Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q3-2026)

One firm below is missing at least one pillar: Local presence (17 of 18). Where a pillar could not be measured for a firm it is excluded from that firm’s score and its remaining weights are renormalised, rather than scored zero — so it is ranked on less evidence than the rest, and its position should be read with that in mind. Affected: Saunders Estate Agents. See the methodology.

The PYC Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Index ranks 18 bristol estate agents on how well they perform online — website speed, technical SEO, local presence, search visibility, AI search presence and content & trust — each scored 0–100 to a single Digital Visibility Score. Measured 27 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 11% of the 18 bristol estate agents measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bristol Estate Agent Digital Visibility Index, measured 27 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 39 of them (32.5%); 96 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (39)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (81)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• rightmove.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• thelettinggame.co.uk — 5 top-10 slots, best #1
• reddit.com — 4 top-10 slots, best #1
• haart.co.uk — 4 top-10 slots, best #3
• alexandermay.co.uk — 3 top-10 slots, best #4

67.5% of the first page belongs to businesses outside this index — directories, national chains and local firms not tracked here. These firms are not mainly competing with each other.

The league table

#	Bristol Estate Agent	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	CJ Hole	79	77	100	86	52	80	66
2	Ocean Estate Agents	75	71	63	99	61	80	75
3	Allen & Harris	67	74	88	89	37	20	80
4	Andrews Property Group	65	69	88	61	33	40	100
5	Boardwalk Property	64	73	75	80	36	40	67
6	Chappell & Matthews	61	77	88	83	41	0	55
7	Knight Frank Bristol	61	45	88	78	32	60	50
8	Hollis Morgan	60	72	75	93	14	0	95
9	Maggs & Allen	59	67	75	99	18	0	80
10	Richard Harding	59	63	88	83	18	20	66
11	Elephant Estate Agents	58	77	88	80	26	20	24
12	Besley Hill	54	84	88	62	0	0	70
13	Goodman & Lilley	52	78	50	85	21	0	58
14	Hydes of Bristol	51	51	100	22	33	20	80
15	Leese & Nagle	50	58	100	67	0	0	45
16	Connells Bristol	44	41	50	80	33	0	50
17	Edison Ford	42	59	75	69	0	0	15
18	Saunders Estate Agents	37	99	38	—	0	0	20

Which keywords are contested, and which are open?

Every firm against every keyword, shaded by position. Darker is stronger; blank means outside the top 100. Read down a column for a contested term, across a row for a firm's reach.

	estate agents	best estate agents	top estate agents	letting agents	sell my house	house valuation	property for sale	estate agent fees	rental properties	estate agents Clifton	estate agents Redland	letting agents Clifton
CJ Hole	10	24	13	8		1	16	16	4	13	15	57
Ocean Estate Agents	6	6	4	15	13	19	4	2	10	9	2	3
Allen & Harris	12	33	20	21		14				1	18	5
Andrews Property Group	42	58				32	6		12	10	44	9
Boardwalk Property	1	1	1		8	25	17			26	7
Chappell & Matthews	39	41	42	23			20		9	11	22	2
Knight Frank Bristol	5	11	15				8			7	6	17
Hollis Morgan					33	57				17
Maggs & Allen	47				7	39		39
Richard Harding						3				3	1	45
Elephant Estate Agents	14	15	22							21	19
Besley Hill
Goodman & Lilley	23	18	16							29	21
Hydes of Bristol	13	17	23			13		13		6	8	6
Leese & Nagle
Connells Bristol	19	32	17	34		2	9			65		74
Edison Ford
Saunders Estate Agents

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

Where each firm is visible

Where each firm is visible: ranked in the organic top 10 for at least one keyword, present in the local 3-pack, or named in at least one AI answer. 5 of 18 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	5	CJ Hole, Ocean Estate Agents, Allen & Harris, Boardwalk Property, Richard Harding
Organic + local pack	2	Chappell & Matthews, Maggs & Allen
Organic + AI	3	Andrews Property Group, Knight Frank Bristol, Hydes of Bristol
Local pack + AI	1	Elephant Estate Agents
Organic only	1	Connells Bristol
Local pack only	1	Hollis Morgan
AI only	0	—
None of the three	5	Besley Hill, Goodman & Lilley, Leese & Nagle, Edison Ford, Saunders Estate Agents

5 of 18 firms are visible in all three channels. 5 appear in none of them.

