Simon Gates

Opening The Gates To More Listings

Opening The Gates To More Listings with Simon Gates is a podcast designed to help estate agents find more listings and increase the profitability of their business. There will be a variety of different guests across the industry being interviewed to share their knowledge on how to achieve this.

Author

Simon Gates

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Education

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Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 87: Toby Martin 16.11.2023

Today's guest had a brief stint as an English teacher, before joining the industry in 2011 as an administrator with little first-hand experience of the sector, except as a renter himself. His own role grew, as did the company, and he was appointed a Director in 2016. In 2018 he completed the Level 3 Award in Residential Letting & Property Management and became a member of ARLA. He also joi...

Episode 86: James Clelland 09.11.2023

Today's guest has 10 years of industry experience and has sold in excess of £850m worth of property and there is plenty more to come! He operates in Staffordshire & the surrounding areas. The recording of this episode came about from the power of the invisible audience after a conversation over Instagram. There is lots of value to be had from this conversation and I hope you enjoy listenin...

Episode 85: Jonathan Webb 02.11.2023

Today's guest is a sales associate at JLL in Greenwich and has been an estate agent for 10 years now. He is a prime example of someone who is a big learner and puts things into action. You will get an understanding of how he does this from our conversation.

Episode 84: Levi Fowler & Julien Powell 26.10.2023

Today's guests are the founders of Fowler & Powell and The Home Movement Property Experts. Fowler & Powell launched in March 2019 and then The Home Movement followed suit at the start of 2023. Between them, they are on a mission to change the estate agency industry and change lives by helping a select number of clients move home. They also aim to continue to be adaptive and disruptive...

Episode 83: Ross McKenzie 19.10.2023

Today's guest is the founder of Isla-Alexander who has been working in the industry since 2013 and is building the next generation of estate agency built on the foundations of media and marketing He has previously worked as a director for some of the UK’s largest Estate Agency firms such as Purplebricks, Countrywide, and, Keller Williams. There is so much gold in this conversation and plenty t...

Episode 82: Lauren Power 12.10.2023

Today's guest has worked in estate agency for over a dozen years for independent agents, national corporates and online agencies. She has helped over 1000 Leeds home movers throughout her career to date. In the past two and a half years, she worked alongside self-employed estate agents, training and coaching them. She now partners with great estate agents and supports them in building their ow...

Episode 81: Chris Buckler 05.10.2023

Today's guest is back for round 2 having been guest number 3 over a year ago. Since then, a lot has changed with him having, founded a new self-employed model called The Estate Agency. He is also a coach, mentor and self-confessed estate agency geek. Please follow the link below to take a quiz and find out if self-employment is the perfect fit for your estate agency career. https://theestate.a...

Episode 80: Robert Reed 05.10.2023

Today's guest is a high-profile estate agent who worked his first day in Tarporley in 2004 He joined forces with Gascoigne Halman and launched their new Tarporley office in March 2020. He believes that an estate agent's role is to understand a client's needs, set an appropriate strategy and remain actively involved from start to finish until the goal is achieved. He has developed a rep...

Episode 79: Elle Wood 21.09.2023

Today's guest helps estate agents and letting agents attract more sellers and landlords with digital marketing. She helps them dominate social media effortlessly & affordably and is known for giving regular social media tips. Before this, she was awarded best estate agent in the UK during her several years as an estate agent before turning to helping them instead. Some great lessons to be...

Episode 78: Richard Bray 14.09.2023

Today's guest has been an estate agent since 2017, following a long career in banking and the financial sector. Prior to getting into estate agency, he had plenty of experience buying and selling houses. A lesson he applies from his banking days is that it's all about establishing rapport and good relationships. He has taken the Beds/Bucks property market by storm in recent years and you w...

Episode 77: Gemma Noonan 07.09.2023

Today's guest is the Managing Director of The Giggs Group and has over 20 years of experience in the coaching and HR space. She is an expert in leadership, team building, training & development, and, performance management. Specialising in driving change and culture and helping individuals and teams to understand and apply their values (personal and organisational) in everything they do. S...

Episode 76: Anton Babkov 31.08.2023

Today's guest is the CEO at Rexlabs. Rexlabs is home to leading proptech solutions like Rex Software, Siteloft and Spoke. They believe that 'home' is an inherently human experience and build tech products to empower agents to deliver great customer experiences to owners, landlords, buyers and sellers. They currently service more than 10,000 users across 1,800 agencies, selling billions...

