My family bought a new flat a couple of years back, and the process of zeroing in to the property we finally purchased was excruciating to say the least. From traveling for hours across the city, to visiting dusty construction sites, to taking leaves from work for site visit, we had a harrowing time deciding the house of our choice. What’s more, most sites we visited were under construction, so we couldn’t often visualize how the flat would look once constructed. To make things worse, sometimes we forgot what the flat we visited looked and felt like after a period of time. We so wished there was some way to compare, experience and evaluate these properties in a more convenient, more tech savvy manner.
It seems Magicbricks has listened to the needs of customers like us. Magicbricks.com, which is India’s No.1 property site, has launched country’s first Real Estate Experience Center at Magicbricks Western Express Highway metro station at Andheri in Mumbai. And while we have bought our flat now, we’re sure millions of new flat buyers wouldn’t have to go through the horrific experience we went through, thanks to this wonderful new initiative.
The MagicBricks Experience Centre offers a never before experience to prospective home buyers, bringing life-like virtual reality and exhaustive research based property selection tools under one roof. Magicbricks has worked tirelessly over months to fuse technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Video Calling and jumbo sized touchscreens to create an unmatched property research system. This new system empowers the buyer to browse, compare and virtually walk through properties of his choice using the latest VR tech. A customer can also have a detailed log of a builder’s reputation or get a bird’s eye view of a locality.
Using its years of experience and hard-earned data, Magicbricks is centralizing everything for the potential home buyer, thus mitigating risks such a locality risks, project risks, and developer credibility risks.
The prospective buyers at the Magicbricks Experience Centre can do a myriad of things to research property better. They can…
- Browse a huge database of property listings
- Use various financial calculators to check affordability in real time
- Compare different properties
- Virtually speak to a Magicbricks advisor and clear their doubts
- Take a virtual reality (VR) walk through the project they are interested in
- Interact with touchscreen based map searches
Using the virtual reality simulator a home buyer can move around in the apartment he wants to buy even when the flat is under construction. This helps him understand the layout better, along with ascertaining parameters such as daylight, ventilation and other needs specific to his family.
While Virtual Reality helps the home buyer survey the flat from inside, augmented reality helps him understand the locality in detail. This technology enables the users to have an aerial view of the entire locality. This way, an interested buyer can know the exact location of his flat within the society, the layout of the surrounding areas, distance from key points of interest and so on.
We spent some time at the Magicbricks Experience Centre at the Western Express Highway Metro Station during its inauguration and were astonished with how this setup can transform your property research experience. The highlights at this state of the art setup are many, and it’s really not possible to put the entire experience in words. If you are looking to buy a property in Mumbai, we would strongly recommend you spare some time and visit the Magicbricks Experience Centre. You will save yourself months of painful research, hundreds of kilometres of tiring travel and some money too. Do check it out, it’s totally worth it!
You can visit the official website for a complete experience – http://www.magicbricks.com/.
