
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

Oct 13, 2022 • 31min
Episode 14: Phil Jones
Today's guest is the Managing Director of Ashdown Jones and Co-Founder of Firewave.
As well as running his own estate agency, he is a direct mail and content specialist for the industry.
Continuously learning and teaching, he shares some great advice and practices what he preaches.

Oct 6, 2022 • 34min
Episode 13: Matt Baldock
Today's guest is a director and co-owner of Charles David Casson and a Fine & Country licence holder.
He is all about his team (not staff) and a firm believer in people before numbers.
Continuously doing what he can to improve the Estate Agency industry both for the people working in it and the clients they are helping.
He brings lots of great learnings to this episode from his experience as a sales/letting agent, and business owner, and from just being one off the good guys of the industry.

Oct 2, 2022 • 35min
Episode 12: Ben Marley
Today's guest is Commercial Director at The ESTAS Group and a volunteer mentor at Agents Together.
He Helps businesses to grow customer acquisition and improve retention through consumer data and insights.
He brings lots of great learnings to this episode from his experience as a supplier and consumer in this industry.

Sep 29, 2022 • 48min
Episode 11: Christopher Watkin
Today's guest is 'The Landlord Whisperer' and he helps Letting Agents attract Landlords to swap agents to their lettings agency amongst many other things across the industry.
He shares his tried and tested methods that estate and letting agents up & down the country are using to grow their business.

Sep 25, 2022 • 26min
Episode 10: Ian Macbeth
Today's guest is the Founder and Managing Partner of Avocado Property.
After years of experience in the corporate world, he created a new type of estate agency just as Covid hit in March 2020 and shares how he navigated this to create the Avocado brand that you see today.

Sep 11, 2022 • 32min
Episode 9: Mark Hinkins
Today's guest is the UK Head of Sales at Rexlabs.
He gives some great advice on how to best use the data you have in your CRM to retain existing business and create new business as well.
He also shares some really interesting stats that can make a huge difference in the way you go about generating more listings.

Sep 8, 2022 • 42min
Episode 8: Perry Power
Today's guest is a self-confessed estate agency geek and a very forward-thinking business owner. He gives amazing value on what tech to use, who to follow for motivation, and, how he best learns to achieve all this.

Sep 1, 2022 • 35min
Episode 7: Ben Madden
Today's guest is a seasoned estate agent and business owner. He shares valuable insight from his experience and what is helping him succeed in the upper quartile of the West London market with Fine & Country.

Aug 25, 2022 • 26min
Episode 6: Brendan May
Today's guest has a thirst for learning and helping others across the industry. He talks about books, tech, and how to win listings as a new business.

Aug 18, 2022 • 35min
Episode 5: Damion Merry
Today's guest is a real estate agent at Luxury Property Partners. He shares where he finds his inspiration and how he leverages social media to carve a niche in the luxury property market.