SECTOR

AI visibility for New Zealand real estate agencies

Real estate is our biggest study and the most crowded of the property and professional sectors. The ten most named brands take 30 percent of all mentions, and the site AI points at most is a review site rather than an agency.

AI also shows a source here less often than anywhere else we measure. Only about half of the mentions we recorded came with one.

A review site and the national brands take the answer

The site AI points at most in New Zealand real estate answers is an agent review site, ahead of every agency in the country. Behind it sit the big national brands. Between them they take a share no other sector's leaders come close to.

For an individual agent or an independent agency, that is the whole problem. The AI is not reading your site. It is reading the site that rates you.

336
runs measured
1259
businesses named by AI
54
percent of mentions carrying a citation
HOW THIS SECTOR COMPARES

Overlap between what AI says from memory and after searching

Every sector we measure, ranked. A lower number means the two answers name almost entirely different businesses, so a business has to be won twice.

Real estate
Premium tourism
19
Immigration
5
Real estate
10
Cosmetic medicine
10
Private healthcare
18
Financial services
6
Law firms
13

What we ran

Three roles with 56 questions each, residential agents, commercial agents and property managers, put to five AI tools both ways, across 18 New Zealand locations. It is the biggest question set we run.

What this means if you sell or manage property

Your review site profile is doing more work than your website, and most agencies have never thought of it that way. Getting it complete, accurate and matching everything else about you is the best hour you can spend in this sector.

The missing sources are the second story. Half the time AI names a brand here without saying where it got the information, which means the reputation already inside the AI matters more than any page you can edit.

how we measure what AI says

Common questions

Do AI answers recommend specific real estate agents in New Zealand?

Yes, though more often by naming a national brand or quoting a review site than by naming an individual agent. The site AI points at most in this sector is an agent review site.

Why is real estate harder than other sectors?

It is crowded at the top. The ten most named brands take 30 percent of mentions, more than any other sector we track, and only about half of mentions come with a source at all.

Which roles did you measure?

Residential real estate agents, commercial real estate agents and property managers, with 56 questions each across 18 New Zealand locations.

See where you sit in this market

We will run your market's questions and show you the result before you commit to anything. Phone 027 368 0892 or email rob@citable.co.nz.