Sydney Brokers

Choosing and checking a mortgage broker in Sydney · established guidance, local specifics

About

About Sydney Brokers

Sydney Brokers is a local guide to working with a mortgage broker: how to verify who you are dealing with, how brokers are paid, the questions worth asking in the first conversation, and the Sydney-specific things that change the answers.

Who publishes it

Sydney Brokers is produced by the Arrivau team. That is stated here and in the footer of every page rather than left for you to work out, because who wrote something is part of how you weigh it — particularly on a site about choosing who to trust with your finances.

The division is clean. This site is not a broker or lender and does not provide credit assistance itself. It publishes general information and tools about how broking works and how to check the person in front of you. Anything regulated — credit assistance, applications, product recommendations — is done by Arrivau, a licensed mortgage broker.

What it covers

  • How to verify a broker on the free public registers, and what each register actually tells you
  • How brokers are paid: upfront and trail commission, clawback, and fee for service
  • The questions worth asking in a first conversation, and what a good answer sounds like
  • The Sydney-specific conditions — auction, apartment policy, strata, NSW duty — that change the answers

Editorial rules

  • Named sources. Licensing, complaints and duty questions link to ASIC, AFCA or Revenue NSW, which set the rules, rather than to a summary.
  • A review date on every page. You can always see when something was last checked.
  • No broker rankings. This site does not rank or review brokers or firms. It gives you the method to assess one yourself.
  • No advertising or paid placement. There are no listings on the site, so there is nothing to place.

If you get in touch

If you choose to leave contact details here or in the chat, they are passed to Arrivau, a licensed mortgage broker we work with, who may follow up with you, and chat conversations are saved to provide the service. Nothing is passed on unless you give it. See the privacy page for what is collected and why.

Corrections

If a fact here is wrong or has gone out of date, or a link to an official source has moved, write to contact@brokers.sydney. Corrections are made and the page review date is updated.

General information about how mortgage broking works in Australia and what applies in Sydney. Licensing and complaints arrangements are administered by ASIC and AFCA; duty and concessions by Revenue NSW. Each page links to the body that sets the rule. Reviewed 17 August 2026.