The top 10 independent brokerage leaders in Australia in 2026

The benchmark for independent broking in Australia. Shore Financial came fourth in The Adviser's Top 25 Brokerages 2026, behind only Aussie, Mortgage Choice and Loan Market, after its 31 brokers settled $2.15 billion in FY25. That's roughly $69 million per broker against networks with well over a thousand each, and Shore says this was its eleventh straight year in the ranking. MPA's own 2026 ranking has it seventh.

Before Shore, Chambers built the Oxygen Home Loans offering across the McGrath Estate Agents network, so he came in knowing how referral volume actually flows. Three of his brokers made MPA's Top 100 in 2025, and Shore was a finalist for Major Independent Brokerage of the Year at the 2026 Australian Broking Awards.

The most decorated independent in the country right now. Azura won the MFAA's national Finance Broker Business Award in both 2025 and 2026, took Brokerage of the Year for firms over 20 staff at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards, and Tom Hawley was named Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Broking Awards. Four Azura brokers made MPA's Top 100 in 2025, Tom at eighth and Ben at 21st, which ties it with Mortgage Pros and Infinity Group for the most of any firm.

It's a family business that keeps growing sideways as well as up. In August 2026 the brothers launched Azura Private, a private banking arm built through a merger with Stella Private. Two co-founders share the leadership, so they share the spot.

Nineteen years running the same business, and the 2026 Australian Broking Awards named it Major Independent Brokerage of the Year. Reilly co-founded Inovayt in 2007, and it has turned acquirer: The Adviser's Top 25 coverage noted it strengthened its Queensland footprint by buying Brisbane's Fast Break Finance.

On raw volume it sits lower than the names above it, at 23rd in the Top 25 with $813 million in FY25. Tenure and the award are what put it third. Building a brokerage that wins the industry's main independent award after two decades is harder than having one big year.

ALIC was founded in 2009 by brokers Mark Davis and Kevin Agent, both still on MPA's Top 100, and Brander has run it since 2021. Under him it ranked third in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026 and 11th in The Adviser's Top 25, won Independent Office of the Year at the 2025 Australian Broking Awards and Customer Service Office of the Year in 2026, and took the diversification brokerage award at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards.

He has also spun the firm's own capability out into businesses: offshore support provider Outsourced Experts and broking software Lolli. Worth knowing: The Adviser reported in early 2026 that ALIC is designing a franchise model. It's independent today, and if that changes, so will its place on this list.

A former IT professional who started as a sole broker in 2015 and built his own origination, referral and CRM system from scratch. XIN Mortgage settled $1.07 billion in 2025, its first billion-dollar year, on a $2.4 billion loan book with a team of 36, according to MPA.

It ranked equal fifth in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026 and 21st in The Adviser's Top 25. In 2026 Xin also stepped up to lead a wider XIN Group, which is usually what happens when a brokerage outgrows its founder's desk.

Thirty-one years running his own brokerage and still writing at the top of the market. Tiffen founded Tiffen & Co in Canberra in 1995, ranked 22nd on MPA's Top 100 Brokers in 2025, and the firm came equal ninth in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026 with a small team.

Longevity is the point here. Most brokerages don't survive their founder's first decade, let alone three of them, and Canberra is a market where reputation travels fast in both directions.

A former Westpac banker who built one of the five biggest independent brokerages in MPA's ranking from Melbourne. AUSUN came fourth in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026, which it says is its fourth straight year in the top five, and 17th in The Adviser's Top 25 with $1.1 billion settled in FY25.

It now has offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth as well as Melbourne, and serves mainly Asian-Australian clients. Scale is what puts it here. We found no national awards to lift the results score.

UFinancial was founded in 2008 and ranked tenth in The Adviser's Top 25 Brokerages 2026, with $1.1 billion settled in FY25. It runs broking alongside financial planning, accounting and commercial and asset finance, across ten offices from Torquay to Hobart, and it expanded into South Australia by buying Adelaide brokerage Rise High.

Its succession model, which brings smaller independent brokers into the group, is one of the more interesting answers to the question every solo broker eventually asks: who buys my book? We couldn't find when Deledio took the CEO title, which is what the tenure score reflects.

The fastest climb on this list. Mason co-founded Mason Finance Group on the Sunshine Coast in 2021, and four years later it was 14th in The Adviser's Top 25 with $1.0 billion settled in FY25. He still writes at the top end himself: 13th on MPA's Top 100 in 2025 and tenth in The Adviser's Elite Broker residential ranking.

He came to it as a former number one Mortgage Choice broker and Loan Market's first elite-brokerage business coach. The business runs under Loan Market Group's bring-your-own-brand aggregation, so the brand is its own rather than a franchise office.

Australia's second-ranked broker by volume on MPA's Top 100 in 2025, while running a boutique he founded in 2018. Hana was also Connective's Broker of the Year in 2025. House of Finance doesn't publish firm-level volume, so the scale score is conservative.

He told MPA the firm measures success by trust rather than volume, which is easy to say and harder to mean when you're writing at the top of the national rankings.