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

Category

Education

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Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 187: Steph Walker & Chris Buckler 08.05.2025

Today's returning guests have recently joined forces to create a super brokerage with TAUK. They aim to help personal estate agents build thriving businesses and fix the relationship between the public and estate agents. One of them is a no nonsense and straight talking powerhouse of the industry, whilst the other is a coach, mentor, and self-confessed estate agency geek. You do not want to miss t...

Episode 186: Dayalan Mahesan 05.05.2025

Today's guest is a self-employed estate agent with Keller Williams and has taken the industry by storm over the past five years. He is a Keller Williams “Top Producer Agent”and part of the Keller Williams Agent Leadership Council. In this conversation we discuss self-employed estate agency and getting started, landlord lead generation, the importance of networking and being part of your community,...

Episode 185: Ian Wilkinson 01.05.2025

Today's guest is the Founder of Snowden Wilkinson Estate Agents and Agent MXM. Having founded Snowden Wilkinson 20 years ago, we talk about his learnings from over the years, such as the power of social media, allowing your team to have a personal brand, marketing to different demographics, and much much more. We also discuss his new venture into the self-employed world and he gives lots of valuab...

Episode 184: Holly Boylan 28.04.2025

Today's guest is Head of Operations & Client Experience at The Avenue and is set on providing the best environment for the agents they partner with to WIN and become the business owners, they truly want to be. This incredibly inspiring conversation covers the importance of culture, mindset, fitness, processes, and finding your niche. If you want to find out some of the secrets behind the succe...

Episode 183: Ali Harper 24.04.2025

Today's guest is the owner of Harpers Property People and is a triple eXp ICON. He is now based in Northumberland, but his career has seen his work in London for some of the biggest names within the industry such as KFH, Spicerhaart, Purplebricks, and Keller Williams, before deciding to launch his own business in June 2021. Harpers have gone on to sell over 300 properties during this time from a c...

Episode 182: Toren Farrelly 21.04.2025

Today's guest is Director of Mode Photo, specialising in property marketing throughout Essex, London & Hertfordshire. From photography, videography, and floorplans, to EPC’s, CGi’s virtual staging, and drone photography, Mode Photo aims to deliver the full package in one visit at the highest standard within 24 hours. Some call them Amazon of property marketing and I can see why from our conver...

Episode 181: Matt Giggs 17.04.2025

Today's returning guest is the founder of The Giggs Group and co-host of the Property-Pxrn Stars podcast. 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 property...

Episode 180: Dan Firth 14.04.2025

Today's returning guest is the Managing Director at Bid, which partners with estate agents to offer greater choice and security for someone when selling or buying a home. He's also a consultant and trainer to the property industry and a mentor with Agents Together. His twenty plus year career in the property industry has seen him work for some of the largest players in the market, from corporate,...

Episode 179: Alistair Trippett 10.04.2025

Today's guest is the Managing Director of Heywoods Estate Agents. He purchased Heywoods in October 2022 whilst only in his twenties and has been the driving force behind it going from strength to strength and increasing the profitability of the business over the past couple of years. On his mission, he has embraced learning from others, collaboration, the power of a network, leveraging social medi...

Episode 178: Mark Hinkins & Danny Lambert 07.04.2025

Today's returning guests and duo are the Ant & Dec of the CRM world for estate agents as I bring to you this special episode recorded live at Rex HQ. This conversation is one from the archives and actually took place all the way back in May 2024 and has finally found its way out of the lost episodes and into the published category. These guys really know what they are talking about when it com...

Episode 177: Jonathan Southgate 03.04.2025

Today's guest is the founder of Sterling Southgate, who offer a brighter alternative to the traditional perception of mortgage and wealth protection. In a first for the podcast, it was great to speak to someone from the mortgage side of estate agency as I continue to aim to speak with the best in the business across the different sectors of the industry to help agents become more well rounded expe...

Episode 176: Grant Bates 31.03.2025

Today's guest is Head of Private office London at Hamptons and is the highest followed Corporate UK estate agent on Instagram. He has an extensive public profile and has worked in the industry for the best part of 20 years. He has been proclaimed as the UK’s “Best Negotiator” by The Times. A “Superstar Agent” by the Financial Times and The Telegraph, and the “London’s Coolest Agent” by Living etc...

