Industry snapshot · July 2026
What Australian buyer's agents told us about winning new clients.
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Independent research with Australian buyer's agents on where the hours go, what makes a lead worth pursuing, and why being first and best-prepared wins the client.
What the research found
Four things agents told us, again and again.
The full picture is in the report. Here is the short version.
Onboarding eats hours
And a lot of it is the same work, repeated for every single client.
Agents want leads qualified first
They want to know a buyer is worth it before they sink those hours into onboarding them.
Buyers want information fast
So they arrive at the first call already informed, not carrying questions you have answered a hundred times.
The faster you reply, the more you win
Speed of first response is one of the strongest predictors of who wins the client.
About this research
The findings come from surveys and interviews with Australian buyer's agents run through June and July 2026, alongside published third-party research on lead response times. It is an early-stage sample, so the numbers are directional rather than definitive. We would rather tell you that than dress it up as something it is not.
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What we did about it
This is the problem we are building NestKey to solve.
NestKey qualifies and informs every enquiry the moment it lands, so you know who is worth your time and your buyers arrive at the first call already up to speed. If that sounds like your day, come and see it.