# What it looks like when the data gets cited

Microsoft reports 56.4K citations of REN.PH in 39 days. Google reports 621,552 generative AI impressions in 77 days. The console exports, the per-query citation share, what the answers look like, and what none of it proves.

Source: https://martenfield.com/evidence/ren-ph/
Published: 2026-08-01
Updated: 2026-08-06
Type: evidence
Subject: REN.PH (https://ren.ph)
Data collected: 2026-08-05
Figures from: Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance, 25 June to 2 August 2026, for the citation counts and citation shares. Google Search Console generative AI features, 18 May to 2 August 2026, for the impressions and the page composition. Both exported 5 August 2026. The dataset counts are not from either export: they state their own collection date in the text, and carry their own stamp on About. The engine captures are from June 2026. One is dated to the second from the search timestamp inside its own screenshot, the other three to the month only, and the page says which is which where it shows them.
Method: Console exports read as published, and logged-out engine sessions

What this is not: This is our own property, not a client engagement. Nothing here was measured against a baseline, so there is no before and after, and no client outcome is being described. Both consoles call their own figures partial: the Bing query export accounts for about half the citations Bing reports, and the Google page export covers about two thirds of its impressions. The engine captures are single samples of a system that answers differently on different runs, and three of the four are dated to the month rather than the day. We are the interested party in reading any of it as a mechanism.

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We operate REN.PH, a Philippine real estate data platform holding 234,337
zonal value rows and 25,264 broker records, structured to barangay level across
37,660 barangays. Counted against the operational database on 8 June 2026.

This page is what the engines did with it. It is our own property rather than
a client engagement, which is the only reason we can publish the console
exports in full instead of describing them.

## Citation share, from Microsoft's own console

Bing Webmaster Tools reports AI citation data for any site you verify, sourced
from Microsoft Copilots and partners. 25 June to 2 August 2026:

![Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance report for ren.ph, showing 56.4K total citations and 170 average cited pages over the six month view](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/bing-ai-performance.png)

| Figure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total citations reported | 56.4K, as the console displays it |
| Average cited pages | 170 |
| Days in the window | 39 |
| Grounding queries in the export | 124 |
| Citations across those 124 queries | 28,233 |
| Median citation share across them | 26.3% |
| Queries above 30% share | 47 |

Three things in that table need saying before anyone quotes it.

**The headline is rounded and the export is not.** Bing prints 56.4K, which is
anywhere from 56,350 to 56,449, and it is the only form of that figure the
interface gives. The 28,233 is a sum of exported rows and is exact. We are not
going to turn the first into 56,400 so the pair looks like arithmetic.

**The 124 queries do not add up to the total.** They add up to 28,233, which is
close to half of the 56.4K the console reports, and the rounding above is why
that is "close to half" rather than a figure to a decimal place. The rest is a
tail Bing does not export. So the median and the share figures describe about
half the citations, and the other half is a number we can see the size of and
nothing else.

**The window is 39 days, not six months.** The screenshot has the 6-month view
selected and returns the same figure, because 25 June is when the property was
connected to Bing Webmaster Tools. There is no earlier data to show.

Microsoft's own caveat, stated because it belongs here: the data shown
represents a sample of overall activity and results may be refined as more is
processed.

### Per query, on the five highest-volume terms

| Grounding query | Citations | Citation share |
|---|---|---|
| zonal value bir 2026 | 7,164 | 33.1% |
| bir zonal value 2026 | 6,190 | 34.7% |
| bir zonal value | 3,944 | 38.3% |
| zonal value | 1,949 | 27.8% |
| 4ph program pag ibig | 1,366 | 6.4% |

The fifth row is there because it is the fifth row. On the query with the
fifth-highest citation count in the export, REN.PH holds 6.4% share and is a
minor source. It is a housing programme question rather than a valuation
question, and the dataset has nothing specific to say about it.

Citation share across the 124 queries ranges from 5.6% to 64.7%. Each of those
is Bing's figure for a query, not a run of ours: nothing on this page is the
5-engine, 3-run method we sell, and "run" means something specific there.
The highest figures sit
on the smallest queries: 64.7% is 11 citations on "zonal value san pablo city
per sq mt". Read the 38.3% on "bir zonal value" as the meaningful one, because
3,944 citations is a number that survives a slow week.