Episode 175: Phil M Jones 27.03.2025

Today's guest is a professional keynote speaker and is a multi-award winning author who is best known for his international best-selling book, Exactly What To Say. His books have sold over 1 million copies and received over 3,500 reviews on Amazon. To date, he has delivered over 2,500 presentations in over 800 different industries, across 59 countries and 5 continents. Trusted by dynamic and a...

Episode 174: Kevin Hollinrake 24.03.2025

Today's guest is the MP for Thirsk & Malton and currently also shadow secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities. Prior to becoming an MP in 2015, he has spent a career in the property industry starting in 1980's and then founding Hunters in 1992,  which is now one of the most successful and fastest-growing estate agencies in the UK. Hunters have over 200 branches nationwide...

Episode 173: Simon Squibb 20.03.2025

Today's guest needs no introduction, but for those of you who don't know him, he is definitely not your usual entrepreneur. He started his first business while homeless at just 15 and later sold his agency, Fluid to PwC for more money than he’ll ever need. Known for his viral move of buying a staircase in London and slapping a doorbell on it where folks can pitch their dreams, he's on...

Episode 172: Regina Mangan 17.03.2025

Todays' guest is the Managing Director of Liberty Blue Estate Agents and is Amazon no.1 Best selling author of “How to Build A Smarter Faster Better Estate Agency Business”. Liberty Blue is Ireland’s No. ONE rated estate agent on Google with over 1,000 reviews and an average rating of 4.9*. Her path has been greatly influenced by the wisdom of remarkable mentors within the Estate Agency Industry,...

Epsiode 171: Simon Leadbetter 13.03.2025

Today's returning guest for an unprecedented fifth 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 mentor...

Episode 170: Mat Steinwede 10.03.2025

Today's guest has gone from homeless to the #1 agent for McGrath and has an incredibly inspiring story to share. He is a world-class Sales Specialist, High Performance Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Founder of the 31 Minute Movement. With over 23 years’ experience dedicated solely to the real estate industry across the Central Coast, he has one of Australia’s best track records in property sale...

Episode 169: Lee Woodward 06.03.2025

Today's guest is the Chief Education Officer of Lee Woodward Training Systems and has over 30 years of experience in the real estate market. He is a designer, producer, editor and presenter of multimedia education for progressive real estate agents, leaders and businesses and also author of The Complete Salesperson Course and multiple books. Renowned for bringing a fresh perspective to the challen...

Episode 168: Roger Black MBE 03.03.2025

Today's guest is a retired athlete who competed internationally for Great Britain and England. During his career he won medals at the Olympics, World Championships, and European Championships. He was given an MBE in 1992 for services to athletics and was given an honorary degree at Southampton University in 1995. Today, he is now partner of BackleyBlack ltd, which is a performance based traini...

Episode 167: Kirsty Franks 28.02.2025

Today's guest is the Founder and Ceo of Frank Marketing. Frank Marketing specialise in growing market share and driving sales for estate agents and other property professionals, so we have the right person to come on the podcast. She is also Group Marketing Director for The Property Franchise Group and is also part of the committee for Women in Estate Agency. We have a great discussion around mark...

Episode 166: Simon Leadbetter 26.02.2025

Today's returning guest for an unprecedented fourth 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 mentor...

Episode 165: Linda Stringer MNAEA 24.02.2025

Today's guest is a self employed estate agent with eXp covering Sheffield & Rotherham. She has been in the industry since 2010 and has worked in the corporate and independent sectors. We discuss self-employed estate agency, video, social media, women in estate agency, and growing a team, plus lots more. Don't miss this episode if you want to hear some of the secrets behind the success of someo...

Episode 164: Jo Bourne 20.02.2025

Today's guest is Director of Impact ctmd Limited and uses her 30 plus years of experience to help businesses and individuals grow. This includes providing consultancy, people development and training across all aspects of customer service, estate agency, conveyancing and the house moving process. Having worked in the corporate space and hybrid model over the years, she has a wide range of experien...

Episode 163: Clare Yates MNAEA 17.02.2025

Today's guest is the owner of CY Training Works and specialises in helping estate agents and law firms to grow their business, and increase revenue through enhanced customer service. She is an award winning consultant with years of experience behind her and a proven track record within the property industry. Her role of helping law firms and estate agents grow their business is done training them...

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