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.
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Episodes
Episode 237: Rachel Ollington 23.10.2025 1:00:55
Today's guest is Director at Rachel Ollington Consultant supported by The Estate Agent Consultancy. Rachel has seen it all, from the hybrid space, being a self-employed agent and exiting her own business. She now combines all of her experience to help letting agents grow their business. We discuss the power of social media, video, landlord lead generation and loads more invaluable content. You don...
Episode 236: Rory Black 20.10.2025 49:22
Today's guest is Director at PriceHubble UK (Dataloft). He is part of the team at Dataloft that transform the marketing for property professionals, helping them win new business through the use of property insights and data. We discuss the importance of data, insights, marketing, and what the very best estate agents are doing with Dataloft to grow their estate agency business. Make sure to tun...
Episode 235: Lottie Foden 16.10.2025 58:36
Tooday's guest is the owner of YourKeys and is a lettings expert in the Staffordshire and Cheshire area. She specialises in property lettings & management, single lets and HMO’s. Having worked in corporate and independent businesses, she launched her own business and has been going from strength to strength ever since. In our conversation, we discuss personal brand, social media, video, networ...
Episode 234: Jorge Gayle 13.10.2025 50:48
Today's guest is a Negotiations Instructor and Coach at the Black Swan Group and author of "From Jet Who to JetBlue". He was part of the founding team at JetBlue and after an active and thrilling twenty-year career with this successful airline, his book, From JetWho to JetBlue, takes you behind the scenes of this successful organisation from its early days and reveals how to develop a unique cultu...
Episode 233: Lucy Joerin 09.10.2025 1:01:30
Today's guest is on a mission to help estate agents break into the luxury market, earn more, and love what they do and is the Founder of Stowhill Estates & The Elite Agent Collective. She has helped estate agents step into the luxury property market with confidence — and build 6-figure (and beyond) businesses doing work they love. As the founder of Stowhill Estates, she know first-hand what it...
Episode 232: Matt Baldock 06.10.2025 58:28
Today's returning guest is Director and co-owner of Charles David Casson, who are an estate agents in Chelmsford, Essex and he is also a consultant and coach for estate agency owners. He also runs the HMO network, the estate agency dinner, and is a member of The FIA. In this episode we discuss proptech, social media, networking, lettings and loads more from one of the good guys in estate agenc...
Episode 231: Mia Evans 02.10.2025 1:01:48
Today's guest is a Director at The Agency UK. She has worked within corporate and independent estate agency and covered, Cheshire, North Wales, Sefton and West Lancashire. Priding herself on taking the stress and strain out of moving, she is there from the first conversation, to negotiating offers, sales progression all the way down to handing out keys. She started as a trainee Negotiator seve...
Episode 230: Stuart Greenwood 29.09.2025 1:09:53
Today's guest is a Business Development Manager for Davies Property Partners. He has over a decade of experience in the estate agency industry from working across both independents and corporates, plus he has also worked in the proptech space for a few years as well before mocing back into estate agency. This makes him well positioned to give insights on what the very best estate agents do dif...
Episode 229: Gary Simpson 25.09.2025 52:52
Today's guest is the Founder of Bayzos Estate Agents and Co-Founder of See It Here First. We discuss systems, processes, fees, helpful resources, video, social media, community groups and loads more valuable content in this episode. We close the conversation by talking about the success of the Bayzos Exclusive Buyer Group on Facebook that is now closing in on 4,000 members since launching in June...
Episode 228: Jacob Littorin MNAEA 22.09.2025 52:21
Today's guest is an aspiring personal estate agent in Islington, who is originally from Sweden and is a member of the National Association of Estate Agents, MNAEA, Propertymark. Since 2019, he has completed numerous courses and awards in residential sales, to be fully qualified to sell property and holds both the Level 2 and the Level 3 Awards in the Sale of Residential Property, which are hig...
Episode 227: Mark Breffit 18.09.2025 55:12
Today's guest is the Founder of KnokKnok and has 14+ years working within London’s property market, selling in excess of £1b+ worth of property in the capital and the most expensive home in London in 2024 at £70,000,000. He's worked with some of the biggest names in the business, like Dexters, Hamptons and Knight Frank, managing sales teams and breaking records along the way. He was also lucky eno...
Episode 226: Mark Bevan 15.09.2025 57:23
Today's guest is the Managing Director at Loop Software. He's been in and around the property industry for 15 years in multiple roles from training through to solution sales and delivering presentations to agents from 1 offices to 160 offices in size - managing the deal through to completion. His roles have seen him work in the CRM and portal spaces, which gives him a great position to discuss wha...
Episode 225: Mal Mccallion 11.09.2025 53:06
Today's guest is the Co-Founder and CEO of ModelProp, which is helping estate agents escape Rightmove reliance with AI. He's spent 30+ years helping businesses grow, from early-stage startups like Zoopla and Primelocation.com to global scale-ups like REA Group and GetAgent. In our conversation we discuss the portal space and what that is going to look like in the next few years, where AI is going,...
