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Builder ads in Dunedin: NZ$2.33 a click

A Google Ads click for a renovation builder in Dunedin costs NZ$2.33 at the search-weighted average (99 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 35.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$2.33
Searches a month
99
Year on year
down 35.0%
Click cost per booked job
NZ$69

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about NZ$69 in clicks at NZ$2.33 a click.

In Dunedin, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at NZ$1.50. The highest click price on this page in Dunedin is near me at NZ$4.37.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about NZ$69 in clicks at NZ$2.33 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesNZ$3.12NZ$92
Near meNZ$4.37NZ$129
Specific jobsNZ$1.50NZ$44

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

By intent

Where the builder searches are in Dunedin

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

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Dunedin, at 68.0%.

In Dunedin, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$4.37 a click.

General searches

“renovation builder”, “home builder”
Searches a month20, 20.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$3.12

Near me

Highest click price on this page
“builders near me”
Searches a month12, 12.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$4.37
In Dunedin, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“home renovations”, “kitchen renovation”, “bathroom renovation”, “home extensions”, “custom home builder”, “house extensions”
Searches a month68, 68.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$1.50
In Dunedin, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“new home builder”
Searches a month12
Click price, weighted avgNZ$3.09
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of builder ads in Dunedin

Put in your own value per job 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
429.2
Calls or forms
34.5
Booked jobs
14.5
Click cost per booked job
NZ$69

NZ$1,000 at NZ$2.33 a click buys about 429.2 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 34.5 calls and 14.5 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about NZ$69 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every builder keyword tracked in Dunedin

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 builder keywords in Dunedin are “bathroom renovation” (21 searches a month at NZ$2.38 a click), “kitchen renovation” (18 searches a month at NZ$0.47 a click), and “builders near me” (12 searches a month at NZ$4.37 a click).

In Dunedin, “kitchen renovation” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$0.47 a click, 96.2% below the NZ$12.52 median click price for builder across this country's tracked cities.

In Dunedin, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Dunedin, 4 of the 9 counted builder keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
home builderGeneral searches10NZ$3.12
renovation builderGeneral searches10no price
builders near meNear me12NZ$4.37
bathroom renovationSpecific jobs21NZ$2.38
kitchen renovationSpecific jobs18NZ$0.47
custom home builderSpecific jobs11no price
home renovationsSpecific jobs9no price
house extensionsSpecific jobs7no price
home extensionsSpecific jobs2no price
new home builder
Related, not counted
Related keywords12NZ$3.09
Ranks and trend

How Dunedin compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, renovation builders searches in Dunedin peaked in April 2025 at 360 and were lowest in December 2022 at 50. Dunedin's single latest tracked month is level with the same month a year ago and level with the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Dunedin, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "renovation builder", down 75.5%.

  • Dunedin is 1st of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Dunedin is 6th of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Dunedin is the only city in the Otago region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Dunedin sits in Otago, which is 3rd of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 31.4 businesses per 10,000 people across Otago).
  • Dunedin's 75.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 91.3 for this service.
  • Dunedin's median builder click price of NZ$2.33 is 81.4% below the country median of NZ$12.52.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 35.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Dunedin, searches peak in April, about 56.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Builder businesses in Dunedin

Stats NZ counts 414 businesses in this industry in Dunedin (February 2025), about 31.4 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: geographic units, randomly rounded to base 3.

Population: 131,800 (Dunedin). Source: Stats NZ subnational population estimates at 30 June, by urban area.

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

6 countries

Builder click prices in 6 countries

New Zealand is 4th of 6 countries by median builder 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$2.7685.85
United KingdomUS$4.3853.225
AustraliaUS$6.72155.425
New Zealand
this page's country
US$7.2191.36
CanadaUS$9.3183.813
United StatesUS$18.5075.950

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 renovation builders in New Zealand

Regulator or register: Licensed Building Practitioners (LBP) scheme.

Restricted building work must be carried out or supervised by a Licensed Building Practitioner.

FAQ

Questions people ask about builder ads in Dunedin

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a renovation builder in Dunedin?

NZ$2.33 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted builder search terms in Dunedin (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Dunedin is 1st of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for a renovation builder in Dunedin each month?

99 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 35.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for renovation builders in Dunedin?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about NZ$69 in clicks at NZ$2.33 a click.

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). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: Stats NZ: Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by industry 2025 -- via Figure.NZ chart mirror. 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 New Zealand, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Dunedin 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 job 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$; they convert to NZD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 NZD = 0.5760 US$).

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), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, February 2025
CC BY 4.0, Stats NZ
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: Builder in Auckland, Builder in Christchurch, Builder in Wellington, Builder across New Zealand, All services in Dunedin.

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