The top 5 queries account for 73% of the exported citations. This is a
concentrated result on one topic, not broad coverage.

**This is the citation half, measured by the engine rather than by us.**
Recommendation share is what our higher retainer tier contracts on, and Bing
does not report it.
Nothing on this page shows whether a model named REN.PH as a vendor to
consider, because a data platform is not what a buyer asks a model to
recommend. Citation share is the metric that fits this property, and it is the
narrower of the two.

## Generative AI impressions, from Google

Google Search Console's Generative AI features report, 18 May to 2 August
2026, 77 days: **621,552 impressions**.

![Google Search Console Generative AI features report for ren.ph, showing 622k total impressions with the chart beginning 18 May 2026](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/gsc-generative-ai-features.png)

The report is in beta and Google labels it so in the interface.

The screenshot has the 3-month filter selected and the chart still begins on 18
May. Three months back would reach early May, so 18 May is where Google's data
starts rather than a range we chose. The 6-month view returns the same series.

Of those impressions, 557,826 are from the Philippines, which is 89.7%. This is
a Philippine audience, including Filipinos abroad researching property at home.
Nothing here is a claim about reach into any other market.

## What gets cited is the page that owns one answer

The composition of those impressions is the most useful finding on this page
for anyone deciding what to publish.

Google exports the top 1,000 pages, which carry 419,875 impressions, or 67.6%
of the total. Within that:

| Section | Impressions | Share of the export |
|---|---|---|
| /tools/ | 304,377 | 72.5% |
| /academy/ | 88,841 | 21.2% |
| /guides/ | 10,916 | 2.6% |

| Page | Impressions |
|---|---|
| /tools/zonal-value | 30,199 |
| /tools/transfer-tax-calculator | 26,739 |
| /tools/pagibig-housing-loan-calculator | 21,675 |
| /academy/courses/real-estate-math-essentials/commission-calculations | 11,823 |
| /academy/courses/rent-control-essentials/deposits-and-advance-rent | 10,251 |
| /guides/how-to-transfer-property-title-philippines | 5,802 |
| /guides/how-to-compute-property-value-philippines | 3,857 |

The easy read is that tools get cited and writing does not. That is not what
the export says, and we drafted this page with that claim in it before checking.

The second-largest section is course lessons, which are written prose, and they
pull 8 times what the guides pull. Commission calculations. Deposits and
advance rent. Lot area and pricing. Every one of them is an article that owns
one specific procedure and answers it with a number.

The guides are also articles. They discuss a topic across several thousand
words and they sit at 2.6%.

So the split is not calculators against writing. It is pages that own one
specific answer against pages that cover a subject. A calculator is the purest
form of the first kind, which is why the tools lead, and a lesson on how a
commission is computed is the same shape in prose.

## What the answers actually look like

Captures from June 2026, logged-out sessions, one run each. We recorded the
month and not the day. One of the four dates itself and three do not, which is
the gap: the rest of this page dates everything to a day because we can.
Anything captured since carries a date, and these three are not re-datable
after the fact.

**Google AI Overview, Bahay Toro, Quezon City. 4 June 2026, 09:53 UTC.** Two
REN.PH pages are the first two sources in the panel, for the headline barangay
range. A Facebook post, a law firm page and a Scribd document appear against
smaller fragments of the answer.

The timestamp is not something we wrote down. It is inside the screenshot. Every
Google results URL carries an `ei` parameter, and the first four bytes of that
value, base64url decoded and read as a little-endian integer, are the Unix time
the search ran. The address bar is legible in the capture below, so you can
decode it yourself rather than take the date from us. The other three captures
are on engines whose URLs carry no time: Perplexity's is a random UUID, and
both ChatGPT ones are the bare domain.

![Google AI Overview for the query bahay toro quezon city zonal value, with two REN.PH pages listed first in the sources panel](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/bahay-toro-qc-ai-overview.png)

**Perplexity, Taguig City.** REN.PH is cited 7 times in a single answer,
including on the median, on the highest and lowest values, and on the closing
statement about which BIR district publishes them.

