as fixed kitchen appliances and bathroom fittings.
What is the meaning of floor plan? ›
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
How do I create a digital floor plan? ›
How to create a floor plan
- Open Canva. Launch Canva and choose Whiteboards to get started on your floor plan design.
- Choose a floor plan template. Browse our collection of floor plan templates and choose your preferred style or theme. ...
- Customize your floor plan. ...
- Add the finishing touches. ...
- Save, share, or present.
