The top 10 commercial and asset finance broking leaders in Australia in 2026

The brokerage that topped every other brokerage in MPA's 2026 ranking, residential included. Simplicity settled $2.3 billion in FY25 for seventh place in The Adviser's Top 25, won Commercial Mortgage Brokerage of the Year at The Adviser's 2025 Commercial Finance Awards, and has six brokers on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026, with Gortan himself second. His colleague Joshua Diab topped The Adviser's Elite Broker commercial ranking for FY25 at $513.9 million.

Gortan's line to MPA is that commercial brokers are capital advisers rather than intermediaries, and the firm is built that way. One thing has changed: REA Group, which owns Mortgage Choice, bought 70% of Simplicity in February 2026, with the rest to follow by 2029. It's no longer independent, but it's still the benchmark.

A hospitality, accommodation and childcare finance specialist, which means pubs, clubs, motels and management rights, and the most-awarded commercial broker in the LMG network. Green won Commercial Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards and LMG's commercial broker award in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and he sits ninth on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026.

Green Finance Group runs eight locations from Fortitude Valley to Cairns and Melbourne, settled $1.2 billion in FY25 and came equal fifth in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026. Worth noting: Green says residential and investment lending has now passed half of what the firm settles, so the mix is shifting.

Stamford settled $2.5 billion in FY25, more than any other commercial brokerage in The Adviser's Top 25, and has five brokers on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026, including Bill Moskovich at number one for the second year running. It calls itself Australia's leading independent commercial property finance broker, and the firm reports it arranged more than $5 billion in FY26.

O'Connor isn't a founder. He's a former KPMG accountant who came in as chief operating officer and took over from the founders, Domenic Lo Surdo, Michael Hynes and David Scardoni, in 2023. Scale and results are as strong as anyone's here, and tenure is the only thing holding the total back.

Thirty-seven years in equipment finance. O'Donoghue started Finlease in 1989 as a three-person broker for Sydney manufacturers, and it now arranges more than $1 billion a year across more than 8,000 loans, with a team of about 100 in 18 offices, by the firm's own figures.

The Commercial and Asset Finance Brokers Association named it Broker Firm of the Year in 2025. Asset finance rarely makes the headline rankings, which are built around property loans, so the scale score leans on what the firm reports about itself.

A former financial planner who has led Rethink since it started in 2017. Pham personally wrote 493 commercial loans in FY25, the most of anyone in The Adviser's Elite Broker commercial ranking, while also ranking fifth on its residential list, and he was named Commercial Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Broking Awards.

Rethink settled more than $1 billion in 2025 and came eighth in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026 with an 88% conversion rate. It writes a lot of residential as well, so it could sit on the independents list just as easily.

A former head of corporate and property lending at BOQ in New South Wales who set up a hospitality and property debt advisory desk inside Quantaco, a hospitality data and accounting business. Kennedy won Commercial Mortgage Broker of the Year at The Adviser's 2025 Commercial Finance Awards and ranks fifth on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026.

It's an unusual structure: a broking arm inside a software and accounting firm, where a venue's trading figures already sit in the same business when a loan application starts.

The smallest business on this list and the one that beat the whole industry this year. Scotter runs Commercial Point Finance on his own with an outsourced team, and the 2026 Australian Broking Awards named him overall Broker of the Year as well as Asset Finance Broker of the Year. He'd won the asset finance category before, in 2019.

He had no finance background before starting in 2011. Scale is a two and results a ten, which tells you most of what you need to know about why rankings built only on volume miss people.

Two former senior commercial bankers whose firm name fuses their initials with the capital stack. STAC is a South East Queensland development finance specialist, won Development Finance Brokerage of the Year at The Adviser's 2025 Commercial Finance Awards, and both founders made MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026, each writing more than $100 million in 2025.

A team of about 13, which is the point. Development finance rewards people who've sat on the lender's side of a credit committee, and both of them have.

Nearly 30 years in health finance. Allfin describes itself as Australia's leading pharmacy finance broker, and it also finances dental, veterinary, medical and childcare businesses, and Churchill ranked eighth on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers in both 2025 and 2026.

Specialists like this rarely win the headline awards, because their deals are smaller and their clients are loyal rather than loud. That's what the results score reflects, not the quality of the work.

A former bank corporate and property lending leader who co-founded PD Capital Management in 2022 and was ranked third on MPA's Top Commercial Brokers 2026, up from seventh the year before. It's a boutique debt and capital advisory firm with a team of about five.

Short tenure keeps the total down. The volume, from a firm this young and this small, is why it's here at all.