The top 10 mortgage brokers in Australia in 2026

The first woman to top The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking, with $496.5 million across 280 loans in FY25, and third on MPA's Top 100. She was named Australian Broker of the Year and Regional Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards, then won the MFAA's national residential broker award in 2026.

She does it from Newcastle, with an average loan of about $1.77 million, and her five-writer brokerage settled $896 million in 2025. Seven years in, longevity is the only score keeping her from a perfect total, and that one fixes itself.

One of the longest records at the top of Australian broking. Davis was overall Broker of the Year at the 2014 Australian Broking Awards, Australian Broker of the Year at the 2016 Australian Mortgage Awards, topped MPA's Top 100 in 2016 and 2020, and won the MFAA's national residential award in 2023 and the productivity category at the 2024 Australian Mortgage Awards.

He's still writing near the top: sixth in The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking for FY25 with $315.2 million across 598 loans, and tenth on MPA's Top 100. He co-founded ALIC in 2009, which is on the independent brokerage leaders list.

The biggest verified individual number in Australian broking. Michaels topped MPA's Top 100 Brokers for the second year running with $558 million settled in FY25, up from $381 million the year before, and was third in 2023. He doesn't appear in The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking, most likely because he didn't enter it, which is why this list uses each broker's best ranking rather than an average.

He joined Catalyst as its first employee in 2012, in a credit role, and now runs its residential and SME lending for high-net-worth and expat clients. His line to MPA: "Discipline beats motivation every day of the week."

Named Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Broking Awards, and Residential Broker of the Year in both 2024 and 2025. Hawley was fourth in The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking for FY25 with $356.3 million across 398 loans, eighth on MPA's Top 100, and fifth on MPA's list the year before.

He writes inside a brokerage he co-founded with his brother Ben, which also tops the independent brokerage leaders list for awards. Consistency is the story: inside the top ten on both rankings, and winning the industry's main individual award while doing it.

Bates topped the first Elite Broker ranking in 2024 and was overall Broker of the Year at the 2023 Australian Broking Awards. In FY25 he was third in The Adviser's ranking with $392.9 million across 392 loans and sixth on MPA's Top 100, after third and sixth on MPA's list in the two years before.

His model is strategy-led advice for higher-income families, often referred by financial planners. The brokerage has changed names more than once, from Blusk to Alcove, and the volume has followed him the whole way.

Named Residential Broker of the Year at the 2026 Australian Broking Awards, almost two decades into running the same Mortgage Choice franchise in the growth corridor between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. She wrote 608 loans worth $307.0 million in FY25, eighth in The Adviser's ranking and 11th on MPA's Top 100, after eighth on MPA's list the year before.

The Adviser has named her the highest-ranked female residential broker in its ranking in both 2024 and 2025, and she was Mortgage Broker of the Year at the 2024 Women in Finance Awards. It's owner-occupier and first home buyer volume, which makes the loan count more impressive than the dollar figure.

One thousand and one loans in a single financial year. Xia was second in The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking for FY25 with $490.2 million, and nobody in the top 100 wrote more loans. He climbed MPA's Top 100 from 74th in 2023 to 24th in 2024 and fourth in 2025.

He works with property investors building large portfolios, where borrowing capacity and structure are the job. He hasn't yet won a national award, which is the only thing holding the total down, and on that trajectory it probably won't stay that way.

A former broker BDM at a major bank who crossed to the other side of the channel and now writes property investment, trust, SMSF and complex-income lending. Raymond won Residential Broker of the Year at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards, and wrote 633 loans worth $310.7 million in FY25.

He's moved up MPA's Top 100 three years running, from 24th to 13th to ninth. Unconditional Finance also appears in MPA's Top Brokerages 2026.

The MFAA's national residential broker in 2025, and the top Western Australian broker on this list. Bal wrote 405 loans worth $226.4 million in FY25 for 14th in The Adviser's ranking, and has been on MPA's Top 100 three years running.

His work is first home buyers, investors, refinancers and small-business borrowers, which is the bread and butter of Australian broking done at a volume most brokerages never reach.

Twenty-four years in, and still on MPA's Top 100 every year: 16th in 2023, seventh in 2024 and 16th again in 2025. Wong built One Solutions around a model that puts lending, financial planning, accounting and property advice under one roof.

There's no big national award on the record, so recognition is low. Longevity at this volume is rare enough that it earns the last place on its own.