Opening The Gates To More Listings

Simon Gates
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Nov 13, 2025 • 55min

Episode 243: Jack Kingsley MARLA & NAEA

Today's guest is the Managing Director of Kingsley Estates, which he launched in March 2025. After 8 years with Imagine Property Group Ltd, 8 years with Your Move, and 1 year at Taylors, he decided to start his own business.We discuss social media, video, building a lettings business, old school sales and loads more in this energetic conversation.Make sure to check out this episode to hear a no nonsense approach to estate agency with someone who has gained lots of traction on social media in recent months from his authentic behind the scenes content.
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Nov 10, 2025 • 56min

Episode 242: Giles Ellwood

Today's guest is the CEO and Founder at Homesearch and is on a mission to transform UK Property Search with AI + CRM.Homesearch is an intelligent property platform that puts estate agents back in control of the market by combining rich data, seamless tools, and AI-first design.As CEO & Founder of Homesearch.co.uk, he leads a team transforming how homes are discovered, valued, and marketed with a platform that connects the dots between instructions, CRMs, and serious buyers, giving agents in the Homesearch network an edge.Over the past 15+ years, he's launched and scaled multi-million-pound businesses in tech and publishing and is now focused on reshaping UK property by creating tools that are smarter, faster, and fairer; for agents, buyers, and sellers alike.We discuss how Homesearch is aiming to increase transaction numbers, their AI system 'HAILO', leadership, recruitment, leadership, and world records.Make sure to listen to this episode and hear from one of the two men who took a chance on me in early 2020, helping pave the way for me to start this podcast and launch my own business.
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Nov 6, 2025 • 49min

Episode 241: Dan Woods

Today's guest is a bespoke estate agent who specialises in elite and prime homes across Warlingham, Woldingham, and Caterham, and the surrounding Surrey areas.With 20+ years of experience, we uncover his tailored approach, innovative marketing and commitment to getting the best outcome for his clients.We discuss going self-employed, social media, video, door-knocking, off-market opportunities and collaboration to name a few of the topics covered.Make sure to check this episode out as it is packed full of plenty of things that agents can implement immediately to make a huge difference in their business.
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Nov 3, 2025 • 31min

Episode 240: Kenny Bruce MBE

Today's guest is the Co-Founder of Purple Bricks and is now Senior Non-Executive Director for The Agency UK.He was also a Founder Member and Volunteer Mentor at Agents Together and owned Larne Football Club between 2017 and 2025, which saw him awarded an MBE for his services to charity and community in Larne.We discuss marketing, tech, culture, prospecting and loads more invaluable content for estate agents in a very short space of time.The episode is full of absolute gold with one of the biggest disruptors the UK estate agency industry has seen, you definitely do not want to miss this one!
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Oct 30, 2025 • 1h 1min

Episode 239: Katy Billany

Today's guest is Executive Director at TwentyCi.Having worked within the property sector for over 17 years, she has seen first-hand how the right data and insights can reduce agents' costs and transform performance.TwentyEA, part of the TwentyCi Group, provide a unique suite of tools which track almost every inch of the property market with the most accurate and precise data in the UK. Additionally, their unique insight on upcoming new instructions will directly put you one step ahead of your competition.Want to know exactly which properties are coming on to the market or who is keen to switch agents?Want to compare your brand performance against competitors?Want to know more about a property ready for the market appraisal?I'm a huge fan of the data TwentyCi provides and in this discussion we dive into their latest insights from the property & homemover Q3 2025 report, which is packed full of insightful data to help estate agents better understand the market.Q3 market performance, activity levels, off-market sales, withdrawn listings, price reductions, pensioner market, Open Rent, and the self-employed world, we covered a lot of topics into our conversation.If you're an estate agent serious about using data in your business to track the numbers that matter, you don't want to miss this episode.
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Oct 27, 2025 • 1h 18min

Episode 238: Simon Leadbetter

Today's returning guest for a now unprecedented eight 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 also a mentor at Agents Together, Propertymark Trust Ambassador and Fractional CMO for Lemon and Lime Interiors.With over 30 years of marketing experience across multiple sectors, from startups to FTSE100, he has turned failing marketing teams around, and educated hundreds of people on the science and art of marketing.His mission is to make quality strategic marketing and practical advice accessible to every business, whether they need a virtual CMO, a one-to-one mentor, or a marketing trainer.In this episode, we discuss the results of part four of the Voice of The Agent 2025, covering topics such as how consumers are finding a property, use of AI, confidence in house prices, choosing an agent, stamp duty, brand awareness, Renters Rights, Open Rent, social media, awards, and the conveyancing process. If you've not already read part four of the report, please do contact me for a copy of it and I will happily share it with you, plus be sure to check if there are still any tickets left for The Voice of The Agent conference on 7th November at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes as it is going to be an amazing event.
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Oct 23, 2025 • 1h 1min

Episode 237: Rachel Ollington

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't want to miss this episode, especially if you're looking to scale a lettings business.
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Oct 20, 2025 • 49min

Episode 236: Rory Black

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 tune in and hear from someone that has dealt with some of the very best estate agents across the country and find out how to stand out in a very crowded market.
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Oct 16, 2025 • 59min

Episode 235: Lottie Foden

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, networking, collaboration and so much more to help get an idea of how to successfully launch your own business.
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Oct 13, 2025 • 51min

Episode 234: Jorge Gayle

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 culture and working environment that can last decades.Black Swan consultants are seasoned former law enforcement negotiators and business savy individuals who have spent significant amounts of time on the front lines of negotiation and understand the distinction between academic theoretical instruction and the requirements of the real world.In our conversation, we discuss a lot of the techniques used by the Black Swan group such as no-orientated questions, labels, tonality, dynamic silence, and loads more content that estate agents can go action today to make a fundamental difference to their business.You do not want to miss this episode with a person who offers incredible value and works alongside Chris Voss, who is author of one my favourite books 'Never Split The Difference'.

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