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Field notes. Digital work.

Notes from the build work: AI search, data safety, conversion, content systems and how websites actually get used.

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Google AI Search Is Changing Real Estate SEO
Blue links are not disappearing tomorrow, but they are no longer the whole game. What Google's own guidance on AI Overviews, AI Mode and query fan-out means for real estate agents.
Jul 26, 2026  ·  7 min read
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"What's My Home Worth?" Is The Most Wasted Question In Real Estate
A home-valuation search is the loudest seller signal there is, and most agents bury it behind a dead web form. Here's how to turn it into a lead you own.
June 2026  ·  5 min read
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First-Home Buyers Are Back. Most Agents Aren't Ready.
As borrowing costs ease, NZ's first-home buyers are quietly back at the calculator. Capture and qualify them now and you own the relationship for a decade.
June 2026  ·  4 min read
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Your Next Ten Listings Are Already In Your Phone
Agents chase cold leads while the warmest sellers sit ignored in their own database, especially the 2020–21 buyers now hitting the NZ sell cycle.
June 2026  ·  4 min read
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How Safe Is Your Client Data in 2026?
Real estate agencies hold deeply sensitive data and most have never run a security audit. With AI tools changing weekly, that's a liability. Here's what to check.
June 2026  ·  8 min read
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Real Estate Lead Generation In 2026: What's Stale, What's Next
The tactics that printed leads in 2024 are background noise now. What's dead, what's merely last year, and what's actually working in NZ right now.
June 2026  ·  8 min read
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Most Real Estate Leads Don't Die. They Go Cold.
The money in 2026 isn't in more leads. It's in the follow-up almost nobody is doing properly. Here's what lead nurture looks like now.
June 2026  ·  7 min read
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How Retargeting Ads Keep Real Estate Agents Impossible To Ignore
Retargeting ads, pixels, owned websites and why real estate agents need control of their own funnel instead of sending traffic to someone else.
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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Your CRM Might Be Costing You Repeat Business
Most real estate CRMs are built for the office, not the agent. Here is what agents should demand from the system holding their relationships.
May 2026  ·  8 min read
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The Future Of Real Estate Prospecting Is Smarter Follow-Up
How AI assistants, SMS, website signals and clean data can create automated prospecting that still sounds like the agent.
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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Real Estate Agents Need To Rank In AI Answers
AI search changes how agents build authority online. Corporate profile pages are not enough if you want to be understood as the local expert.
May 2026  ·  8 min read
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Stop Letting GPT Write Your Real Estate Bio
AI can help you write, but your agent bio still needs proof, specificity, personality and a reason for a vendor to trust you.
May 2026  ·  6 min read
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Real Estate Reels Are Not Enough Anymore
Reels still work, but the market is saturated. Agents need creative testing, owned traffic, retargeting and interactive engagement tools.
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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Your Website Is More Than a Digital Business Card
Google, AI models and future vendors judge more than the words on your page. Speed, trust, structure and performance matter.
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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Free PDF Tools and the Documents You Probably Shouldn't Be Uploading
You drag a Sale and Purchase agreement into a free PDF tool and it is done in thirty seconds. But where did that document just go?
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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The Page I Send Every Vendor the Day They Book Me
I built a bespoke digital experience for every vendor who books me to auction their home. This is what it does, how it works and why process is the product.
May 2026  ·  7 min read
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What a Real Estate Agent Website Should Actually Do
Your website is not a business card. It is a working part of your business. Here is what I learned building Leanne Stewart's site from the ground up, and what most agents are missing.
May 2026  ·  8 min read
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What If Your Marketing Was Actually Fun?
Everyone's good at real estate marketing right now. That's the problem. Here's what happens when you stop running the same ad and build something people actually want to play.
May 2026  ·  3 min read
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Fuel Is Expensive. Your Marketing Should Work Harder.
Petrol is above $3 a litre and buyers are doing maths they didn't used to do. Here's how a free interactive commute cost map changed the conversation before the pitch even started.
May 2026  ·  4 min read

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