Floor View Tours for Multi-Level Homes and Suites: Ending the “Which Floor Is This?” Problem

Some homes are easy to understand from photos. Multi-level homes aren't. A three-storey townhome, a split-level with half-flights or a family home with a basement suite can leave buyers scrolling back and forth, trying to work out where each room sits.

The multi-level problem

• Two or three bedrooms that look alike, on different floors.
• Bathrooms that could belong to the main home or the suite.
• Kitchens: is that the main kitchen or the suite's?
• Half-levels that make "upstairs" and "downstairs" ambiguous.

If buyers can't answer these from the listing, many won't book a showing. The rest arrive confused.

How a Floor View Tour solves it

A Floor View Tour gives each level its own floor plan with the listing photos placed exactly where they were taken, each with a marker showing which way the camera faced. Buyers switch floors to see what's on each level, and when they step through the photos in order the tour moves between floors with them.

Main home and basement suite shown on separate floor plans

For a home with a suite, the suite level appears as its own floor with its own photos, so the separation between the main home and the suite is obvious.

Local examples where it helps

• Port Moody and Coquitlam townhomes stacked over three floors, with garage and entry below, living in the middle and bedrooms on top. See our Port Moody and Coquitlam pages.
• Port Coquitlam and Surrey suited homes, where investors and multi-generational buyers need to see the suite's layout. See Port Coquitlam and Surrey.
• North Shore split-levels, whose half-flights confuse photo galleries.

Build the complete layout package

1. A measured floor plan for every level.
2. The Floor View Tour on top of it.
3. Optionally, a Property Report with room dimensions, useful when buyers are furnishing two living spaces.

Presenting it in the listing

Name rooms by level in captions ("Bedroom 3, upper floor"), group photos by floor in the gallery, and put the Floor View Tour link in the virtual tour field and on the property website.

Multi-level homes don't need more photos. They need the photos they already have, placed on the right floor.