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Delivered benchmarks
Real estate cost-per-lead benchmarks, from delivered campaigns
Published 2026-08-11 · updated 2026-09-09 · 6 min read
Benchmarks are only useful when the quality rate is attached, because a cheap lead nobody can reach is not a benchmark, it is a rounding error. These are delivered figures from our own engagements, with the quality rate published beside each one.
Collected Ongoing, figures current to August 2026
Method Figures are taken from delivered engagements: media spend from the client's own ad account divided by leads generated, with the sales-ready rate scored by the client's sales team rather than by us.
Sample Drawn from 32+ delivered engagements and ₹6 lakh a month and above of media under management. Individual benchmarks are named to the engagement type rather than pooled into an average.
Limits These are our results on our engagements, not an industry survey. Cost per lead varies with ticket size, catchment and targeting width, so a benchmark from a premium North Bangalore launch does not transfer to a Tier-2 plotted development. Past results are not forecasts.
The delivered figures
The working cost-per-lead band for Bangalore residential is ₹350–₹500. Delivered: ₹266 per lead at 51% sales-ready on a premium North Bangalore residential launch, and approximately ₹450 per lead at roughly 22,000 leads a month across an enterprise portfolio. Tier-2 Karnataka has run at roughly half the Bangalore cost per lead.
| Context | Cost per lead | Quality rate | Effective cost per useful lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium North Bangalore residential | ₹266 | 51% sales-ready | ~₹520 |
| Enterprise portfolio, ~22,000 leads/mo | ~₹450 | Not separately published | — |
| Bangalore residential, working band | ₹350–500 | Varies | — |
| Tier-2 Karnataka plotted | ~half Bangalore | Varies | — |
Why the second column is the important one
A ₹200 lead at 15% sales-ready costs ₹1,333 per lead worth working. A ₹600 lead at 60% costs ₹1,000. The cheaper headline is the worse deal, and the headline is what gets quoted.
This is why the ₹266 figure is published as "₹266 at 51%" and never as ₹266. Detached from its quality rate it becomes a claim we would not stand behind, because it invites a comparison against numbers that have had their quality rate quietly removed.
What moves these numbers
- Ticket size. A ₹45 lakh plot and a ₹3 crore villa are not in the same auction. The villa costs several times more per lead and is worth several times more per booking.
- Catchment competitiveness. North and East Bangalore during launch season carry far more advertisers bidding for the same audience than Mysore does, and the auction prices accordingly.
- Targeting width. Broader targeting lowers cost per lead and lowers quality with it, almost exactly in step. A campaign optimised to a low CPL is usually a campaign optimised to a low-quality lead.
- Optimisation event. Campaigns optimised for form fills produce cheaper, worse leads than campaigns optimised against a downstream CRM qualification event.
Using these to build a budget
Take your target bookings, multiply by 100 for raw leads — the planning ratio until your own sales data proves better — and multiply by a cost per lead from the band that matches your ticket size and catchment.
Ten bookings at a ₹400 cost per lead implies roughly ₹4,00,000 of media across the launch window. Then check it the other way: divide that media by the units and ask whether the per-unit marketing cost works against your margin. If it does not, the constraint is the price or the product, and no amount of advertising resolves it.
Questions about this research
What is a good cost per lead for real estate in Bangalore?
₹350–₹500 is the working band for Bangalore residential, moving with ticket size and catchment. Any CPL figure should be read together with a sales-ready rate — without it the number cannot be compared to anything.
What is the lowest cost per lead you have delivered?
₹266 on a premium North Bangalore residential launch, at a 51% sales-ready rate scored by the client's own sales team — an effective cost of about ₹520 per lead worth working.
Are leads cheaper in Mysore and Tier-2 Karnataka?
Yes, roughly half the Bangalore cost per lead in delivered work, because the auction is far less contested. The sales cycle is also slower, so the advantage is smaller in cost per booking than it looks in cost per lead.
Do these benchmarks apply to my project?
Only as a starting point. They are our results on our engagements, and cost per lead varies sharply with ticket size, catchment and targeting. Replace them with your own numbers as soon as you have 200 leads and a full sales cycle behind them.
Citing this Published by QD & Co., Ongoing, figures current to August 2026. Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0) — please link to https://qdnco.com/data/real-estate-cost-per-lead-benchmarks.html so the method travels with the number.
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