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Brookhaven Retirement Village

Retirement community · Woolston, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 96 Christchurch retirement villages.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Brookhaven Retirement Village

Retirement community · Woolston, Christchurch

Where you stand#66of 96 retirement villages
Overall health3.2/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Brookhaven Retirement Village in Woolston, Christchurch combines a rest home, specialist dementia wings and a village of retirement villas on established grounds. Bedrooms and villas include ensuites and residents are encouraged to personalise their rooms. The site features accessible courtyards, lawns and gardens and a 24-hour registered nurse is on call.

Brookhaven Retirement Village in Woolston, Christchurch provides a rest home, specialist dementia wings and a community of retirement villas within a single facility. The site is set among established lawns and gardens with views toward the Port Hills and accessible outdoor spaces for residents.

The village describes large rest home bedrooms with ensuites and villas with comfortable bedrooms, ensuites and spacious living and dining rooms. The dementia wings offer secure, extra-care environments and staff provide tailored care to meet individual needs. A registered nurse is on call 24 hours a day and a diversional therapist runs a comprehensive activity programme that includes regular activities, outings and social events.

Customer feedback shows a mix of experiences. Some recent comments praise attentive care, respect and the food, along with active engagement through the programme. Other reviewers raise concerns about management, staffing levels and difficulties contacting residents by phone. Responses from the operator appear in some review threads.

Locally, Brookhaven is presented as a full-service retirement village and care facility that combines residential villas, rest home and dementia care on one landscaped site. Its combination of 24-hour clinical cover, on-site activity programming and accessible grounds are the practical features likely to influence how clients and families choose between care options in Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows an average overall health in Google listing health, with solid basics in place and room for improvement. Key strengths include an open-for-business status, a listed website link, a phone number, and a claimed listing, which gives control over details. The business title appears and the listing shows as expected, supporting inquiry from potential customers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    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.
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    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
    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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2.0 ★★★★★ (4)
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From the business

Brookhaven Rest Home and Retirement Village houses a rest home, specialist dementia wings, and a community of retirement villas in one facility. Rest home bedrooms are all large and include ensuites. Residents are encouraged to make their space their own, by using personal furniture and treasured items. Grounds are well-established and thoughtfully designed so that courtyards, lawns and gardens are easily accessible and enjoyed. Villas feature comfortable bedrooms complete with ensuite, spacious living and dining rooms. The Dementia wings offer extra care to those who need it, in a safe and secure environment. Staff provide tailored care appropriate to specific individual needs.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows a very low overall Google review health score, at 0.7 out of 10, indicating significant room for improvement in customer feedback and engagement. The top findings suggest progress in rating confidence and some engagement in responding to reviews, but overall review volume remains modest and more reviews are needed to elevate trust and visibility.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    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 countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Annette S.★ · 3 years ago

Cannot contact residents by phone, inadequate response to allow communication for residents is poor

Response from the owner

We're sorry you had an issue communicating with a resident. There may be times we ask you to ring back if all the resident phones are in use at the same time.

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Lyn A.★★★★★ · 4 years ago

I have just had 2 weeks respite care at Brookhaven Retirement village, the care,respect, food my god amazing every 2 hrs something to eat and drink. All staff are special and so much care to everyone ❤ a great insight for me and I truly wou...

Response from the owner

Thank you for your kind words

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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows a below-average health score of 3.7/10 for Google Maps search visibility, indicating limited overall prominence. Top opportunities lie in boosting aggregate map presence while continuing strong local visibility within Woolston. The business ranks well for several hospice, nursing home and retirement home keywords in Brookhaven-Ferrymead and Woolston, suggesting solid relevance in core services.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
3.7Room to grow
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1Top three for "retirement community" in 2 suburbs, seen in 11
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Brookhaven Retirement Village✓2.0 ★ (4) · Retirement community
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Archer Linrose Village4.6 ★ (17) · Retirement community
Map positionsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Where customers find you

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows a health score of 0.7 out of 10 in the Citations & Social Presence area, indicating very low overall presence. The most important findings are the missing active profiles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Neighbourly, which limit local visibility and trust signals with customers and directories.

Strengths

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    Eldernet ProviderWe can see your Eldernet Provider listing (https://eldernet.co.nz/brookhaven) found via: Google search results.
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    Village Guide ListingWe can see your Village Guide Listing listing (https://villageguide.co.nz/brookhaven-retirement-village) found via: Google search results.
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    Healthpoint ListingWe can see your Healthpoint Listing listing (https://healthpoint.co.nz/brookhaven-retirement-village) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
20 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Age Concernbrookhaven-retirement-village-and-rest-homeBrookhaven Retirement Village | Age Concern
Healthpointbrookhaven-retirement-villageBrookhaven Retirement Village | Healthpoint✓
The Community Venuewelcome-to-brookhaven-retirement-village-in-christchurchBrookhaven Retirement Village | The Community Venue
Eldernet ProviderbrookhavenBrookhaven Retirement Village | Eldernet Provider✓
Village Guidebrookhaven-retirement-villageBrookhaven Retirement Village | Village Guide✓
Aged AdvisorBrookhaven-Retirement-Village-Woolston-ChristchurchBrookhaven Retirement Village | Aged Advisor
Healthpagesretirement-villages-brookhavenBrookhaven Retirement Village | Healthpages
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Your website

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows average on-page SEO health with a 5.3/10. Strengths include a perfect title tag length and a valid favicon, plus fast page load under 3 seconds and adequate content. However, improvements are needed in meta description, avoiding frames, addressing mixed content, and reducing render-blocking resources to help performance and indexing.

Strengths

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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
  • 2
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
  • 3
    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Brookhaven Retirement Village shows an average overall health score for website traffic, with room for improvement in paid and organic visibility. Key findings include mid-range organic traffic value and local ranking presence, while paid activity is currently unclear. This suggests sustained work on content and content-related SEO, plus cautious paid tests could help build a fuller traffic profile.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.villageguide.co.nzWoolston Retirement Villages
goldenhealthcare.co.nzBrookhaven Retirement Village

Contact. 29 Alport Place, Woolston, Christchurch Phone 03 384 5046, Fax 03 384 5046. Email [email protected]. Please contact us if you have any ... Read more

www.eldernet.co.nzBrookhaven Retirement Village and Rest Home
3About 1,505 visits a month from search, across 410 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Brookhaven Retirement Village's published hours mostly match local demand in daytime hours, with all 56 well-aligned peak hours captured and no low-demand open hours. Peak alignment is strongest midweek afternoons, especially Tuesday and Wednesday 1-3pm and Thursday 1pm. However, several weekday mornings around 8am are closed during notable local demand, representing missed opportunities to engage families and referrers.

Strengths

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    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. You are first of 96 Christchurch retirement villages for hours that match demand.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Brookhaven Retirement Village
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Hours ✓
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-5pm
Sunday9am-5pm
Popular times Monday · Woolston
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#66of 96 Christchurch retirement villages
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Christchurch retirement villagesOverall · 96 businesses
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