InvestorKit Wins Three Awards:
2026 Australian Buyers Agent Awards

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• InvestorKit won three categories at the first Australian Buyers Agent Awards, held in 2026.
• The firm was recognised in 13 of the 26 categories, the most of any buyer's agency in Australia.
• The EDGE platform won Technology Platform of the Year for Property Acquisitions.
• Chris Huxter won Buyers Agent of the Year for Commercial, an individual national title.

InvestorKit took three wins at the inaugural Australian Buyers Agent Awards, a national program launched by Real Estate Business and Smart Property Investment under Momentum Media. The ceremony was held at Doltone House, Hyde Park in Sydney.

• Marketing Campaign of the Year: Winner, InvestorKit
• Technology Platform/Tool of the Year, Property Acquisitions: Winner, InvestorKit, for the EDGE platform
• Buyers Agent of the Year, Commercial: Winner, Chris Huxter

The program ran across 26 categories, split between 16 individual and 10 group awards. InvestorKit and its team were recognised in 13 of them, the highest number of nominations for any buyer's agency in Australia.

Beyond the three wins, InvestorKit held 10 finalist placements spanning agency performance, individual specialisation, innovation and community contribution. They included:

• Buyers Agency of the Year, Residential Investment: InvestorKit
• Buyers Agency of the Year, Commercial: InvestorKit
• Innovator of the Year, Buyers Agency (Residential): InvestorKit
• Innovator of the Year, Buyers Agency (Commercial): InvestorKit
• Social Impact and Community Contribution Award: InvestorKit
• Due Diligence Specialist of the Year, Commercial: Chris Huxter
• Rising Star of the Year: Mehul Patel
• Influencer of the Year: Arjun Paliwal
• Director/Executive of the Year: Arjun Paliwal

The spread matters more than the count. Recognition across residential and commercial, agency and individual, technology and community means the judging panel found something to assess in nearly every dimension the program measures.

EDGE, short for Evaluation, Data and Growth Engine, is InvestorKit's in-house client portal and research system. It brings market research, portfolio strategy, acquisition tooling and post-purchase performance tracking into one place, running the due diligence models built on data from PropTrack, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Domain and Cordell.

The platform is the mechanism behind one of InvestorKit's more unusual operating numbers. The firm filters out roughly 92 per cent of the opportunities it assesses. Rejecting more than nine in ten candidate markets and properties only works if the analysis behind the rejection is fast, consistent and available to every team member.

Arjun Paliwal, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Research at InvestorKit, framed the platform in terms of decisions rather than features: “EDGE is not about fancy charts or features. It is about outcomes.”

Ankit Paliwal, Chief Technology Innovation Officer, described where the project started: “Two and a half years ago, the company was running on spreadsheets with fewer than 20 staff. The brief from Arjun was straightforward: give the team superpowers.”

Chris Huxter, who leads InvestorKit's commercial division, was named Buyers Agent of the Year for Commercial. He was also a finalist for Due Diligence Specialist of the Year, Commercial, in the same program.

This is an individual national title, not an agency award, and that distinction works in a client's favour. Commercial acquisition is judgement-heavy. Lease security, tenant profile, outgoings and long-term demand drivers all require assessment that does not appear in a residential purchase, and the quality of the person doing that work drives the outcome directly.

InvestorKit does not treat commercial and residential as separate channels. 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.

Since 2018, InvestorKit has supported more than 2,600 clients across over 3,000 property purchases nationwide, facilitating more than $2 billion in real estate transactions and generating over $500 million in equity for clients. The firm maintains a Net Promoter Score above 90 and holds 650+ five-star Google reviews.

This is general information and not personal advice. Individual results depend on borrowing capacity, timing, market conditions and personal circumstances. Past performance does not guarantee future results.