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RBA Studio

Architect · Addington-Middleton, 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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RBA Studio

Architect · Addington-Middleton, Christchurch

Where you stand#117of 252 architects
Overall health5.4/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

RBA Studio is a Christchurch architectural practice based in Middleton that designs residential and light commercial projects. The studio focuses on high-end homes, multi-unit developments and collaborative design, working alongside parent company R&B Builders to integrate buildability and construction input early in projects. The team emphasises a progressive, bespoke approach to contemporary environments.

RBA Studio is an architectural practice located in Middleton, Christchurch, that focuses on residential and light commercial work. The studio describes itself as progressive and follows its own vernacular in response to modern environments, with a stated emphasis on intelligent architecture.

The practice specialises in high-end residential design, multi-unit developments and light commercial projects. Website material lists architectural homes, residential units and multi-unit development among core services. The studio also highlights projects such as Cornerstone On Cashmere, Kennedys Bush Residence and The Thorrington Residence.

Clients work with a collaborative team of architects and designers who coordinate closely with parent company R&B Builders, a quantity surveyor and an interior designer from early design stages. This integration is used to resolve complications early, maintain buildability and keep alignment with construction and cost expectations during the design process.

Locally, RBA Studio positions itself as a small, like-minded group offering integrated design-and-build collaboration for Christchurch projects. The combination of architectural design and early construction input is a consistent feature of how the studio presents its services to clients in the region.

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Your Google listing

RBA Studio shows an above-average health score for its Google Business Listing, with several key completions in place. The listing has a website link, a title, claimed status, a visible open/closed status, and a phone number, which supports easy customer contact. Notable progress includes a solid description and photos, though room remains to grow to local midpoints.

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
    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.
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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.
6.6Good
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From the business

At RBA Studio we courageously live and breath architecture and design. We don’t want to be just interesting, we are progressive and we follow our own vernacular in response to modern environments, creating intelligent architecture. Our team is a like-minded collaborative group working alongside our parent company R&B Builders.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

RBA Studio shows a very low health score on Google Business reviews, indicating limited customer engagement and trust. The most important findings are the need to build credibility through more reviews and active responses to feedback, plus beginning to establish a higher star rating by consistently delivering quality service.

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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.
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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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
3.5Room to grow
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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

RBA Studio shows an overall health score of 4.0 out of 10 for Google Maps performance, indicating below average visibility and room for improvement. The strongest results are in hillmorton and upper riccarton with top-5 rankings for several architecture keywords, suggesting solid local recognition in those areas. Focus should be on improving the borough and aggregate scores to broaden reach.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
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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.
4.4Room to grow
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Barry Connor Design5.0 ★ (5) · Architect
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RBA Studio10.0 ★ (0) · Architect
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Armstrong Interiors Ltd5.0 ★ (13) · Architect
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TeamElan Master Tilers5.0 ★ (1) · Architect
Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #142 for map positions
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Where customers find you

RBA Studio shows a solid overall health with a 6.1 out of 10, indicating above-average presence across tested channels. The two completed achievements-Outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles with very high trust-reflect strong social credibility and consistent branding that customers recognise. The main gains come from owned social profiles and trust signals rather than new platform activity.

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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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    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.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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.
6.2Good
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FacebookrbastudionzRBA Studio | Facebook✓
InstagramrbastudionzRBA Studio | Instagram✓
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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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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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top three opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    What your page says about youThere is more in your intro than in half the pages here, so a visitor has a real sense of the business before they reach the photos.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.9Good
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RBA Studio are a young practice specialising in Architectural Homes & Multi-Unit Developments, we work alongside our parent company @rnbbuild3
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☎ +64 27 777 1051✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Your website

RBA Studio shows a very high on-page SEO health with an overall score of 8.9 out of 10, indicating strong technical factors and solid foundations for search visibility. The most notable findings are excellent meta description health and a valid favicon, both supporting clear search previews and brand presence.

Strengths

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    Meta descriptionYour search summary sits in the length that reads in full on most screens, which is as far as length alone can take it - a narrow phone still cuts the tail off a line this size.
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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

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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.
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    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.
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    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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2The shape of your link profile
3Separate sites linking to you
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How people find you on Google

RBA Studio's Website Traffic health sits at 7.2 out of 10, indicating generally solid performance with room for improvement. The most important insights show that paid traffic is not yet measurable and paid spend is not clearly defined, while organic traffic value is mid-range and organic rankings are improving with consistent effort.

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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21No ads from you on any search
RBA StudioNot in these results
3About 66 visits a month from search, across 48 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #91 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

RBA Studio's published hours mostly match weekday lunchtime demand but miss notable weekend peaks. The studio is open during several midday spikes-Tuesday 12pm, Wednesday 11-12pm and Thursday 12-1pm-aligning with client searches. However, the practice is closed across strong Saturday and Sunday midday demand windows. No open hours fall in low-demand periods, so current hours are efficient but miss weekend opportunities.

Strengths

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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
Monday8am-5pm
Tuesday8am-5pm
Wednesday8am-5pm
Thursday8am-5pm
Friday8am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

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#117of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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