

Opening The Gates To More Listings
Simon Gates
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.
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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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.

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.

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.

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'.

Oct 9, 2025 • 1h 2min
Episode 233: Lucy Joerin
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 takes to stand out, win premium instructions, and grow a high-end agency from the ground up. Since launching in 2017, she's grown across Oxfordshire and the Home Counties, selling beautiful, unique homes priced at £1m+.Through The Elite Agent Collective, her mastermind for ambitious estate agents, she now teaches others how to do the same, combining powerful marketing strategies with the mindset needed to thrive in this space.She's also passionate about supporting women in property, especially those who feel stuck, undercharging, or held back from playing bigger. As a certified mindset and business coach, she offers private mentorship to help women grow bold, values-led, financially free businesses on their own terms.In our conversation, we discuss the luxury market, the importance of masterminds and coaching, mindset, direct mail and so much more valuable content.You don't want to miss this episode if you want to learn from someone who is walking the walk in the higher end of the market.

Oct 6, 2025 • 58min
Episode 232: Matt Baldock
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 agency.Make sure to give this a listen and hear from one of my best mates in the industry and before he tells me off for not mentioning it, the brains behind the name of this podcast.

Oct 2, 2025 • 1h 2min
Episode 231: Mia Evans
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 several years ago in Cheshire and then moved to Chorley with Arnold and Phillips and decided to be her own boss in February 2023 partnering with The Agency UK.Having taken the self-employed world by storm, you don't want to miss this chat as she is absolutely smashing it and shares some of the secrets behind her success.

Sep 29, 2025 • 1h 10min
Episode 230: Stuart Greenwood
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 differently to deliver exceptional results.

Sep 25, 2025 • 53min
Episode 229: Gary Simpson
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 2021 and seeing them sell approximately 33% of all their listings here before launching to the portals.This then saw the launch of See It Here First, a property service offering users the chance to see exclusive homes before they appear on Rightmove and this has already resulted in 3,732 active users, 688 active properties, 116 viewings booked, and multiple sales taking place since its launch several weeks ago. You definitely don't want to miss this episode with a real visionary within the industry that I think has done some amazing things over the past few years whilst going under the radar that you will definitely learn plenty from.

Sep 22, 2025 • 52min
Episode 228: Jacob Littorin MNAEA
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 highly accredited qualifications that have provided him with the essential skills to sell properties while ensuring legislative compliance.In 2022 he was shortlisted as a finalist for Propertymark's Sales Candidate of the Year. He has also been a member of Sell It, the USA's largest sales training community, since 2019, which was founded by one of the most successful real estate agents in the USA, Ryan Serhant.He is tracking 1,200+ Islington listings, has published 20 monthly property market updates, and has authored 46 pages of buyer and seller guides.In this episode we discuss industry qualifications, personal brand, creativity, LinkedIn newsletters, knowing your market and much more.Make sure to tune in if you want to hear from someone who is making a serious dent in the UK property market before he's even getting started!


