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Housing societies, schemes and master-planned developments

Let a buyer stand on the plot before they pay for it.

One drone flight over a society becomes a 3D record that opens in any browser: every plot found and marked, every block read for how far it has got, and your own register laid on top of it. Buyers who cannot visit can look round it on their phone, and you have a dated record of the ground for everybody else.

Every example on this page is a sample build of our own. The names, plot numbers, owners and payments inside them are made up and say so on screen.

Three people are looking at the same society.

They want different things from it, and that is usually why one piece of marketing cannot serve all three.

A society’s sales office

You are selling files and plots that a buyer cannot stand on yet.

Show the land as it is today, with every plot found and marked, and the buyer can see for themselves what is built, what is under construction and what is still bare. The ones who then come to the office have already decided they are interested.

A development authority or a developer

You need a dated record of what the ground looked like, not a folder of photographs.

One flight becomes a 3D record of the whole phase, with plots, roads and services on it. Fly it again and you have the same place at two dates, which is what an allotment dispute, a contractor claim or a progress report actually needs.

A buyer who cannot get there

You are being asked to pay instalments on something you have never seen, in a place you cannot easily travel to.

A link that opens on your phone wherever you happen to live, showing the scheme as the drone saw it, with your block and your plot marked on it. No app, no account. Send it to whoever you are taking advice from.

Sample builds you can open now.

These are ours, built to show what the software does. Open any of them on a phone. Nothing to install and no account to make.

A society on its first dayGraded earth and a site office, rebuilt in 3D from one 43-second drone orbit, with a plan laid on the real ground: 5 marla plots, 2.2 km of streets, and water, sewer, power and gas under them. Every plot, the mosque, the school and the shops can be clicked for size, structure and services, and a timeline builds the whole thing phase by phase.Open it →Every plot given a passportA society rebuilt from a 20-second clip, with all 65 plots pinned and their build stage read off the 3D, and a sample register of owners, files and payments laid on top and checked against what the drone actually saw.Open it →A whole sector, one mapThe same approach across a full sector rather than one block: plots and phases, with what is built set against what is still bare ground. This is the view a sales office and an authority both ask for, because it answers how far along the whole thing is in one screen.Open it →The commercial core, measuredThe commercial quarter rebuilt from sixteen seconds of footage, with every building measured from the 3D and a register of who holds each floor.Open it →A pass over a site under constructionA 44-second drone pass rebuilt in 3D, with 113 plots found and coloured by how far each has got, machines and materials counted, and the walk to every unfinished plot mapped.Open it →Handwritten registers, read by machineSocieties run on paper. Handwritten registers from the 1860s to the 1950s were read cell by cell and scored against human copies: where two readers agree, every cell was right, and the rest go to a person. The same approach reads an allotment register.Open it →

Measurements taken from a capture are for seeing and comparing. Where a figure matters legally or commercially the surveyed number rules, and nothing here settles a boundary, an area or an allotment.

Plots, files, possession, instalments.

Wherever land is sold before it is built, the questions are the same ones. Here is which of them a 3D record can answer and which it cannot.

Plots and files

Plots of different sizes read differently from the air and are found and marked separately, in whatever units your market measures them in: marla and kanal, square yards, square metres. A file with no possession yet is still a point on the map, labelled as such, so a buyer can see exactly what stage the thing they hold is at.

Possession and NOC

Whether a block has possession, and whether the paperwork behind it is in order, is not something a 3D scene can tell you and we will not pretend otherwise. What it can do is show the block as it stands on a given date, beside whatever your own records say about it.

Instalments and progress

People paying by instalment keep asking the same question: what has actually moved since last time. A record captured every month or every quarter answers it once, for everybody, instead of one phone call at a time.

Buyers living abroad

In most of these markets a large share of the money comes from people living in another country. They are the hardest to reassure and the easiest to lose, and a link they can open and move around in does more than a brochure or a forwarded photograph.

What exists today, and what we build for you.

We would rather separate these two lists than let you find out which was which after signing something.

Working now, on every project

  • A 3D record of the society, captured from the air, that opens from a link in any browser with nothing to install
  • Every plot found, marked and read for how far it has got, with your own register laid on top of it and checked against what the drone saw
  • Your branding, on your own domain if you have one
  • The scene files and the data, yours to keep, whoever you work with later
  • Handwritten or scanned registers read into a table a person can check

Built for you, and quoted as its own piece of work

Any society above a certain size asks for these, and they are real engineering rather than a setting we switch on. None of them exists yet. If you need them, say so early and they are scoped and priced with the rest of the job.

Logins and role-based access

So a sales agent, a manager and an auditor each see a different thing.

Running on your own servers

Inside your own network rather than ours, if your policy or your board requires it.

An audit trail

Who looked at what and who changed what, kept and exportable.

Joining your existing systems

Your allotment, billing or CRM records read directly rather than uploaded.

How a first one usually goes.

  1. You send what you have. Any drone footage of the society, even a short clip from a phone. We tell you whether it will rebuild before you pay anything, and if it will not we say so.
  2. We build one block or one phase. Not the whole society. Something small enough to see quickly and real enough to judge.
  3. You show it to the people who have to be convinced. A link, sent to a director, a board or a buyer. This is the part that decides whether there is a project.
  4. Then the rest, at whatever pace suits you. Phase by phase, or the whole thing, or a record captured again every month. Priced for the market it is in.

Flying a drone needs the right permissions and a licensed pilot, and the rules differ from one country to the next. That is arranged and quoted separately rather than buried in a price. Where you already hold footage, no flight is needed at all.

Send us twenty seconds of footage.

WhatsApp is usually the fastest way to reach us, and it reaches a person rather than a queue. Tell us which society, and we will tell you honestly what your footage can and cannot become.

We also build the same thing for construction sites, farms and property in the UK. If that is what you are after, the housing societies page goes into the packages in more detail.