Episode 224: Mark Wells 08.09.2025 56:39
Today's guest Founder and CEO at Invisible Homes, the property market's best kept secret and London’s only online, off-market property platform. His career has seen him work at Hamptons, Savills, and as a search agent before launching Invisible Homes in 2017. He set up Invisible Homes to bring the perks of buying and selling off-market to the world, harnessing the power of AI. A bit like a dating...
Episode 223: Ian Storey 04.09.2025 57:37
Today's guest is the proud owner of Storeys of Cheshire and is also an estate agent mentor and trainer at The Complete Agent. In this conversation with arguably one of the very best estate agents in the country who charges some of the highest average fees in the industry, we discuss marketing, direct mail, team culture, social media, video, mindset, charging higher fees and loads more incredibly v...
Episode 222: Laura Harvey 01.09.2025 47:55
Today's guest is the Managing Director of Property Fastrack, which was founded in 2024 to help estate agents and individuals streamline property transactions through expert outsourced sales progression and client support. In this episode we discuss how they aim to reduce fall-throughs, speed up completions, and make the moving process smoother from start to finish. If you're looking to increase yo...
Episode 221: Ashley Would 28.08.2025 53:39
Today's guest is the Director of Ashley Would & Partners. He has a decade of experience working as an estate agent and launched his own business powered by eXp in January 2021, going on to to cap multiple times, reach ICON status and achieve over 300 5* Google reviews. In this episode we discuss the importance of preparation, reviews, social media, fees, door knocking, targeting unsold propert...
Episode 220: Jonathan Stein 25.08.2025 1:02:59
Today' guest is the CEO of Vaboo and is helping the property sector build trust with their customers. Improving the image of the estate agency sector by enhancing the relationship between agents and their customers. The Vaboo customer rewards and engagement platform adds value to an estate agents service and can help uncover new revenue streams. Customers are given access to exclusive money-saving...
Episode 219: Nick Brown 21.08.2025 1:01:21
Today's guest is an estate agency director at The Agency UK, having launched his business with TAUK in May 2021, following roles at Countrywide and Purple Bricks. In this fantastic conversation we discuss self-employed estate agency, video, fees, finding and attracting the right clients, and loads more in this incredibly insightful episode. You definitely don't want to miss this one as I've been b...
Episode 218: Chris Ellis 18.08.2025 51:42
Today's guest is the owner of Harrisons Homes in Sittingbourne and has been an estate agent since 2004. In our conversation we cover a lot of ground with topics such as mental health, awards, fees, charity, community, video, coaching, reservation agreements, and being part of a network. You do not want to miss this episode with someone who has gone from business burnout to business growth and is n...
Episode 217: Sam Smith 14.08.2025 52:22
Today's guest is the Co-Founder & CEO of PropServ. Having spent a decade working in the industry, from agent to supplier, he took the step to launch PropServ in late 2023. PropServ is the property market’s most complete supplier management system , combining AI tenant reporting for managed properties with tools to let you offer the same service to your clients. In this episode we discuss the p...
Episode 216: Sam Mason 11.08.2025 52:49
Today's guest is the Founder of The Mortgage & Protection Hub and is on a mission to help brokers escape the traditional 9-5 & build real freedom and is also helping buyers get on the ladder. He's a mortgage broker who has worked in the corporate world and we touch on this following the recent Panorama Undercover Estate Agent show and the launching of his own business in February 2023, plu...
Episode 215: Andy Henderson 07.08.2025 56:42
Today's guest works in luxury real estate sales and is also a real estate coach. With over £200 million in luxury property sales, he started his real estate career in February 2020 with RE/MAX, where he ranked in the top 0.12% of agents across Europe - 39th out of 32,000. He's helped hundreds of families find their ideal home, specialising in high-end residential properties and communities designe...
Episode 214: Ben Madden 04.08.2025 1:06:22
Today's returning guest is the Founder of Digital Sparks, Principal Director of Fine & Country, and a mentor at Agents Together. In this packed conversation we discuss his podcast what's happened since his previous appearance almost three years ago, his podcast 'Pass The Syrup' and the Facebook group he runs called The Boys Club (Mens Mental Health Awareness). We also discuss his dream team of...
Episode 213: Opening The Gates To More Listings & The Complete Agent Collaboration 01.08.2025 53:13
Today's guests are the three musketeers of The Complete Agent and run very successful estate agency businesses James Kendall, Storeys Of Cheshire, WeLocate, and Burton James, selling a combined £2 Biillion worth of property during their careers. They've gone from low fees and high volume to selling some of the most luxurious properties across their regions and charging a premium fee in doing so an...
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