Drone splats
Show the plot, the roof, the road. Not just the rooms.
Aerial Gaussian splat capture for properties where the grounds, plot or surrounding streetscape add meaningful value. Photoreal, walkable in any direction, no app to download. The format that older 360 panoramas were never going to manage.
Plot view · Berkhamsted
Walk through
Why a drone splat, not just drone photos
A flat aerial photo tells you the property has a roof. A drone splat tells you what surrounds it.
Standard drone photos are a marketing asset. They look pretty in the listing, buyers click through them, then they go back to the floor plan. A drone splat is a buyer-walkable view of the entire plot. They can drift around the side of the property, look at the rear elevation from over the hedge, see what the next-door fence looks like from above, understand how the back garden sits to the south.
For listings where buyers care about the land — country properties, substantial gardens, anything backing onto woodland or commons — that understanding moves the needle on whether they bother coming for a viewing.
For new-build sites and developments, the same capture answers the "what's the surrounding context?" question that off-plan buyers ask ten times before exchange.
What you get
A second walkable space, captured from the air.
Delivered as a separate viewer or stitched into the interior splat as a continuous outdoor extension. Most agencies pick the second option; a single tour link that flows from front door to back garden to bird's-eye view.
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Front and rear elevations
Both faces of the property captured from across the road and from the back of the garden.
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Plot extent
A clear walkable view of where the boundary actually sits, useful for properties with ambiguous land descriptions.
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Roof condition
Visible from above so vendors can flag remedial work and buyers can see the work's been done.
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Garden orientation
Buyers can read which way the garden faces and where the sun is at midday.
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Streetscape and neighbours
Useful context for anyone moving from out of area, often the difference between a viewing booked and a viewing skipped.
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Surrounding green space
Common, woodland, river, anything within the immediate context of the plot.
The legal and practical bits
CAA-registered, insured, predictable.
Our drone work is operated by a CAA-registered pilot with current A2 CofC, full operator's licence, and £2m public liability and aviation hull cover. Certificates available before any capture.
We need permission to fly over the property and any neighbouring land we'll cross during capture. We'll co-ordinate that with the vendor, but anything unusually sensitive (schools, listed buildings, MOD-restricted airspace under London Heathrow's outer limits) gets flagged at booking.
Weather constraints: no flying in heavy rain or sustained winds above 26 mph. If the day's a write-off we re-book at no cost.
Adds 30 to 45 minutes to a typical on-site capture. £195 line item on the quote.
When it earns its keep
Not every property needs one. These do.
A flat in central London probably doesn't benefit. A four-bed in Berkhamsted with a third-of-an-acre garden almost certainly does. Some quick markers we use to advise.
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Country properties and rural homes
The plot and surroundings are often the bulk of the asking price.
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Properties above £750k
Buyers expect a fuller marketing treatment at this price point. Drone splat is part of that.
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New build sales suites
Off-plan buyers need a sense of context before committing.
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Heritage and listed buildings
Roofline and elevation are part of the architectural story.
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Land sales and plots
The drone splat is effectively the only meaningful capture format.
Want a drone splat priced for your next listing?
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