"You only have one reputation. And once it's burnt, it's burnt." Grant J Bates sold a £61.3 million house in Holland Park, the highest-value residential sale in the UK that year, and says the corporate estate agency model that trained him is dead.Five years earlier, when he started filming his listings for Instagram, his friends told him he was a moron and his employer sent him cease-and-desist letters. He kept going, and in 2025 launched his own brokerage.In this conversation Maria tells him about the estate agent who physically pushed her away from a development she wanted to see when she was buying her first flat, and asks him the question everyone asks her at dinner: should you rent or buy?───────────────────👤 GRANT J BATESGrant J Bates has worked every level of London property, from lettings in Wembley at 17 to running the private office of a major corporate firm for ultra-high-net-worth clients. He now runs Grant J Bates Property, the independent brokerage he founded in 2025.Website: https://www.grantjbates.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/grantjbates/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grantjbatesLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/grant-james-bates-9137574a───────────────────🎙 FOLLOW MARIA HVOROSTOVSKYIG: https://www.instagram.com/anatomyofaleader/IG: https://www.instagram.com/mariahvo/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahvo/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maria.hvo/Website: https://www.anatomyofaleader.com/Artwork and video by https://www.londonbeautyphotographer.com/

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