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IMAGINE Design and Development

Architecture firm · Burwood, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Checked12 October 2026
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IMAGINE Design and Development

Architecture firm · Burwood, Christchurch

Where you stand#160of 252 architects
Overall health3.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

05Facebook page9.408Opening hours9.203Map positions7.407Google search and traffic6.7

Where we can help

04Listings and social3.602Reviews3.501Google listing0.406Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

IMAGINE Design and Development is an architectural practice based in Burwood, Christchurch. The studio offers residential and commercial design with a focus on high-performance, energy-efficient buildings. As Certified Passive House designers, they aim to deliver comfortable, sustainable spaces and have a history of multi-award recognition and extensive project experience across New Zealand.

IMAGINE Design and Development is an architectural practice located in Burwood, Christchurch. The firm presents itself as a studio focused on designing high-performance buildings for residential and commercial clients, maintaining a practice presence in New Zealand since 2002.

The practice describes specialisms in Passive House design and energy-efficient building principles, applied across projects regardless of size or budget. Services referenced include new homes and commercial design with an emphasis on sustainable, healthy, and comfortable architecture. The team highlights its Certified Passive House Designer capability as part of its technical approach.

Clients and occupants are described as benefitting from energy-efficient, comfortable and sustainable spaces that result from the studio's design priorities. The practice states a commitment to improving quality of life through considered design decisions, and notes a track record of delivering projects that respond to client needs and regulatory requirements.

Locally, IMAGINE Design and Development positions itself through long-standing experience and a substantial portfolio, noting a multi-award background and over 1,000 commissions completed across New Zealand and overseas. The combination of Passive House certification, a focus on high-performance outcomes and broad project experience is presented as the studio's distinguishing characteristic in the Christchurch area.

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Your Google listing

The overall health is very low at 1.4 out of 10, indicating substantial room for improvement. The listing shows good basics such as a valid phone number, full address and a main image, but lacks a claimed status, a website link, a descriptive narrative, and visual variety. Addressing the gaps will help customers find and engage with IMAGINE Design and Development more easily.

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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    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.
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    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

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    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
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    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Architecture firm · Burwood
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

IMAGINE Design and Development shows a below-average health score for Google reviews, with limited review activity and no responses yet. The top findings indicate a need to build trust by gathering more positive reviews and starting to respond to feedback, while addressing negative comments promptly.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #163 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

IMAGINE Design and Development shows healthy Google Maps performance with a health score of 7.6 out of 10, indicating strong local visibility. Top findings highlight excellent ranking for key keywords such as architectural designer in burwood and architecture firm in burwood, both ranking at position 1, and other related terms in the top 5. Opportunities focus on pushing the aggregate score further and moving the suburb/borough score toward the top 10%.

Strengths

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

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.
7.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "architecture firm" in 2 suburbs, seen in 7
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IMAGINE Design and Development20.0 ★ (0) · Architecture firm
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Architecture Prime Ltd0.0 ★ (0) · Architecture firm
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Home Design Vault0.0 ★ (0) · Architecture firm
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Backcountry Studio5.0 ★ (7) · Architecture firm
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #67 for map positions
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Where customers find you

IMAGINE Design and Development shows a low overall health score for citations and social presence, at 2.8 out of 10. The main strength is a very high-trust Facebook profile, indicating strong current presence there. Key opportunities include establishing active profiles on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn (personal and company), and TikTok Directory to improve brand visibility and trust with 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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    CheckMyBuilder CompanyWe can see your CheckMyBuilder Company listing (https://checkmybuilder.co.nz/imagine-design-and-development-limited) found via: Google search results.

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.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gimagine design and development burwood
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CheckMyBuilderimagine-design-and-development-limitedIMAGINE Design and Development | CheckMyBuilder✓
ArchiPro Professionalimagine-architectureIMAGINE Design and Development | ArchiPro Professional
FacebookimaginearchitecturenzIMAGINE Design and Development | Facebook✓
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #162 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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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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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 4 of them.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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4.8K followers ✓
"Changing lives through great architecture & design".1
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★ 23 reviews · recommended ✓
🌐 imaginearchitecture.co.nz✓
☎ +64 800 999 404
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #17 for your Facebook page
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Your website

IMAGINE Design and Development shows solid on-page SEO health with a current overall score of 4.9 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. Key strengths include a valid favicon, a clear H1 tag, an SEO-friendly URL, a concise title tag, and a page under 256KB, which supports fast loading and clarity for users and search engines.

Strengths

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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.
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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 descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
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    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.
  • 3
    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Meta description
2Page title
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How people find you on Google

IMAGINE Design and Development has a solid traffic health score, with room to grow paid activity and sustain organic gains. Key findings show paid traffic is not yet measurable and organic value sits mid-range, indicating improvement potential in both paid and organic strategies.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
6.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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21No ads from you on any search
IMAGINE Design and DevelopmentNot in these results
3About 36 visits a month from search, across 60 searches
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You are #85 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

IMAGINE Design and Development's published hours hit several weekday lunch peaks, notably Tuesday 12pm and midweek 11-1pm on Wednesday and Thursday, showing useful alignment with client searches. However, substantial weekend demand is missed while closed on Saturday and Sunday midday. No low-demand open hours were found, so inefficiency from being open when customers aren't searching is not an issue.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
IMAGINE Design and Development
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #22 for opening hours
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The next step

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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#160of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
You are #160 overall
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