![Perplexity answer on Taguig City zonal values with seven separate REN.PH citation chips through the answer](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/perplexity-taguig.png)

**ChatGPT, San Antonio, Makati.** Every citation in the answer leads with
REN.PH, across a barangay-level value table and a list of street-level
examples.

![ChatGPT answer on San Antonio Makati zonal values, with ren.ph leading every citation chip](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/san-antonio-makati-chatgpt.png)

**ChatGPT, Immaculate Concepcion, Quezon City.** The answer grounds a
street-level table down to individual roads: E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave. at ₱140,000
per sqm, New York St. at ₱135,000, Aurora Blvd. at ₱115,000, and three more.
The citations sit on the statements around the table rather than inside its
rows.

![ChatGPT answer on Immaculate Concepcion Cubao zonal values, with a table of six named streets and their individual residential zonal values](https://martenfield.com/images/evidence/ren-ph/immaculate-concepcion-qc-chatgpt.png)

On city-level head terms the answers are contested and REN.PH appears
alongside other sources. The further a question drills down, the more often it
is the only source cited, because most competitors stop at the city level.

## Why the engines cite it

An engine rewrites a question into smaller ones, retrieves passage-sized
chunks to answer each, and attaches a citation claim by claim. A page wins that
citation when it is the lowest-risk way to ground a specific claim.

Each figure on REN.PH is specific, traced to a government geographic code and
the tax department order it came from, current, and published on its own page.
When someone asks for the value of a particular barangay, the engine does not
assemble an answer from fragments. A source owns the claim, so it cites it.

The opposite case is what happens when no page owns the answer. Engines still
return a confident number, and the page cited for it sometimes does not contain
that figure at all.

## How it was built

Five stages, each handing off to the next. Architect, research, normalizer,
validator, publisher.

The validator is the one that decides everything downstream. Every value is
cross-checked against its source record and tied to the geographic code and the
government order it came from. That grounding is why the data is citable. An
engine can trace a figure back to an official document, which is the signal it
needs to cite a source rather than generate one.

The automation was never the point. The point was that every figure had to be
defensible against its source before it went live.

## What produced the result, and what did not

REN.PH has no advertising spend in any market. It has no link-building campaign
behind it. It is not a recognised brand outside the Philippines, and the queries
it wins are not brand queries.

What it has is 234,337 rows of specific data, each one traceable to the
document it came from, each one on a page that owns its claim.

That combination is the whole explanation, and it is the part that transfers.
If you are competing against an incumbent with twenty years of domain history
and a budget you cannot match, owning the specific number is a different game
from outspending them.

## What transfers to a proptech company

The data types are the same object class. Zonal values, broker records and
transaction history are structurally the same as rent comps, cap rates,
absorption and cost benchmarks. Specific, sourced, and the thing a buyer asks
for by name.

Most proptech and CRE software companies already hold that data. It sits inside
the product, behind a login, where no model can reach it. Their marketing
publishes trend commentary and competes with every other company publishing
trend commentary.

The work is the same as the work above. One page per entity, every figure
traceable to its source, provenance visible rather than asserted. Then measure
whether the engines start citing it.

That measurement is free, on your own site, today. Bing Webmaster Tools reports
AI citations and citation share. Google Search Console reports generative AI
impressions. Most companies have switched on neither.

## What this does not show

We have not tested all 37,660 barangays. Four captures are four samples, and
citation results vary by engine, by phrasing and by run.

AI answers are non-deterministic. Your result on the same query may differ from
ours. We measure citation frequency over time rather than treating a single
capture as an outcome.

Both console exports are partial and we have said where. Bing exports 124
queries covering half the citations it reports. Google exports 1,000 pages
covering two thirds of its impressions. The sections below those thresholds are
not described here because we cannot see them.

Neither console reports what share of the answer we won, only that we were
cited. A citation on a fragment counts the same as a citation on the headline
figure, and the captures above are the only place on this page you can see the
difference.

On city-level queries the answers are contested and REN.PH is one source among
several. The pattern holds below the city level, which is where the data is
more specific than anyone else's.

Google's generative AI report is beta. Counts are operational database coverage
and shift as records are re-grounded.

This is one property in one country on one topic, run by the firm publishing
the page about it. It is a mechanism with numbers attached, not a result we
have reproduced for anybody else yet.