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Mortgage broker ads in Halifax: C$16.42 a click

A Google Ads click for a mortgage broker in Halifax costs C$16.42 at the search-weighted average (155 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 29.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$16.42
Searches a month
155
Year on year
down 29.0%
Click cost per booked loan
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked loan

What a booked loan costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked loan in Halifax is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Halifax figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked loan
General searchesC$14.31put in your rates
Near meC$25.35put in your rates

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the mortgage broker searches are in Halifax

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Halifax, at 76.1%.

In Halifax, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$25.35 a click.

General searches

“mortgage broker”
Searches a month118, 76.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$14.31

Near me

“mortgage broker near me”
Searches a month28, 18.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$25.35

Specific jobs

“investment property loan”, “construction loan broker”, “mortgage broker fees”
Searches a month9, 5.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
Plan

Plan a month of mortgage broker ads in Halifax

Put in your own value per loan and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
60.9
Calls or forms
1.6
Booked loans
put in yours
Click cost per booked loan
put in yours

C$1,000 at C$16.42 a click buys about 60.9 clicks a month.

Put in your call and booking rates to see how many booked loans this buys.

Put in your value per loan and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every mortgage broker keyword tracked in Halifax

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched mortgage broker keywords in Halifax are “mortgage broker” (118 searches a month at C$14.31 a click), “mortgage broker near me” (28 searches a month at C$25.35 a click), and “mortgage broker fees” (7 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Halifax, “mortgage broker near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$25.35 a click, 42.7% above the C$17.76 median click price for mortgage broker across this country's tracked cities.

In Halifax, “construction loan broker” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Halifax, 2 of the 5 counted mortgage broker keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
mortgage brokerGeneral searches118C$14.31
mortgage broker near meNear me28C$25.35
mortgage broker feesSpecific jobs7no price
investment property loanSpecific jobs2no price
construction loan brokerSpecific jobs0no price
Ranks and trend

How Halifax compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, mortgage brokers searches in Halifax peaked in May 2025 at 280 and were lowest in July 2023 at 50. Halifax's single latest tracked month is down 31.6% on the same month a year ago and down 23.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Halifax, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "investment property loan", down 66.7%.

  • Halifax is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Halifax is 12th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Halifax is the only city in Nova Scotia in this set, so there is no same-province rank.
  • Halifax's 28.4 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 44.3 for this service.
  • Halifax's median mortgage broker click price of C$16.42 is 7.5% below the country median of C$17.76.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 29.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Halifax, searches peak in March, about 35.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in November.
Businesses

Mortgage broker businesses in Halifax

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for mortgage brokers in Halifax at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Halifax only for broader industry groups, which mix mortgage brokers with other businesses. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many mortgage brokers work here.

Population: 544,834 (Halifax (CMA), Nova Scotia). Source: Statistics Canada table 17-10-0148-01, population estimates by CMA/CA, July 1 vintage.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

Mortgage broker click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 3rd of 6 countries by median mortgage broker click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$9.4896.75
New ZealandUS$12.2197.66
Canada
this page's country
US$12.7144.313
AustraliaUS$19.96140.925
United KingdomUS$20.6134.125
United StatesUS$24.0220.950

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules

Rules for mortgage brokers in Canada

Licensing is set by each province or territory.

FAQ

Questions people ask about mortgage broker ads in Halifax

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a mortgage broker in Halifax?

C$16.42 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted mortgage broker search terms in Halifax (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Halifax is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a mortgage broker in Halifax each month?

155 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 29.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked loan cost in clicks for mortgage brokers in Halifax?

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Population and business counts: StatCan publishes CMA/CSD-level business counts (table 33-10-1016-01) to 4-digit NAICS only (verified: max classificationCode length 4 across all 445 members). NAICS 522321 shares its 4-digit group 5223 with other 6-digit codes, so the 6-digit figure cannot be isolated at CMA geography without silently substituting the coarser group. Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for Canada, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Halifax with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked loan is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to CAD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 CAD = 0.7157 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Finance & Insurance
Published benchmark, cited
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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