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Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam

Aged care · Upper Riccarton, 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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Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam

Aged care · Upper Riccarton, Christchurch

Where you stand#26of 96 retirement villages
Overall health7.4/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam is a 102-bed aged care facility in the leafy Ilam suburb of Christchurch. It provides rest home, hospital and Bupa short-stay services, and is colocated beside the Bupa Parkstone Retirement Village. The site sits near local amenities such as New World Ilam and offers dedicated care including a dementia unit.

Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam is an aged care facility located in the leafy suburb of Ilam in Christchurch. The site is described as quiet but convenient, close to local amenities including New World Ilam, and colocated next door to the Bupa Parkstone Retirement Village.

The facility has 102 beds and provides rest home, hospital and Bupa short-stay services. Accommodation and care options are arranged to support a range of needs, and the home includes a dementia unit as part of its service offering.

Customer feedback highlights professional, kind and attentive staff, with families noting respectful care in the dementia unit and positive interactions with the team. Reviews refer to the facility and its surroundings as comfortable and well suited to elderly residents, with families appreciative of the service and support provided.

Locally, Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam is positioned as a full-service aged care option for Christchurch residents seeking rest home, hospital-level or short-term Bupa care in a residential Ilam setting. Its size, on-site dementia care and proximity to a retirement village and neighbourhood amenities are practical features that shape how clients and families experience the facility.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam shows a healthy Google listing standing with a 7.2/10 health score. Core details are complete and verified, with a live phone number and website link, plus a claimed listing. The main strengths are clear contact information and an up-to-date status display, while opportunities focus on expanding the description and photo library to improve local relevance.

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

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    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 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 category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.2Room to grow
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4.3 ★★★★★ (24)
Aged care · Upper Riccarton3
Open 7 days ✓
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From the business

Bupa Parkstone Care Home has 102 beds for rest home, hospital, and Bupa short stay services. Located in the leafy green suburb of Ilam, it's located is a quiet location but still convenient to ammenties like New World Ilam (next door). We're also colocated next door to the Bupa Parkstone Retirement Viillage, which offers modern apartment-style retirement living.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The overall health score for Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam on Google Reviews is 5.4 out of 10, indicating moderate performance with room for improvement. Key findings show no responses to reviews yet, strong listing growth in total reviews, and solid rating confidence that already sits above the local median. There is potential to boost trust through engagement.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.1Good
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4.3★★★★★24 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam is above average with a 6.3/10 overall health. The strongest showing is in top keywords such as nursing home in ilam and retirement home in ilam, indicating solid visibility for key local terms. Opportunity lies in extending performance in the borough and broader aggregate maps results to push higher in local queries.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.0Good
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2Top three for "nursing home" in 7 suburbs, seen in 50
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Elms Court Village4.7 ★ (27) · Aged care
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Elms Court Gardens4.2 ★ (46) · Aged care
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Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam14.3 ★ (24) · Aged care
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HomesteadCare Ilam4.5 ★ (34) · Aged care
Map positionsChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Where customers find you

Citations & Social Presence shows an average health score of 5.7 out of 10, indicating the business has an average overall presence online across social profiles and directories. The strongest current asset is a very high trust Facebook profile, while gaps exist on Instagram, TikTok, Neighbourly, Yellow, and TikTok directories, which limits reach and trust with local customers.

Strengths

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    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.
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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/bupa-parkstone-care-home) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    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 5 of them.
5.8Room to grow
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FacebookBupaNZBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | Facebook✓
White Pagesbupa-parkstone-care-homeBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | White Pages✓
Eldernet Providerbupa-parkstone-care-homeBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | Eldernet Provider
Village Guidebupa-parkstone-care-homeBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | Village Guide
Aged AdvisorBupa-Parkstone-Care-Home-Ilam-ChristchurchBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | Aged Advisor
The Community Venuebupa-parkstone-care-home-event-venue-in-ilam-christchurchBupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam | The Community Venue
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    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.
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    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.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.3Good
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Facebook pageChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Your website

The on-page SEO health for Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam shows a low overall score of 2.6 out of 10, with several critical gaps. The most important findings are missing a Title Tag for the homepage and a Meta Description, both key for visibility and click-throughs.

Strengths

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    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.
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    Pages linking to youMore pages link to yours than almost any business in this market - the accumulated result of years of being referred to.
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    Links to your siteMore sites link to you than almost any business in this market, a position built over years and genuinely hard for a competitor to match.

Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Page titleThere is no headline set on your home page, so the clickable blue line in a search result falls back to your domain name or a scrap of code.
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    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

The website health for Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam remains very high, reflecting strong organic performance and local relevance. The most notable findings are outstanding organic traffic value and top local SERP coverage, indicating robust visibility and value from search results while paid activity shows room to improve through testing and optimisation.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsYour paid search activity is smaller than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth more than half the businesses here, so a real share of your enquiries cost nothing to acquire.
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    Monthly ad visitsYou are getting fewer visitors from paid search than the middle of the businesses advertising here.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.5Strong
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www.arvida.co.nzIlam - Retirement Villages in New Zealand
www.bupa.co.nzParkstone Retirement Village | Christchurch

Bupa Parkstone - apartment style retirement living with an indoor heated pool, gym, courtyard BBQ entertainment area, and landscaped gardens.

www.eldernet.co.nzElms Court Gardens - Christchurch - Retirement Villages ...
2About 32,530 visits a month from search, across 2,113 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch retirement villages · 96 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Bupa Parkstone Care Home Ilam's opening hours largely match local demand, with 87 well-aligned peak hours and no missed high-demand windows. Peak alignment is strongest midweek afternoons, notably Tuesday 2pm and Wednesday 1-3pm, and Thursday 1pm. Some low-demand hours are open late evenings and early Monday morning, suggesting modest inefficiency that could be trimmed or staffed flexibly to reduce operating cost without cutting peak coverage.

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Hours 1
Monday12am-12am
Tuesday12am-12am
Wednesday12am-12am
Thursday12am-12am
Friday12am-12am
Saturday12am-12am
Sunday12am-12am
Popular times Wednesday · Upper Riccarton
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#26of 96 Christchurch retirement villages
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Christchurch retirement villagesOverall · 96 businesses
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