Speed to Lead: The 5-Minute Rule for Mortgage Leads

Loan officer's phone lighting up with a new mortgage lead notification in a dark kitchen at 9pm
July 18, 2026

Short answer: speed to lead — how fast you make first contact after a mortgage lead comes in — is the single highest-leverage number in your pipeline. The best-known research on web leads found that calling within 5 minutes instead of 30 makes you about 100x more likely to reach the lead and 21x more […]