Episode 75: Daniel McGowran 24.08.2023

Today's guest is the referred agent and owner of Daniel James Residential in Oswestry. He has 20 years of experience as an estate agent and started his own business in late 2020. Not only that, but he is also a mentor at Agents Together as well. Challenging the status quo, this is one not to be missed!

Episode 74: Vicky Bibiris 17.08.2023

Today’s guest started with Location Location as a junior negotiator in 2006 and within a short period of time became the top-performing sales consultant in the company taking on the role of Branch Manager in 2009. She became Sales Director and equity partner in 2012 and has been an integral part of establishing Location Location’s reputation as one of North London’s leading estate agents. Now she...

Episode 73: Matt Giggs 10.08.2023

Today's guest is a BS-Free REAL Estate Agent Coach and he teaches Estate Agents to scale without the sleaze. He started his career at one of the biggest estate agencies in the world and lead his first region of 9 offices from 92nd to number 1 in the company in less than three years. Since then, he has built 8 different Estate Agency brands, handled over 200 billion pounds worth of successful p...

Episode 72: Alice Bullard 03.08.2023

Today's guest has been in the industry for over a decade now and is the Managing Director of Nested. She sits in a great position to share advice on how to make it in this market by working with self-employed agents to grow their businesses. There is lots of valuable content in this episode to go away and execute. I really enjoyed recording this episode and hope you enjoy listening to it too.

Episode 71: James Skudder 27.07.2023

Today's guest has worked in the industry for 20 years and launched his own estate agency, Country Living Group in July 2020. He has made a name for himself in Pembrokeshire for selling higher-end properties and doing some excellent video work, whilst leveraging social media to increase his audience for now and the future. This is not one to be missed, from a guy who has been showing just how t...

Episode 70: One Year Anniversary Special 23.07.2023

I am on the other side of the microphone in this episode, interviewed by James Kendall. I have been asked many times what my answers would be to some of the questions that I ask my guests and it only felt right to celebrate the one-year anniversary by giving some of my responses. I hope you enjoy the episode and thank you for coming along on this journey with me so far, here is to the next year! P...

Episode 69: Alex Moisii 20.07.2023

Today's guest is the Managing Director of Crests and as seen on CH4, The Times, The Sun, Daily Mail, and Forbes. He talks us through how he has quickly gone from entering the industry 4 years ago to now running his own estate agency. Now approaching 24,000 followers on Instagram, he talks us through how his personal brand has been built and what he has done to create a new way of making it in...

Episode 68: Clint Nykamp 13.07.2023

Today's guest is a multiple business owner, which includes Sterling Homes & GoogleClint. He shares lots of great advice in this episode, from his days in the army, 15+ years of estate agency and the newer world of helping estate agents get business through Google ads. Corporate estate agency, franchise, partner agent, all the way through to running his own estate agents is discussed and he...

Episode 67: Jason Cannon 06.07.2023

Today's guest is an executive, coach, mentor, trainer, and, consultant with over four decades of property and business experience. He started his career before I was even born (sorry, Jason) and shares lots of his vast experience in this episode. From independent, to corporate, to the self-employed world, he has seen it all. There is plenty to implement and execute from this podcast and you be...

Episode 66: Adam Horton 29.06.2023

Today's guest is the CEO at Hortons and is looking to create partnerships with the best estate agents. He has spent over a decade in the industry and gives some fantastic insights into what it takes to become a successful estate agent and business owner. From door-knocking to being present in the community, there is a lot to be taken from this episode in helping you improve as an estate agent...

Episode 65: Ben Gee 22.06.2023

Today's guest is the Founder of Hat and Home & Co-Founder of Milliner Financial Services. He brings over 20 years of experience to this episode from working as a negotiator in the corporate world of London to setting up his own estate agents at the start of 2021. Hat & Home has grown to 5 offices since the start of 2021 and is very well known for its clever marketing. Tune in if you wa...

Episode 64: Megan Eighteen 15.06.2023

Today's guest is Operations Director for Location Location, Regional Executive for Propertymark, and a mentor at Agents Together. She is a member of NAEA & ARLA and subsequently, a fellow of ARLA, being a Finalist for a Propertymark Award 2019, Thames Valley Property Awards Young Person of the Year 2021 and Propertymark Executive of the Year 2022. Not only is she doing all of the above but...

Episode 63: Danny Lambert 08.06.2023

Today's guest is a senior sales consultant at Rex Software and a former colleague of mine at Homesearch. He talks about getting the best out of a CRM, social media, websites, and much more. Using his experience of speaking to agents daily about the above, he is very well-positioned to talk about what is working and not working in this ever-changing industry. Stay tuned for his prediction of th...

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