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South by Southeast Architects

Architecture firm · Christchurch Centre, 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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South by Southeast Architects

Architecture firm · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#91of 252 architects
Overall health6.4/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

South by Southeast Architects is an award-winning architecture practice based in Christchurch City Centre. The firm focuses on innovative, sustainable designs that aim to enhance local environments and strengthen a sense of place (tūrangawaewae). As a South Island practice, it emphasises contextual and environmentally sensitive design, and clients give it an average 5-star rating.

South by Southeast Architects is an award-winning architecture practice based in Christchurch City Centre. The practice describes its work as aimed at enhancing local environments and fostering a sense of place, using design approaches informed by the South Island context and local culture.

The firm states a focus on innovative, sustainable design. The available material highlights work that seeks to respond to site, community and climate, with an emphasis on creating buildings and spaces that relate to their surroundings and support tūrangawaewae.

Clients give the practice an average 5-star rating. While individual reviews are not quoted, this rating indicates consistently positive client feedback. Customers can expect a design process framed by sustainability and place-making principles, delivered by a practice that presents itself as award-winning and regionally focused.

Locally, South by Southeast is distinguished by its Christchurch City Centre base and South Island identity, with a stated goal of enhancing sense of place through architecture. The practice describes itself as combining design innovation and environmental sensitivity to shape projects that respond to local context and community values.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

South by Southeast Architects shows a solid Google Business Listing health of 6.1 out of 10, indicating above-average presence with room to improve. The listing already includes a website link, a listed phone number, a claimed status, and an open/closed indicator. Strengths include clear contact details and verified ownership. Key opportunity areas focus on richer description and more photos to boost visibility.

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 is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside 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.
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    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.3Room to grow
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From the business

An award winning architecture practice, our work seeks to enhance local environments with innovative and sustainable designs.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

South by Southeast Architects shows a mixed health on Google Reviews, with a 5.5/10 overall health score that points to average engagement and review momentum. The strongest finding is a top 10% star rating indicating high customer satisfaction. Key opportunities include improving response rate to reviews and encouraging more total reviews to lift confidence and listing strength.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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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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    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
5.5Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #115 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

South by Southeast Architects shows a healthy Google Maps presence with a 5.5/10 overall health score, indicating average visibility but room to improve. The top opportunities highlight momentum in aggregate maps results and a borough uplift. The strongest keywords show solid rank positions in Rolleston and Christchurch centre, suggesting steady local relevance and opportunities to broaden beyond core suburbs.

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.
5.6Room to grow
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2Top three for "architecture firm" in 1 suburb, seen in 9
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Warren & Mahoney Architects4.7 ★ (14) · Architecture firm
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Gravity Architecture5.0 ★ (4) · Architecture firm
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SMC Design Studio5.0 ★ (44) · Architecture firm
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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Where customers find you

South by Southeast Architects shows very high overall health (9.0/10) in Marketbase's social presence and directory assessment. The strongest current strengths are active Instagram and Facebook profiles with high trust, plus an accurate LinkedIn Company listing. The main opportunities relate to expanding presence on TikTok, LinkedIn, TikTok Directory, GrabOne, and Neighbourly to broaden reach while ensuring consistent profile details.

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.
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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/south-by-southeast-architects) found via: Google search results.

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.
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    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 6 of them.
9.0Strong
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TiktokNo account found1
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You are #25 for listings and social
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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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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
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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 carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #63 for your Facebook page
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Your website

South by Southeast Architects shows an average on-page SEO health, with several solid foundations but notable room for improvement in meta and performance. The most important findings are that the site has a valid favicon, HTTPS content, and an SEO-friendly URL, while the page load time exceeds three seconds and the meta description relevance is misaligned.

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 file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.

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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    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
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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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How people find you on Google

South by Southeast Architects shows an average health of 5.7 out of 10 for website traffic, with room to improve paid activity and maintain organic gains. Key findings include no measurable paid traffic yet and no clear paid spend, suggesting a small targeted campaign could help. Organic traffic value is above the 25th percentile, indicating solid fundamentals.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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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.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.8Room to grow
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www.southbysoutheast.co.nzSouth by Southeast

South by Southeast is an award-winning South Island practice. Our work seeks to enhance a sense of place – tūrangawaewae.

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Your hours against demand

South by Southeast Architects' published hours align strongly with weekday lunchtime demand, particularly mid-week. The practice is open during key Wednesday and Thursday noon slots and Tuesday midday. However significant demand around weekend middays is not met-several Saturday and Sunday midday peaks occur while closed. With a high health score (9.2), modest weekend openings or appointment slots could capture unmet enquiries without overextending resources.

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
Opening hoursChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #142 for opening hours
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The next step

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These are your top 21 opportunities, from the 73 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

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#91of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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