Opening The Gates To More Listings

Today's guest is the Founder & CEO of Homebuyer Agency. He founded Homebuyer Agency to solve what he believes is a clear and growing problem: most buyers are unrepresented in the biggest transaction of their lives. Estate agents act for the seller. That’s their job - and the good ones do it well. But buyers? They’re expected to manage the process alone, with no one truly in their corner. Consu...

Today's returning guest for a now unprecedented seventh appearance is the founder of We Are Unchained, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps businesses grow faster by enhancing their market insight, strategy, activity, and talent. Over his 8 years experience in the estate agency industry, he has worked with Countrywide, Fine & Country, Keller Williams, and Knight Frank. He's als...

Today's guest is an internationally renowned go-to speaker, trainer and coach for high-performance real estate agents and agencies. He is the number one preferred trainer for Australia's top 100 agents and top 50 women in real estate. In 2025 he is set to perform in 200 events face to face and virtually in the US, UK, UAE, New Zealand and Australia. His mission is to inspire agents to achi...

Today's episode celebrates three years since the first ever episode of Opening The Gates To More Listings was released and sees my very first guest, Stephen Brown come back on the show to interview me. We discuss my key learnings from over the last three years and my biggest takeaways from recent conferences I spoke at; The Estate Agent Success Summit, FIACON 2025, and KerfuffleCON. The conver...

Today's guest is the Training and Development Director at The Experts Group and supports self employed experts whilst they build and grow their businesses in productivity and revenue by providing a world class training and coaching experience from day one! The Experts Group includes self employed Sales, Lettings, Mortgage, Auction, Recruitment, Commercial, Marketing and Travel experts across the U...

Today's guest is the CEO of Andrew Property Group, a leading property services provider in the UK with 40 offices across the south of the country. Andrews is owned by a charitable trust and has contributed over £10,000,000 to fund social and innovative charitable enterprises since 1994. In his role he oversees the strategic direction and growth of the commercial division, including residential sal...

Today's guest is a Super Prime real estate advisor and Associate Partner for The Private Office. In 2024, he founded Offmarket to facilitate collaborative working, fee sharing and networking between brokers and independent agents. Offmarket is now home to over 200 industry professionals and is growing organically, by invitation only. He has sold properties at all end of the market, from Cardif...

Today's guest is Partnerships Manager at Smart Compliance. He has over a decade of experience across the industry and has worn multiple hats across several different roles. Probably best known for the incredible work he did at Agents Together in helping to facilitate 1,000 mentorships. In this conversation, we discuss compliance, AML, what it's like having family in the industry and some very rand...

Today's guest is Director & Head of Residential Sales at Robert Irving Burns. Before getting involved in property, he spent many years in sports sponsorship and you will hear how this then transitioned into becoming an estate agent in 2003. We discuss some of the key learnings he has had over the past 20+ years of being an agent, covering topics such as fees, pricing, conveyancing, networking,...

Today's guest is the Operations Manager at Greenhouse OS and has years of experience behind her within the industry, having worn multiple hats across her career. From sales to lettings, financial services to tech, and so much more, she has a vast amount of experience to share. In our conversation, we discuss CRM systems, training, blended fees, AI, and loads of other useful content that will help...

Today's guest is the founder and director of PVS Media, which provides a wide range of video, photographic and animation services to large and small businesses throughout the UK. ​Since 2017 they have been working across a broad range of industries to film, create and edit thousands of unique pieces of content. Their work includes partnerships with Dataloft, Belvoir, Acaboom, Propertymark, Spicerh...

Today's guest is the Co-Founder of Valuation Leads, which nurtures your database with AI emails to generate valuations. Prior to this, he spent five years working at Chestertons and has used this experience to help him to start his business. In this conversation we discussed, the real challenges agents are facing right now, what’s broken in lead generation (and how to fix it) why automation isn’t...

