Self-employed leads

Self-employed mortgage leads for UK brokers

Pay-per-show self-employed appointments, the complex-income cases the high street pushes away. Employment and income on the card before you claim. £110 per show. Credits refund on no-show.

Lee Horton
Lee Horton · Co-founder, MortgagesBooked
Published 30 Jun 2026 · 5 min read · Updated 30 Jun 2026
What every credit buys

You buy a booked appointment, in a live calendar, with a diary entry on both sides.

Typical lead sites
  • You buy a contact detail
  • You cold-call to introduce yourself
  • You chase for a date and time
  • You pay whether they answer or not
  • A lot of them never reply back
MortgagesBooked
  • You buy a booked calendar slot
  • They picked the time themselves
  • You turn up to the live meeting
  • If they no-show, your credit refunds
  • You only pay when they show up
How a self-employed lead reaches your portal
  1. Sees an ad on Facebook, Instagram, or Google and clicks through.
  2. Tells the qualifier whether it's a remortgage or purchase, residential or buy-to-let.
  3. Answers the employment question honestly. This flags the case as self-employed on the card.
  4. Shares income, plus any other income, for the funding check.
  5. Clears our funding minimum so casual browsers don't get through.
  6. Enters email and phone. Both get validated before anything goes live.
  7. Opens a live calendar and picks a specific slot for the broker call.
  8. Shows up in your portal as a claimable appointment with employment visible (one credit).

What is a self-employed lead?

A self-employed mortgage lead is a UK borrower whose income comes from their own business rather than a monthly payslip. Sole traders, partnerships, limited company directors, day-rate contractors. On MortgagesBooked, a self-employed lead is someone who's flagged self-employment in our qualifier, cleared the funding threshold, and booked a calendar slot with a broker.

This is the group the high street pushes away. Automated affordability models struggle with retained profit, dividends, and fluctuating day rates, so these borrowers need a human who knows which lenders read accounts properly. That's why a pre-qualified self-employed appointment is worth more than a generic "mortgage" lead. You already know, before the call, that this is a fact find worth having.

What's captured on every enquiry

Every self-employed lead arrives with the data you need before the call:

  • Employment status. Self-employed, flagged on the card before you claim
  • Income, plus any other income declared
  • Property type. Residential or buy-to-let
  • Remortgage or purchase, with balance or deposit
  • Property value and postcode
  • Credit profile. Clean, light adverse, or heavier issues
  • Age
  • Verified email and UK mobile. Both validated before release
  • Appointment time booked in a live calendar

All of this is on the card before you claim. The trading history, the accounts, the exact business structure: that's your fact find, not something we pretend to capture from a quiz. You're buying a booked appointment with the right kind of applicant, not a pre-underwritten file.

How employment shows on the card

Employment status is the single field that separates a quick payslip case from a proper self-employed fact find. So it sits on the lead card, alongside income, property type, and credit, before you spend a credit. You can see at a glance whether this is the kind of case you want to claim. This is how a self-employed appointment looks in your marketplace:

Illustrative card, built from the real answer options the qualifier stores. Employment is one of six options the applicant picks (Employed, Self-Employed, Sole Trader, Ltd Company Director, Retired, Unemployed). Name, email and phone stay hidden until you claim.

The income picture you get

Self-employed income is rarely one clean figure, so we capture more than a single salary box. Every card shows the applicant's declared income, plus any other income they've listed on top, like a second business, a rental, or a partner's earnings. It won't replace pulling the accounts. What it does do is tell you roughly how affordability stacks before you spend a credit, and whether you're likely looking at a high-street lender or a more generous specialist.

Why self-employed cases are worth more

Self-employed appointments are some of the best value on the platform, for a few reasons.

  • They can't self-serve. A direct-to-lender application falls apart the moment the affordability model meets a set of accounts. These borrowers need a broker, so the appointment converts when the advice is good.
  • Bigger cases. Business owners and established contractors often borrow more, which means higher procuration and broker fees per completion.
  • Strong protection attach. Self-employed clients have no sick pay and no death-in-service. The income protection and life conversation lands harder here than almost anywhere else.

If your panel and your fact-find are built for complex income, these are the appointments to load up on. The employment flag on the card means you never spend a credit guessing.

Pricing and no-show policy

£110
Per self-employed appointment you claim. No subscription, no contract, no minimum volume. If the applicant no-shows, your credit refunds automatically. You only pay for calls that happen.
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New brokers don't pay to look. Create an account and the self-employed appointments landing that week appear in your portal, employment flagged on every card. Once you've got a feel for the volume and the income profiles, buy a five-credit pack and start claiming. You top up again when you want, not on a schedule we set.

What makes a self-employed lead distinct is the employment flag and income picture on the card. Underneath that, the same filtering runs as on every other lead type we sell: our own compliant ad spend, a 13-question qualifier that gates the funding amount, and email and phone validation before release. The full mechanics live on the lead quality page, and credit arithmetic on pricing. Self-employed applicants show up across remortgage and buy-to-let alike, and the same booking flow applies.

FAQ

Do you capture how long they've been trading or whether accounts are ready?
We flag employment status and capture income on every card, so you know it's a self-employed case before you claim. Years trading, accounts, SA302s, the structure of the business. That's the fact find, and it's the first thing you cover on the call. We don't claim to underwrite a self-employed file from a quiz. We get you a booked appointment with the right kind of applicant.
Sole trader, limited company director or contractor: do you tell me which?
The card flags self-employed and shows income. The exact structure (sole trader, partnership, ltd company director, day-rate contractor) is confirmed on the call, because that's the conversation a self-employed client is paying a broker to have. If your sweet spot is one structure over another, you'll establish it in the first minute of the appointment.
Why are self-employed appointments worth more than mainstream ones?
Because the applicant can't DIY it. Complex income doesn't fit a high-street affordability calculator, so these borrowers genuinely need a broker, and the cases tend to carry higher loan sizes and stronger protection attach. A booked self-employed appointment that shows up is one of the better uses of a credit on the platform.
What happens if the applicant no-shows?
Your credit refunds automatically. You only ever pay for self-employed appointments that actually happen. £110 per show, no subscription, no contract, no minimum volume.