Chris Huxter Named
Commercial Buyers Agent of the Year 2026

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Chris Huxter won Buyers Agent of the Year, Commercial, at the inaugural 2026 Australian Buyers Agent Awards.
• The award recognises an individual, not the agency.
• He was also a finalist for Due Diligence Specialist of the Year, Commercial.
• InvestorKit was separately a finalist for Buyers Agency of the Year, Commercial.

Chris Huxter leads commercial investments at InvestorKit. At the 2026 Australian Buyers Agent Awards, run by Momentum Media, he was named Buyers Agent of the Year for Commercial.

This is a national individual category. It assessed his personal performance and process against commercial buyer's agents across Australia, rather than assessing InvestorKit as a business. The agency-level commercial recognition in the same program was a finalist placement.

• Buyers Agent of the Year, Commercial: Winner, Chris Huxter
• Due Diligence Specialist of the Year, Commercial: Finalist, Chris Huxter
• Buyers Agency of the Year, Commercial: Finalist, InvestorKit
• Innovator of the Year, Buyers Agency (Commercial): Finalist, InvestorKit

The standard concern for an investor engaging a residential-first agency for commercial work is that the commercial capability is thin, added recently, or handled by generalists.

An agency award does not answer that. It describes the brand. An individual national title describes the person the client will actually work with, which is the thing they are worried about.

Commercial acquisition is also more individually dependent than residential. Lease security, tenant profile, outgoings and long-term demand drivers are judgement-heavy assessments, and the quality of the person doing the work drives the outcome more directly than in a residential purchase.

InvestorKit does not treat commercial and residential as separate investment channels to be executed in isolation. Both divisions run the same research-led framework, with the asset class selected to suit the client's long-term objectives rather than the other way round.

Every opportunity is assessed through a structured framework covering yield, tenant profile, lease security and long-term demand drivers. That sits on top of integrated research across both commercial and residential markets, which is what allows portfolio construction to be tailored. For some investors that means commercial assets, for others residential, for many a combination of both.

The commercial division draws on the same infrastructure as the rest of the business: a dedicated research and technology division, and the EDGE platform, which won Technology Platform of the Year in the same 2026 program.

For a commercial investor comparing agencies, the useful question is not whether the brand has awards. It is whether the person managing the acquisition has been assessed by anyone outside the business.

The pairing of an individual national win with an agency-level finalist placement covers both halves of that question. One establishes the specialist. The other establishes the operation behind them.

Since 2018, InvestorKit has supported more than 2,600 clients across over 3,000 property purchases nationwide, generating over $500 million in equity for clients.

This is general information and not personal advice. Commercial property carries different risk characteristics to residential. Individual results depend on borrowing capacity, timing, market conditions and personal circumstances. Past performance does not guarantee future results.