Today's guest is none other than me 'Simon Gates' being interviewed by Sam Hunter, the inspiration behind me launching the podcast in the first place. In this special episode to celebrate 200 episodes, Sam interviews me on what I have taken away from the 9,000 minutes of content and numerous interviews I have had with some of the leading figures across the industry. We discuss where th...

Today's guest is a director with Fine & Country and has recently celebrated ten years of business ownership. He has smashed it out of the park over the past decade in being a self-employed estate agent in the upper quartile of the market. Having won numerous awards for being a top performer in Fine & Country, he shares some of the secrets to his success, such as door knocking, direct mail,...

Today's guest is Founder of Empty Property Hunters and Simon Taylor - Property With Simon. He has 20 plus years experience in the property industry and has worked in both the hybrid and self-employed space during his career before launching Empty Property Hunters. During this time he has had millions of views on social media and has become very well known for his video content online, which we dis...

Today's guest is a Real Estate Influencer, Trainer, Coach, Auctioneer , Author and, Public Speaker. He is the founder of the Real Estate Gym, Australasia’s #1 real estate coach and trainer, plus he is the Co-Host of Million Dollar Agent with John McGrath and Troy Malcolm. He opened his own real estate office at 22 years of age and has been immersed in the industry for over 30 years. With a Masters...

Today's guest is CEO at Iceberg Digital and the author of two best-selling business books on how marketing and data work to create unstoppable companies. He has been featured on both Sky TV and Forbes, speaks regularly on stage around these subjects both nationally and internationally and has been shortlisted for a lifetime achievement award in the Proptech industry. Iceberg Digital is a Multi Awa...

Today's guest is owner of Cerrone Estates and an agent who has capped every year with eXp and is also a 4x ICON agent. After 20 plus years in the industry she is now looking to help and support other estate agents to change their lives personally and financially! You will understand from our conversation that she has walked the walk and has a proven track record to help other agents succeed too. W...

Today's special episode was recorded in front of a live audience in May in partnership with Estate Agency Mastery. We discussed our biggest learnings from recording approx 10,000 minutes worth of interviews across 250 episodes since launching the first podcast just under three years ago. In this conversation you will find out what the highest performing estate agents are doing differently to s...

Today's guest is shining a light into the black hole of conveyancing. He runs The Partnership and Legalito, specialising in the provision of services and technology that genuinely meet a need; exploiting technology to support, not replace, service. Transactions are taking far too long to go through in England & Wales, which is why I was keen to have this conversation with someone who is really...

Today's guest is (The one with the Beard) and 'The least ‘estate agenty’ Estate Agent, ever.' He helps estate agents who have two or more years operational experience start and scale their own personality driven estate agency and is also a bespoke estate agent & growth ambassador Powered by eXp UK, offering industry leading marketing & social first content designed to deliver for an exclus...

Today's returning guest is the CEO of RESIC Group, which manages cutting-edge businesses that solve real problems to enhance the lives of property buyers, home owners and property professionals across Australia. RESIC group consists of HoLo Home Loans, Happy Buyers Club, and, Develo. Prior to this he was the COO of Homesearch for several years and previously an estate agent in both London and Bris...

Today's guest is the sales manager at The ValPal Network and has been part of the Angels Media team since 2012. He helps estate and letting agents grow their businesses by helping them utilise the range of products under The ValPal Network umbrella. With over 4,000 agents in The ValPal Network he is very well positioned to give advice on what the very best estate agents are doing differently to st...

Today's returning guest for a now unprecedented sixth time is the founder of We Are Unchained, a strategic marketing consultancy that helps businesses grow faster by enhancing their market insight, strategy, activity, and talent. Over his 8 years experience in the estate agency industry, he has worked with Countrywide, Fine & Country, Keller Williams, and Knight Frank. He's also a ment...

Today's guest is the Operating Director of Oakleigh Blue and Founder of Letting Wizard, Straight Line Letting, Elevate Agent, and author of World Class Letting Agent. He is helping letting agents achieve their performance and financial goals by coaching and mentoring them using his 30+ years of experience and being involved in over 6,000 completed transactions. His pedigree is evidenced from being...