Search visibility against AI presence

Search visibility against AI search presence. The dashed diagonal is parity; a firm far from it is strong in one channel and weak in the other.

horizontal: search visibility →   vertical: AI presence ↑

Chappell & Matthews is the widest split: search surfaces it far more readily than AI engines name it (visibility 41, AI 0) — search without brand. Those are different problems behind a similar overall score.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

Chappell & Matthews	Chappell & Matthews — estate agents Clifton		#11
Knight Frank Bristol	Knight Frank Bristol — best estate agents Bristol		#11
Allen & Harris	Allen & Harris — estate agents Bristol		#12
Andrews Property Group	Andrews Property Group — rental properties Bristol		#12
CJ Hole	CJ Hole — top estate agents Bristol		#13
CJ Hole	CJ Hole — estate agents Clifton		#13
Ocean Estate Agents	Ocean Estate Agents — sell my house Bristol		#13
Hydes of Bristol	Hydes of Bristol — estate agents Bristol		#13
Hydes of Bristol	Hydes of Bristol — house valuation Bristol		#13
Hydes of Bristol	Hydes of Bristol — estate agent fees Bristol		#13

31 winnable positions across 12 firms sit between #11 and #20 — one page off, and closer than any keyword the index does not already measure.

Reputation: reviews against rating

Google review volume (log scale) against average rating. Bubble size is review count. The rating axis starts at 3.9 so the cluster is readable; one firm rated below that sits on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 18 to 964 and ratings 1.8 to 4.9, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 38 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Boardwalk Property (964). Highest rating: 4 firms tied at 4.9.

What the keyword basket is asking

Search intent across the measured keyword basket, classified by DataForSEO.

commercial		7 of 12
navigational		3 of 12
transactional		2 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “estate agents near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.455, -2.588. North is up; each cell names its position and carries its coordinates and the firms found there. Each cell counts how many indexed firms hold a pack slot at that location; a chain counts wherever any of its branches appears. 7 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 5 of the 18 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

Indexed firms holding a local pack slot, by grid position from north-west to south-east

3NWnorth-west, 51.509, -2.674 — Goodman & Lilley, Ocean Estate Agents, CJ Hole	2Nnorth, 51.509, -2.588 — Ocean Estate Agents, Boardwalk Property	1NEnorth-east, 51.509, -2.501 — CJ Hole
1Wwest, 51.455, -2.674 — Andrews Property Group	·centre, 51.455, -2.588 — no indexed firm in the pack here	1Eeast, 51.455, -2.501 — CJ Hole
1SWsouth-west, 51.400, -2.674 — Andrews Property Group	1Ssouth, 51.400, -2.588 — CJ Hole	SEsouth-east, 51.400, -2.501 — no indexed firm in the pack here

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What changed since last quarter

Change between Q2-2026 and Q3-2026 on the 2 pillars measured in both quarters — Technical and Content & trust. The other pillars were not measured in Q2-2026, so no comparison is possible and none is drawn.

Goodman & Lilley		-50	Technical
Boardwalk Property		+34	Content & trust
CJ Hole		+33	Content & trust
Chappell & Matthews		+22	Content & trust
Leese & Nagle		-22	Content & trust
Allen & Harris		-20	Content & trust
Knight Frank Bristol		+17	Content & trust
Connells Bristol		+17	Content & trust
Edison Ford		+15	Content & trust
Maggs & Allen		+13	Content & trust
Hydes of Bristol		+13	Content & trust
Saunders Estate Agents		-13	Content & trust

Hollow mark is Q2-2026, solid is Q3-2026. Showing the 12 largest of 18 changes. 18 readings unchanged and not drawn, across 12 firms that moved.

Goodman & Lilley moved furthest: Technical down 50 points since Q2-2026. 18 of 36 comparable readings changed at all — which is what a quarter of movement actually looks like.

Which bristol estate agent has the best website?

CJ Hole tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 79/100. Each firm has a full diagnostic scorecard linked from the table above.

How this is measured

Every score follows the same six-pillar methodology: Speed & Core Web Vitals (20%), Technical foundation (20%), Local presence (20%), Visibility (15%), AI search presence (15%) and Content & trust (10%). Each pillar links to the knowledge-base article that explains what it measures; the statistical methods behind the scoring are written up separately. Download the full dataset: JSON · CSV.

Who publishes this

The index is compiled and published by PYC, a search consultancy run by Phil Yarrow. It exists because the questions it answers — who is actually visible in a local market, and by how much — were being answered with opinion. The collection and scoring code is open source, so any figure here can be recomputed rather than taken on trust.

Related reading on the practice behind the measurements: topical authority, generative engine optimisation, and case studies from comparable service businesses.

Using this data

This dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially and in AI-generated answers, provided you credit Phil Yarrow (PYC) by name and link back. That credit is a condition of use, not a courtesy.

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/

That one credit covers every dataset on this site — one figure or all of them. When quoting this particular dataset precisely, the fuller form is:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Bristol Estate Agent, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/bristol-estate-agents/

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