Virtual walkthrough & style switching
Walk every unit, then swap the finish with a click.
Buyers move through a 360° walkthrough of the apartment, using any provider you choose, and where more than one interior style has been uploaded, switch between them from inside the tour to compare finishes in place.
Two buyers can look at the same apartment and want completely different things from it. One pictures warm oak and matte black. The other wants everything pale and minimal. A walkthrough that only shows one finish makes half your audience squint and try to imagine the rest, which is exactly where interest starts to drift.
This page covers two things that work together but are worth understanding separately. First, the virtual walkthrough itself: buyers move through the apartment in 360°, using whichever walkthrough provider you already work with. Second, style switching: where you've uploaded more than one interior style for a unit, buyers can swap between them from inside the tour, room by room, and compare on the spot instead of imagining the alternative.
Bring the walkthrough you already have, or build one natively
You are not tied to one way of producing a virtual walkthrough. Embed a Matterport or Kuula scene you or your studio has already created, or connect any other online-based 3D walkthrough tool the same way. If you would rather not rely on a third-party host, upload your own 360° images directly into YourNextHome and connect them into a guided tour natively, no external account required.
Either way, the walkthrough sits on the apartment page exactly where a buyer expects it, alongside the floor plan, pricing, and documents for that unit.
If a unit doesn't have a walkthrough yet, buyers simply don't see a walkthrough button. There's no broken link, no placeholder, and no empty state to stumble into. As soon as you add one, whether that's an embed or a native upload, the button appears automatically the next time a buyer opens that apartment.
What style switching actually is
Style switching is what happens when a unit has more than one interior style uploaded. It's a genuinely simple idea once you see it in action, so it's worth being precise about the mechanics.
You upload two or more separate 360° sets for the same unit, one set per style or finish package, for example a "Classic" scheme and a "Contemporary" one, or however you name your own packages. Each set covers the same rooms as the base tour, just finished differently. Buyers open the walkthrough as normal, and from a control inside the 360° viewer itself, they switch styles while touring. The scene they're currently standing in swaps for the matching scene from the other style set, so a buyer comparing the kitchen in Style A sees the same kitchen, from the same position, in Style B. There's no restart and no loss of place.
This is not a live render and nothing is being generated on the fly. Each style is a complete, pre-made 360° set already uploaded. The switch inside the viewer is simply choosing which finished set to display, which is what keeps it instant and reliable. It's also why the feature currently works with native 360° uploads rather than embedded third-party tours: an embedded Matterport or Kuula scene lives outside YourNextHome, so there's no matching alternate scene for the viewer to swap in. There's no cap on how many style variants a unit can have.
What buyers can do
Why this earns its place
A buyer who has to imagine a finish they haven't seen is a buyer who hesitates. Letting them stand in the room and flip between two real options removes that hesitation directly, and naturally surfaces your premium package as something to compare rather than something to be told about. It also means one walkthrough serves buyers with different tastes instead of forcing a single finish choice on all of them, or forcing your team to produce and maintain entirely separate apartment pages per package.
What it takes to set up
Style switching doesn't remove the work of producing each finish option, and it's worth being upfront about that. Each style you offer still needs its own complete 360° set, whether that's rendered from your studio's 3D files for an off-plan unit, or captured on site for a finished show unit. What YourNextHome removes is the duplication after that: you upload each style once, and buyers can compare them inside the same tour, on the same apartment page, without you rebuilding anything or maintaining separate listings per finish.
Because style switching relies on matching native 360° sets, it's built for units where you upload the walkthrough directly into YourNextHome. If your main walkthrough for a unit is an embedded Matterport or Kuula tour, that specific tour won't have style switching available, since the alternate styles need to live natively alongside it. Many developers use embeds for units where one finish is enough, and native uploads specifically for the units where showing multiple finish options matters most.
Your content, your choice
You decide how each walkthrough gets made and who makes it. Use your own team, any studio you already work with, or one of our content partners. Embed an existing Matterport or Kuula tour if that's what you have, or upload your own 360° images if you want native hosting or style switching. YourNextHome presents the result either way, and your imagery always stays yours.
What is virtual walkthrough & style switching?
It's a 360° walkthrough of an apartment that buyers move through on the apartment page, with an optional extra: where a developer has uploaded more than one interior style for a unit, buyers can switch between them from inside the tour and compare finishes in place.
Which virtual tour providers does YourNextHome support?
Any online-based 3D walkthrough tool can be embedded, including Matterport and Kuula. You can also upload your own 360° images directly into YourNextHome and connect them into a guided tour without an external provider.
Can I upload my own 360° images instead of using Matterport or Kuula?
Yes. Uploading your own 360° images natively is fully supported, and it's required if you want to use style switching on that unit.
What happens if I haven't added a virtual walkthrough for a unit yet?
Buyers won't see a walkthrough button at all for that unit. There's no broken link or empty placeholder. The button appears automatically as soon as a walkthrough is added.
What is style switching, exactly?
It's a control inside the 360° viewer that lets a buyer swap the current scene for the matching scene from a different, pre-uploaded interior style, without leaving the tour or losing their position.
Does style switching work with Matterport or Kuula tours?
Not currently. Style switching needs matching native 360° sets uploaded directly into YourNextHome, since an embedded third-party tour has no alternate scene for the viewer to swap in. Use native uploads for any unit where you want buyers to compare finishes.
How many style variants can a unit have?
As many as you upload. There's no cap.
Where does the buyer switch styles from?
From a control inside the 360° viewer itself, while they're touring the unit, not from a separate page or menu.
Does switching styles reset the buyer's position in the tour?
No. Switching swaps the current scene for the matching scene in the other style, so the buyer stays in the same room, looking at the same view, just finished differently.
Do I need to produce separate content for every style?
Yes. Each style is a complete 360° set, produced however you already create your walkthroughs, rendered for off-plan units or captured on site for finished ones. YourNextHome removes the need to duplicate apartment pages per style, not the need to produce the content itself.
Can different unit types share the same styles?
Style sets are uploaded per unit, so each apartment has its own. If your finish packages are consistent across a unit type, for example every two-bedroom layout, your studio can produce and upload the same packages for each of them.
How long does it take to get a project live?
Days, not months. You hand over the drawings, renders and unit data you already have for the development, and we handle the build — you review a working viewer rather than starting from a blank brief.
Do we need developers or technical staff to use it?
No. Everything is run from a dashboard built for sales and marketing teams — inventory, pricing, media and copy are all managed without touching code. Connecting a custom domain or embedding the viewer is the most technical it gets, and both are guided steps.
Can we match our own branding and use our own domain?
Yes. Viewers carry your logo, colours and typography, and each project can be served from your own domain or subdomain, so buyers stay on your brand from first click to enquiry.
Can we update content ourselves after launch?
Yes. Availability, prices, media and copy are all editable from the dashboard and go live immediately — no redeploy and no waiting on us to publish changes.
How is it priced?
You pay per project on a monthly or yearly plan, so cost tracks what you are actively selling rather than a flat platform fee. Pricing is public — the current rates are on the pricing page.
Who owns the leads and buyer data?
You do. Every enquiry and engagement signal a buyer generates is yours — visible in the dashboard and exportable. The platform never sits between you and your prospects.