
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.
Latest episodes

Jan 12, 2023 • 45min
Episode 34: Steph Walker
Today's guest has been in the industry for 20 years and has seen it all.
She has been on the High Street, corporate, hybrid, USA and is now COO & Founder of The Agency UK.
She is providing agents with the blueprint and all the tools, tech and support needed to build a successful business without needing bucketloads of cash.
Lots of experiences and expertise are shared in this episode that can be implemented immediately.

Jan 8, 2023 • 37min
Episode 33: Jo Parker
Today's guest has been in the industry for just over a decade now and is an associate with Fine & Country.
She achieves amazing results for her clients, has a great sense of humour and is an amazing person.
There are plenty of things to learn and action from this episode.

Jan 5, 2023 • 37min
Episode 32: Dom Marcel
Today's guest joined the industry at a similar to me in 2007 so you can blame us both for the market crash.
After a decade in the corporate world and working his way up to the regional director position, he started his own estate agency just under 4 years ago.
He founded Lion Estates with one goal in mind: to make Milton Keynes be seen as one of the best places to live in the UK (A man after my own heart).
He is an amazing estate agent, a phenomenal business owner, and most importantly a great person.
There is plenty to take from this episode to improve on all of the above.

Jan 1, 2023 • 45min
Episode 31: Tony Ruby
Today's guest has been serving our industry for over 15 years and started his own business in June 2021.
He strives to be the ‘Go to Property Guy' around Grantham and the surrounding area by utilising video marketing to reach a larger, wider and more varied audience.
Lots of golden nuggets to be taken away and implemented from this episode.

Dec 22, 2022 • 33min
Episode 30: Jazz Rawlings
Today's guest spent just under 4 years at a leading multi-branch estate agency and worked her way up from being their youngest employee to being an office manager in that time.
She recently got over 90,000 views on TikTok from in her words simply trying on a headband but understanding her target audience.
There are lots of outstanding shares in this episode for anyone newer to the industry or wanting to step out of their comfort zone.

Dec 15, 2022 • 36min
Episode 29: Rob Brady
Today's guest is an Elite Performance Coach at Iceberg Digital and heads up their Performance Department.
He is a multi award winning, qualified elite performance coach for Estate Agents and has coached 100’s of agents through huge transformations in their businesses.
He also complete challenges such as, running 48 miles in 48 hours, completing 7 marathons and co authoring a best selling business book.
Is there anything this man can't do!
There are lots of great shares in this episode that can be actioned immediately.

Dec 1, 2022 • 32min
Episode 28: Michael Nettleton
Today's guest is the Chairman of Nock Deighton and the founder of Agent Response.
He is an accidental PropTech inventor who brings lots of gold to this episode for agents to put to good use.

Nov 27, 2022 • 31min
Episode 27: James Humphries-Stone
Today's guest joined the property industry in 2004, at the age of 17 and co-founded his own estate agency in 2021.
Having worked in different business models across the industry, he offers a great perspective on how to generate more listings.

Nov 24, 2022 • 39min
Episode 26: Peter Pronger
Today's guest has been an estate agent for the past decade and launched his own estate agency in October 2021.
Some great shares from someone who has taken the leap from a secure employed role into business ownership and a lot to be taken from this episode.

Nov 20, 2022 • 32min
Episode 25: Tony Morris
Today's guest is a speaker, author, and podcast host and has helped develop over 36,000 sales professionals, across 62 industries.
He shares some real-life examples of how to win more business right now, retain more business for the future, and get better fees.