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Port Hills Law

Real estate attorney · Cashmere, 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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Port Hills Law

Real estate attorney · Cashmere, Christchurch

Where you stand#99of 216 lawyers
Overall health5.4/10across the eight areas

Going well

03Map positions7.407Google search and traffic6.601Google listing6.2

Where we can help

02Reviews5.605Facebook page5.104Listings and social4.208Opening hours3.406Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Port Hills Law is a law firm based in Cashmere, Christchurch, offering legal services across the wider South Island. The firm specialises in residential and commercial property law, leases, trusts and estate planning, relationship property, wills and powers of attorney, and estate administration. It serves clients in Christchurch, Nelson, Queenstown and online, with a focus on clear communication and practical advice.

Port Hills Law is a law firm located in Cashmere, Christchurch, providing legal services across the wider South Island. The practice lists offices or service points in Christchurch, Nelson and Queenstown and also offers online consultations.

The firm provides a broad range of general legal services and highlights specialisms in residential and commercial property law, leases, trusts and estate planning, relationship property, wills and powers of attorney, and estate administration. These areas form the core of its day-to-day work and are emphasised on the firm's web materials.

Clients' comments in recent reviews describe the team as knowledgeable and informative, noting clear, straight-to-the-point communication. Several reviews mention long-term relationships with individual lawyers and appreciation for accommodating arrangements such as remote meetings when clients are overseas. Good communication through transactions such as buying and selling homes is a recurring theme.

Locally, Port Hills Law presents as a Christchurch legal practice with a property and private-client focus, serving both in-person and online clients across the South Island. Customers can expect a firm that foregrounds property, trusts and estate matters and that has experience managing transactions and administration for individual and commercial clients.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Port Hills Law shows a solid Google Business Listing health with a 6.0 out of 10. The listing has key basics covered, including a listed phone number, website link and claimed status, and the business is marked as open for customers. Primary strength is verified ownership and accessible contact details that support client inquiries.

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.
  • ✓
    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
    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.
6.2Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.4 ★★★★★ (14)
Real estate attorney · Cashmere3
Open 5 days ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Port Hills Law shows an average health score of 5.3 out of 10 on Google reviews, indicating moderate performance. The two key findings are a lack of response to any reviews and steady improvement in rating and review volume compared with peers. Overall, customer engagement needs attention while ratings trend upward.

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
    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.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Port Hills Law
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4.4★★★★★14 reviews
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2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #95 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Port Hills Law shows a healthy performance on Google Maps with a 7.4 out of 10 health score, indicating solid visibility. Top findings include strong rankings for property-related keywords in Cashmere and Beckenham, and above-median borough presence that supports local discovery. Opportunities lie in broadening suburb coverage and maintaining momentum to reach top performers.

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.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
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 "real estate attorney" in 4 suburbs, seen in 22
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Port Hills Law24.4 ★ (14) · Real estate attorney
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Aspiring Law Cashmere4.2 ★ (9) · Real estate attorney
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Weston Ward & Lascelles4.3 ★ (65) · Real estate attorney
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Saunders & Co Ferrymead4.8 ★ (46) · Real estate attorney
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #57 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Port Hills Law's social presence health sits at 0.6 out of 10, indicating very low overall visibility across key platforms. The top opportunities focus on establishing active profiles on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and professional networks, as well as a consistent Yellow Directory listing and a LinkedIn presence to build trust with potential clients.

Strengths

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    Top Lawyers ListingWe can see your Top Lawyers Listing listing (https://toplawyers.co.nz/port-hills-law-christchurch) found via: Google search results.
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    Lawzana LawyerWe can see your Lawzana Lawyer listing (https://lawzana.com/port-hills-law-kristy-rusher-22-colombo-st-christchurch) 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/nick-morley) 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 6 of them.
4.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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ChristchurchLawyerport-hills-lawPort Hills Law | ChristchurchLawyer
Lawzana Lawyerport-hills-law-kristy-rusher-22-colombo-st-christchurchPort Hills Law | Lawzana Lawyer✓
Top Lawyersport-hills-law-christchurchPort Hills Law | Top Lawyers✓
Find A Lawyer Firmnick-morleyPort Hills Law | Find A Lawyer Firm✓
StarOfService Pronick-morleyPort Hills Law | StarOfService Pro
FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #126 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

Port Hills Law shows overall on-page SEO health of 2.7 out of 10, indicating low performance. Key strengths include a page size under 256KB, a relevant meta description, no render-blocking resources, a fast page load time under 3 seconds, and no framing. The top risks involve missing a meta description, suboptimal title tag length, missing favicon, and an abnormally high text-to-page size ratio that may indicate content imbalance.

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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    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.
  • ✓
    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.

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
    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
    On-page scoreMost checks on your home page pass, so someone clicking through from a search gets a page that opens quickly and says what it is.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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✓The shape of your link profile
1Meta description
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3On-page score
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How people find you on Google

Port Hills Law's Website Traffic health is 7.1 out of 10, which is above average. The overall traffic position shows some momentum, with organic traffic value in the mid-range and local rankings in the 25th to 50th percentile. Key opportunities lie in initiating paid traffic activity, testing paid keywords, and improving landing pages to convert visitors.

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.
  • 3
    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.
6.6Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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21No ads from you on any search
porthillslaw.co.nzPort Hills Law: Property Lawyers Christchurch

7 May 2026 — We are a law firm based in Cashmere, Christchurch but have services that extend to the wider South Island. With a wide range of expertise ... Read more

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3About 168 visits a month from search, across 75 searches
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Your hours against demand

Port Hills Law's published hours align well with weekday lunchtime and mid-morning demand, particularly Tuesday 12-1pm, Wednesday 12pm and Thursday 10-11am. However there are missed opportunities at popular weekend and early-morning times (Saturday 10am, Sunday 1-2pm, Friday 8am and Saturday 8pm). No open hours fall in low-demand windows, so the schedule is efficient but could add limited weekend or early-morning cover.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Port Hills Law
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Hours 1
Monday9am-6pm
Tuesday9am-6pm
Wednesday9am-6pm
Thursday9am-6pm
Friday9am-6pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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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#99of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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