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James Dean Mortgage Solutions

Mortgage broker · Marshland, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 123 Christchurch mortgage brokers.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
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James Dean Mortgage Solutions

Mortgage broker · Marshland, Christchurch

Where you stand#60of 123 mortgage brokers
Overall health5.2/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

James Dean Mortgage Solutions is a mortgage broker based in the Marshland suburb of Christchurch. They specialise in lending services for first-home buyers, investors, refinancing and property developers, plus mortgage-related insurance. Customers report clear communication and quick, efficient processing, with emphasis on an easy online application experience.

James Dean Mortgage Solutions is a mortgage broker located in the Marshland suburb of Christchurch. The firm states a focus on all things lending, covering clients from first-home buyers to investors and property developers, as well as refinancing and mortgage-related insurance.

The business lists services for first home buyers, second home buyers, refinancing, investors, property developers and insurance. The website and directory listing position the team as able to assist across the lifecycle of property ownership and investment, including support for clients working towards multiple properties.

Customer reviews consistently mention clear and timely communication, straightforward and user-friendly online application forms, and efficient follow-up. Review themes highlight helpful advice for first-home purchasers, responsive handling of deadlines, and a professional but easy-going approach that reduces the hassle of securing finance.

Locally, James Dean Mortgage Solutions is positioned as a Christchurch-based mortgage broker with practical experience across common lending needs. Customers can expect a broker that emphasises clear communication, a simple online process and prompt action when progressing mortgage applications.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows a strong setup on Google Business Listing with a health score of 4.9 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. The listing already has a title, open-for-business status, a website link, claimed status and a phone number, which supports easy contact and availability. The two key findings are improving photos and refining the description to reach the local midpoint.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (4)
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From the business

James Dean Mortgage Solutions specialises in everything lending. From assisting you in the process of buying your first home to your 10th investment property, we are here to help you reach your goals, no matter how big or small. First Home Buyers Second Home Buyers Refinancing Investors Property Developers Insurance

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Google listingChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows an overall health score of 2.5 out of 10, indicating low performance in Google reviews. The strongest finding is a top-10% star rating, reflecting high customer satisfaction. However, there is no review response activity yet, and review volume is growing but still modest, suggesting an opportunity to gather more feedback.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
2.5Room to grow
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5.0★★★★★4 reviews 3
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1How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
You are #93 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows an average health in Google Maps search performance with a 5.1 out of 10. The business ranks well for its suburb, Marshland, and notable city-wide keywords, but overall visibility could improve. Top opportunities include lifting aggregate map results and pushing suburb visibility toward the top 10 percentile with continued optimisation of the Google Business Listing.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.6Room to grow
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1Top three for "finance broker" in 2 suburbs, seen in 2
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James Dean Mortgage Solutions✓5.0 ★ (4) · Mortgage broker
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Loan Market Agile5.0 ★ (675) · Mortgage broker
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The Mortgage Guy5.0 ★ (71) · Mortgage broker
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Scott Carragher Mortgage Adviser Mortgagelife Christchurch5.0 ★ (44) · Mortgage broker
Map positionsChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
You are #55 for map positions
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Where customers find you

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows an above-average health score for social presence at 6.7/10, indicating solid overall visibility with room for growth. The business has strong Instagram and Facebook profiles and a LinkedIn presence that supports professional reach. The most impactful findings are the outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles, and the lack of active profiles or listings on several platforms that could broaden reach.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.3Good
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FacebookjamesdeanmortgageadviserJames Dean Mortgage Solutions | Facebook✓
Instagramjd_mortgage_solutionsJames Dean Mortgage Solutions | Instagram✓
LinkedInjames-dean-5768a2bbJames Dean Mortgage Solutions | LinkedIn
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
You are #46 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.

Top three opportunities

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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.1Room to grow
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jamesdeanmortgageadviser✓
460 followers 1
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★ 8 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 jdmortgages.co.nz/links✓
☎ +64 22 042 8757✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
You are #61 for your Facebook page
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Your website

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows average on-page technical health, with a health score of 5.3 out of 10. Strengths include a valid favicon, no frames, fast load under 3 seconds, a relevant title tag, and HTTPS content. Key gaps involve missing meta description, lack of an H1 tag, and render-blocking resources that affect load. These are the main areas to address.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
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    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
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How people find you on Google

James Dean Mortgage Solutions shows a moderate overall health for website traffic, with room to grow paid activity and organic visibility. The most actionable findings focus on paid spend and presence, plus continued momentum from organic traffic. Key next steps involve starting a small paid campaign with targeted landing pages and improving keyword coverage to capture more potential customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.7Room to grow
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31No ads from you on any search
James Dean Mortgage SolutionsNot in these results
2About 11 visits a month from search, across 8 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
You are #53 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

James Dean Mortgage Solutions' open-hours alignment cannot be precisely assessed because city-level popularity data is unavailable. The algorithm returned a very low temporal health score (0.7/10). No specific hours of strong alignment or missed opportunity were identified. The business should review published hours against local search trends and consider simple tests to better match opening times to customer demand.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
10.0Strong
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Hours 1
Monday9am-9pm
Tuesday9am-9pm
Wednesday9am-9pm
Thursday9am-9pm
Friday9am-9pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch mortgage brokers · 123 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#60of 123 Christchurch mortgage brokers
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Christchurch mortgage brokersOverall · 123 businesses
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