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Matterport 3D scanning, bespoke 360° tours, and Google Street View — for residential, commercial, hospitality, and heritage clients. UK-wide coverage, overseas on request.
Matterport & 360 Virtual Tours in Winchester & Hampshire
Tours for Hampshire professional firms, independent schools, wedding venues and care homes. A completed Winchester project on this page, with travel included in the price.
Most people assume a virtual tour is a marketing tool for selling a building. In Hampshire, a good share of the tours I have been asked to build were not that at all. Professional firms in Winchester, Southampton and Basingstoke commission them for client reassurance and for recruitment, because a client attending a difficult meeting arrives calmer having already seen reception, and a graduate choosing between two practices is quietly judging the working environment. Care homes commission them because the family member making the decision often lives two hundred miles away. Schools commission them because a family cannot always get to an open day. In each case the building is not for sale, so the tour has to do something more useful than look impressive.
The clearest example on this page is Trethowans in Winchester, a multi-floor solicitors' office I built as a bespoke 360 tour rather than a platform-hosted scan. The firm owns it outright, it carries their branding, and there is no annual hosting invoice attached to it. The multi-floor layout is the reason the bespoke format won: moving a visitor from reception up to a meeting suite is something you design, not something you leave a viewer to work out. This work sits within my virtual tour services across the UK, and Hampshire is a straightforward run from Somerset.
The scheduling matters more than the equipment. Offices are normally scanned early in the morning, over lunch or at the weekend, so desks are clear, screens are off and nobody appears in the finished tour. Care homes are worked around residents entirely, room by room, and nothing is scanned while it is occupied. Wedding venues are best shot dressed rather than empty, because a bare barn tells a couple very little. None of that costs more, it simply has to be decided when the date is booked rather than discovered on the day.
If you are weighing up whether a tour is worth commissioning, the honest test is whether it removes work. For a professional firm it reduces the number of nervous first visits and gives recruitment something concrete to show. For a care home it means the enquiry that would have taken three phone calls of questions about layout takes one. For a Hampshire wedding venue it means fewer viewings by couples who were never going to book, and better-informed ones from couples who will.
Who Uses Virtual Tours in Hampshire?
Six types of Hampshire client who commission this work, and the specific problem a tour solves for each.
Professional services & law firms
Solicitors, accountants and consultancies rarely commission a tour to sell a building, because they are not selling one. They commission it because a client walking into an unfamiliar office for a difficult meeting arrives calmer if they have already seen the reception, and because a graduate deciding between two firms judges the working environment as much as the salary. My bespoke 360 tour of Trethowans in Winchester was built for both audiences.
Offices & multi-floor workspace
Hampshire office stock is often older buildings converted floor by floor, which is exactly the situation a tour handles better than a photograph. A viewer can move between levels and understand how a first-floor meeting suite relates to a ground-floor reception, instead of trying to assemble that from a gallery of disconnected rooms.
Independent schools & sixth forms
Hampshire and the surrounding counties have a dense independent and boarding sector recruiting nationally and internationally. A tour lets a family walk a boarding house, a dining hall and a science block before an open day they may not be able to attend, and it keeps working between open days rather than only on them.
Hotels & wedding venues
A couple booking a Hampshire wedding venue is trying to picture a day that does not exist yet, and a barn or an orangery photographs beautifully without ever explaining how the rooms connect. A tour answers the practical questions, where guests arrive, where the ceremony sits relative to the bar, how the space works if it rains.
Care homes & retirement living
Care decisions are usually made under pressure, often by a family member living some distance away. A tour lets that person see a lounge, a corridor and a bedroom without an emotional trip, and it removes the sense that something is being hidden. Tours are scanned when residents are elsewhere, so nobody appears in the finished model.
Property marketing across Hampshire
Winchester, Alresford and the villages along the Itchen attract buyers relocating from London and further afield, which means a significant share of first viewings happen on a screen. A Matterport scan with a floorplan and a measurement tool does more for a relocating buyer than another set of stills.
Several of those sectors have their own pages with more detail on how the shoots are run: commercial photography, education virtual tours, care home photography, hotel photography and wedding venue photography.
Hampshire Tours I Have Built
A completed Winchester project you can walk through below.
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Bespoke 360, professional servicesTrethowans Solicitors, Winchester — A bespoke 360 tour of Trethowans' multi-floor Winchester offices, built as a branded tour rather than a platform-hosted scan so the firm owns it outright with no annual hosting cost. It is used for client reassurance and recruitment as much as for marketing the space, and the multi-floor navigation was the reason the bespoke format was chosen over Matterport.
Virtual Tour Pricing in Hampshire
The same prices I charge anywhere in the UK, with travel to Hampshire included rather than added later.
Matterport 3D
From £249
Hosting £99/year after year one
- Accurate lidar 3D scan
- Dollhouse & floorplan views
- Measurement tool
- Rightmove & Zoopla compatible
- Fast to produce
Bespoke 360
From £449
No hosting fees, you own it outright
- Custom branded interface
- Interactive hotspots & video
- Handles multi-floor buildings
- Kiosk mode available
- No recurring platform cost
Google Street View
From £269
No hosting fees
- Published to Google Maps
- Attaches to your Business Profile
- Strong for local search
- Ideal for hospitality & retail
- No ongoing cost
Booked alongside a photography shoot a Matterport tour is £150 rather than £249, since the travel and setup are already covered. If you are unsure which format fits, the format comparison sets out the trade-offs, or and I will tell you what I would do.
What Virtual Tour Clients Say
Feedback from virtual tour projects across the UK
Hampshire Virtual Tours, FAQs
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