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Hill Lee & Scott

Legal services · Burnside, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Hill Lee & Scott

Legal services · Burnside, Christchurch

Where you stand#94of 216 lawyers
Overall health5.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.403Map positions7.702Reviews6.9

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.107Google search and traffic5.101Google listing3.804Listings and social3.706Your website-
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Hill Lee & Scott is a Christchurch law firm based in the Burnside suburb, offering legal advice for property purchases and commercial matters. The firm provides end-to-end support for house purchases and covers a broad range of company and commercial law. Client feedback highlights professional, friendly service and efficient handling of property transactions.

Hill Lee & Scott is a law firm located in Burnside, Christchurch, providing legal services to local clients. The firm emphasises support for people buying houses and assistance for businesses across commercial and company law.

The practice offers advice on property purchases from start to finish and guidance across the spectrum of commercial and company law matters. The website describes a focus on delivering quality legal services to clients.

Clients commonly report professional, friendly and efficient service, noting warm welcomes and helpful handling of property transactions. Reviews mention prompt, obliging support and strong practical value in recent conveyancing work.

Hill Lee & Scott is positioned as a local Christchurch legal firm with expertise in property transactions and commercial law, known to clients for personable service and reliable, end-to-end advice in those areas.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Hill Lee & Scott shows a mixed health with potential improvements. Overall health sits around average, indicating areas for growth while core basics are in place. The most impactful findings are the missing description and logo, which, if addressed, could enhance trust and visibility, alongside ongoing photo additions that can lift listing engagement.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.4 ★★★★★ (27)
Legal services · Burnside
Open 5 days ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet1
Google listingChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Hill Lee & Scott shows an above-average health score for Google reviews, indicating solid overall performance. The strongest strengths include a good review base and high confidence in ratings, with room to improve on response to reviews. The business should focus on engaging customers through replies to build trust and continuity in service quality.

Strengths

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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 below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
  • 3
    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.
6.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Hill Lee & Scott
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4.4★★★★★27 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #67 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Hill Lee & Scott shows a very high health score for Maps Search Performance, indicating strong visibility in Google Maps. The top finding is the firm's solid performance in its suburb and overall city-wide presence, with notable strength in notary and legal services keywords. Opportunities focus on further lifting the borough score and refining the Google Business Listing to reach the top 10% of local results.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    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.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "notary public" in 9 suburbs, seen in 41
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Alpers & Co4.8 ★ (41) · Legal services
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Hill Lee & Scott24.4 ★ (27) · Legal services
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Burnside Law Centre4.3 ★ (3) · Legal services
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Fendalton Library4.7 ★ (186) · Legal services
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #51 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Hill Lee & Scott shows a below-average health score of 3.5 out of 10 for social presence and directory listings. The business has a Neighbourly profile that helps reach local customers, but there is no active presence on other major platforms. The most important finding is that gaps exist on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, and TikTok Directory, which constrain reach and trust.

Strengths

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    Neighbourly ProfileWe can see your Neighbourly Profile listing (https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/business/hill-lee-scott-1) found via: Google search results.
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    Find A Lawyer FirmWe can see your Find A Lawyer Firm listing (https://findalawyer.co.nz/hill-lee-scott) 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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #137 for listings and social
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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.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #106 for your Facebook page
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Hill Lee & Scott shows a below-average on-page SEO health score of 3.7 out of 10 for the homepage, indicating multiple issues that could limit visibility. The key strengths include a valid favicon, a relevant meta description, frames not used, secure HTTPS content, and an SEO-friendly URL. The two most impactful findings are missing or insufficient meta description health and render-blocking resources that slow loading times.

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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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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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.

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
    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
  • 3
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Hill Lee & Scott's website traffic health is mid-range, with an average overall health score of 5.5 out of 10. This indicates room for improvement in paid and organic visibility. The most notable findings show some strength in organic traffic value (above the 25th percentile) but limited paid activity and no paid keyword presence in the top 100 results.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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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.
  • 3
    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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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www.lawsociety.org.nzGeoffrey Paul Sumby
www.ktlaw.co.nzKT Law: Christchurch Lawyers | Legal Services Canterbury
www.hlslegal.co.nzHill Lee & Scott - Lawyers

We are a third generation law firm based in Christchurch … 36 Sir William Pickering Drive, Burnside, Christchurch 8053 | 03 379 7780 | [email protected]

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1About 148 visits a month from search, across 32 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #107 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Hill Lee & Scott's published hours show clear strengths and gaps. The firm is open during several high-demand weekday lunch and mid-morning slots (Tuesday 12-1pm, Wednesday 12pm, Thursday 10-11am), which aligns well with client searches. However, it misses popular weekend and early-morning windows (Saturday 10am, Sunday 1-2pm, Friday 8am), representing potential client demand not covered by current hours.

Strengths

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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.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Hill Lee & Scott
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday8:30am-5pm
Tuesday8:30am-5pm
Wednesday8:30am-5pm
Thursday8:30am-5pm
Friday8:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Monday · Burnside
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You are #14 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#94of 216 Christchurch lawyers
9:41
Christchurch lawyersOverall · 216 businesses
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