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	78	77	100	79	52	80	67
2	Ocean Estate Agents	70	71	63	79	61	80	67
3	Andrews Property Group	64	69	88	60	33	40	100
4	Allen & Harris	63	74	88	78	37	20	67
5	Boardwalk Property	60	73	75	80	36	40	33
6	Elephant Estate Agents	59	77	88	80	26	20	33
7	Knight Frank Bristol	59	45	88	78	32	60	33
8	Richard Harding	59	63	88	80	18	20	67
9	Chappell & Matthews	58	77	88	79	41	0	33
10	Hollis Morgan	57	72	75	79	14	0	100
11	Maggs & Allen	54	67	75	79	18	0	67
12	Besley Hill	53	84	88	61	0	0	67
13	Leese & Nagle	52	58	100	67	0	0	67
14	Hydes of Bristol	49	51	100	22	33	20	67
15	Goodman & Lilley	45	78	50	79	21	0	0
16	Connells Bristol	42	41	50	76	33	0	33
17	Edison Ford	40	59	75	68	0	0	0
18	Saunders Estate Agents	38	99	38	—	0	0	33

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
Andrews Property Group	42	58				32	6		12	10	44	9
Allen & Harris	12	33	20	21		14				1	18	5
Boardwalk Property	1	1	1		8	25	17			26	7
Elephant Estate Agents	14	15	22							21	19
Knight Frank Bristol	5	11	15				8			7	6	17
Richard Harding						3				3	1	45
Chappell & Matthews	39	41	42	23			20		9	11	22	2
Hollis Morgan					33	57				17
Maggs & Allen	47				7	39		39
Besley Hill
Leese & Nagle
Hydes of Bristol	13	17	23			13		13		6	8	6
Goodman & Lilley	23	18	16							29	21
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, Leese & Nagle, Goodman & Lilley, 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.

Knight Frank Bristol	Knight Frank Bristol — best estate agents Bristol		#11
Chappell & Matthews	Chappell & Matthews — estate agents Clifton		#11
Andrews Property Group	Andrews Property Group — rental properties Bristol		#12
Allen & Harris	Allen & Harris — estate agents 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 20 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		-67	Content & trust
Goodman & Lilley		-50	Technical
CJ Hole		+34	Content & trust
Allen & Harris		-33	Content & trust

Hollow mark is Q2-2026, solid is Q3-2026. 32 readings unchanged and not drawn, across 3 firms that moved.

Goodman & Lilley moved furthest: Content & trust down 67 points since Q2-2026. 4 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 78/100. 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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