marketbaseExclusive Marketbase Report
Prepared for

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village

Aged care · Addington-Middleton, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 70 Christchurch rest homes & nursing care businesses.

ReportLocal marketing report
Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
Open your report ↓
Executive summaryExclusive Marketbase business report

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village

Aged care · Addington-Middleton, Christchurch

Where you stand#12of 70 rest homes & nursing care businesses
Overall health8.4/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village is a rest home and aged-care provider in Spreydon, Christchurch. Part of the Alden/Ultimate Care group and connected with sister site Rose Court, it offers a range of care levels for older people. Customers note tranquil gardens, central location with public transport nearby, and friendly, caring staff.

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village is a rest home and aged-care provider located in the Spreydon neighbourhood of Christchurch. It has operated in the area for over 25 years and maintains a connection with its nearby sister site, Rose Court.

The facility is part of the Alden/Ultimate Care group and provides multiple levels of care to meet residents' medical, physical and psychological needs. Service descriptions on the provider's site note aged care, rest home options and other care levels designed for differing needs.

Customers commonly describe the site as tranquil with attractive gardens, and note the convenience of a central location and public transport access at the gate. Review themes also highlight friendly, caring and helpful staff and a generally pleasant living environment for residents.

Locally, Bishop Selwyn is presented as a long-established rest home with a connection to a wider aged-care group. It is positioned for older people seeking a neighbourhood-based care option in Spreydon with gardened grounds, a range of care levels and staff who are described by customers as welcoming and attentive.

ChatGPTGeminiGooglePerplexityClaude
Not quite right? Let's sort it
01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village shows an overall Google Business listing health of 5.4 out of 10, indicating average completeness and optimisation. Notable strengths include a claimed listing with full control, an open-for-business status, a visible listing title, a website link, and a phone number. Opportunities focus on improving the listing description and maintaining strong photo uploads to aid local visibility.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
  • ✓
    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
  • 3
    Category fitYour category set is one of the better-fitted in this market, so you are eligible for nearly every search happening around you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.8Room to grow
9:41
Tiles © Esri
2
Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village✓✓
4.1 ★★★★★ (11)
Aged care · Addington-Middleton3
Open 7 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

Bishop Selwyn Care Home & Village has been part of the Spreydon neighbourhood for over 25 years and has built a strong reputation amongst our community. Just around the corner from us is our sister site Rose Court with who we enjoy a close connection.

1
Google listingChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #30 for your Google listing
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google SearchGoogle MapsBusiness Profile
marketbase
02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village shows a low overall health score on Google reviews, with room for improvement in engagement and volume. The business has started collecting reviews and has at least one rating, but has not yet responded to any reviews, which can affect customer trust. Focused attention on responding to reviews could bolster trust and show ongoing care.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 2
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
  • 3
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.2Room to grow
9:41
Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.1★★★★★11 reviews
5
4
3
2
12
3How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #48 for your Google reviews
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google reviewsBusiness Profile
marketbase
03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village shows a solid 7.2 out of 10, indicating strong overall visibility with room to grow. Top opportunities focus on expanding aggregate visibility across suburbs and lifting the borough score toward the local midpoint. The business already ranks well for multiple nursing home and assisted living keywords in Selwyn and Rolleston.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
  • 2
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.4Strong
9:41
1234Tiles © Esri
2Top three for "nursing home" in 9 suburbs, seen in 57
1
Addington Gardens Care Centre4.5 ★ (12) · Aged care
2
St John of God Addington5.0 ★ (1) · Aged care
3
Avonlea Dementia & Rest Home4.2 ★ (32) · Aged care
4
Arvida Park Lane Christchurch4.5 ★ (13) · Aged care
↓
Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village1Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #12 for map positions
See how to fix both →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google Maps
marketbase
04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village shows an average health score for social and directory presence, with room to strengthen several platforms. The strongest current asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, indicating credible engagement. Key opportunity areas include expanding presence on Instagram, TikTok, Neighbourly, LinkedIn and Yellow profiles to improve discovery and trust among local customers.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
20 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
4.2Room to grow
9:41
Gbishop selwyn - alden ultimate care home & village addington-middleton
AllImagesMapsNews
Healthpointalden-bishop-selwynBishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village | Healthpoint
FacebookaldenultimatecareBishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village | Facebook✓
Eldernet Providerbishop-selwynBishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village | Eldernet Provider
Aged AdvisorBishop-Selwyn-retirement-Village-Ultimate-Care-Spreydon-ChristchurchBishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village | Aged Advisor
The Community Venuespreydon-retirement-community-ultimate-care-bishop-selwynBishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village | The Community Venue
Village Guidealden-bishop-selwynFound through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #41 for listings and social
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
GoogleFacebookInstagramTikTokHealthpointEldernet ProviderAged AdvisorYour website
marketbase
05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
  • ✓
    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
  • ✓
    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top two opportunities

