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Mortgage broker ads in Belfast: £4.93 a click

A Google Ads click for a mortgage broker in Belfast costs £4.93 at the search-weighted average (75 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 52.1% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
£4.93
Searches a month
75
Year on year
down 52.1%
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 Belfast is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Belfast figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked loan
General searches£5.23put in your rates
Specific jobs£3.48put 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 Belfast

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 Belfast, at 57.3%.

In Belfast, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.23 a click.

General searches

“mortgage broker”, “home loan broker”
Searches a month43, 57.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£5.23

Near me

“mortgage broker near me”
Searches a month10, 13.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

“first home buyer loan”, “refinance home loan”, “investment property loan”, “home loan pre-approval”, “self employed home loan”, “construction loan broker”, “mortgage broker fees”
Searches a month22, 29.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.48

Related keywords

Not counted
“best home loan rates”
Searches a month1
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 mortgage broker ads in Belfast

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
202.8
Calls or forms
5.4
Booked loans
put in yours
Click cost per booked loan
put in yours

£1,000 at £4.93 a click buys about 202.8 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 Belfast

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 Belfast are “mortgage broker” (43 searches a month at £5.23 a click), “mortgage broker near me” (10 searches a month with no Google click price), and “mortgage broker fees” (9 searches a month at £3.48 a click).

In Belfast, “mortgage broker fees” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £3.48 a click, 77.4% below the £15.37 median click price for mortgage broker across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Belfast, 2 of the 10 counted mortgage broker keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
mortgage brokerGeneral searches43£5.23
home loan brokerGeneral searches0no price
mortgage broker near meNear me10no price
mortgage broker feesSpecific jobs9£3.48
first home buyer loanSpecific jobs8no price
home loan pre-approvalSpecific jobs3no price
investment property loanSpecific jobs1no price
self employed home loanSpecific jobs1no price
construction loan brokerSpecific jobs0no price
refinance home loanSpecific jobs0no price
best home loan rates
Related, not counted
Related keywords1no price
Ranks and trend

How Belfast compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, mortgage brokers searches in Belfast peaked in July 2023 at 1,050 and were lowest in December 2025 at 40. Belfast's single latest tracked month is down 44.4% on the same month a year ago and down 54.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Belfast, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "home loan broker", down 100.0%.

  • Belfast is 1st of 22 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Belfast is 18th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Belfast is the only city in Northern Ireland in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Belfast sits in Northern Ireland, which is 14th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 3.7 businesses per 10,000 people across Northern Ireland).
  • Belfast's 21.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 34.1 for this service.
  • Belfast's median mortgage broker click price of £4.93 is 67.9% below the country median of £15.37.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 52.1% on the 12 months before.
  • In Belfast, searches peak in July, about 137.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in August.
Businesses

Mortgage broker businesses in Belfast

The Office for National Statistics counts 130 businesses in this industry in Belfast (2026), about 3.7 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.

Population: 351,927 (Belfast). Source: ONS mid-year population estimates via Nomis, dataset NM_2002_1, 2025.

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

United Kingdom is 5th 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
CanadaUS$12.7144.313
AustraliaUS$19.96140.925
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$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 the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Mortgage brokers must be FCA-authorised, or an appointed representative of an FCA-authorised firm.

FAQ

Questions people ask about mortgage broker ads in Belfast

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

£4.93 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted mortgage broker search terms in Belfast (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Belfast is 1st of 22 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.

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

75 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 52.1% 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 Belfast?

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: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). 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 United Kingdom, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Belfast 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$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

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
Business counts, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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