  • 1
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 2
    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 5 of them.
9.4Strong
9:41
facebook
aldenultimatecare✓
4.5K followers 1
At Alden, we’re guided by a simple belief that everyone deserves compassionate, trusted, and respectful care as they age, no matter their means or background.2
FollowMessage
🌐 alden.co.nz✓
☎ +64 800 824 732✓
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #5 for your Facebook page
See how to fix both →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Facebook
marketbase
06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

The On-Page SEO health for Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village is 7.9 out of 10, indicating solid performance with room to improve. Key strengths include a precise meta description and a valid favicon, plus a relevant title tag. The main opportunities focus on reducing frames usage, speeding up load time, and addressing render-blocking resources to support indexing and user experience.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
  • ✓
    The shape of your link profileYour links come from about as wide a range of sites as anything in this market, and the mix of link types looks entirely natural.
  • ✓
    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
  • 2
    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreYour domain is younger than most businesses here.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
9:41
⚠alden.co.nz3✓
✓The shape of your link profile
✓Meta description
1On-page score
2Separate sites linking to you
Your websiteChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
Checked on
Your websiteGoogle Search
marketbase
07Google search and trafficMarketbase business report

How people find you on Google

Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village shows a below-average website traffic health score of 4.1/10. Overall traffic and keyword footprint are limited, but there are notable opportunities in paid and organic areas. The most impactful opportunities involve paid traffic value and organic value, with steady gains possible through data-driven refinements and ongoing content improvements.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
  • 2
    What you spend on adsYour paid search activity is smaller than most businesses advertising here.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than half the businesses here, so competitors are picking up searches you could be answering.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.6Room to grow
9:41
Grest home spreydon
AllMapsImagesShopping
www.villageguide.co.nzSpreydon Rest Homes
www.alden.co.nzBishop Selwyn Retirement Living Village - Alden

At Bishop Selwyn Village, we offer a variety of affordable retirement options to suit your needs, including care suites as well as one and two-bedroom villas. Read more

www.heritagelifecare.co.nzGeorge Manning Lifecare & Village Christchurch
31About 2,177 visits a month from search, across 333 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #38 for Google search and traffic
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google SearchGoogle Maps
marketbase
08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Bishop Selwyn's opening hours align well with local demand, especially weekday afternoons: Tuesday 1-2pm and Wednesday 1-3pm show strong alignment. There are no missed high-demand hours. Some low-demand open hours occur in evenings - Monday 7pm and Tuesday-Wednesday 8-10pm - which may be inefficient. Consider modestly reducing non-essential late-evening staffing or tightening visiting/non-essential service hours.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
7.0Good
9:41
Bishop Selwyn - Alden Ultimate Care Home & Village
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Friday · Addington-Middleton
12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p
When people in Addington-Middleton look   You are shut
Opening hoursChristchurch rest homes & nursing care · 70 businesses
You are #22 for opening hours
See how to fix it →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Your listed hoursWhen people search
marketbase
The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 20 opportunities, from the 75 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page2 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#12of 70 Christchurch rest homes & nursing care businesses
9:41
Christchurch rest homes & nursing careOverall · 70 businesses
You are #12 overall
Open my free 7 days →
The how for every one of these, and everything else we found, in the order that moves you fastest.
Just your name and email. No card. Or have us do it for you

Sounds like another marketing outfit?

We're not. Here's how we're different →

  • You see everything first. Free.Your position, your competitors, your fixes - before you spend a cent.
  • We don't need anything from you.No logins, no card, no setup. Built from what your customers can already see.
  • You watch it work.Your position in the market, every month. If it's not moving, you'll know.
  • Real New Zealand data.Every one of the 70 rest homes & nursing care businesses in Christchurch, checked - not a guess from overseas.
  • Built and run in Christchurch.A Kiwi business, not an offshore call centre.
  • A real person on the phone.Call us on 0800 747 901.
Jeremy GrayFounder, Marketbase

"I spent 20 years growing some of the biggest online marketplaces in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Marketbase gives local businesses the same edge."

Jeremy has grown marketing for