Ryan Serhant’s Flashy ‘Proudly owning Manhattan’ Raises Bar For Actuality TV
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Proudly owning Manhattan, Ryan Serhant’s flashy encore following the runaway success of actuality exhibits Million Greenback Itemizing New York and Promote it Like Serhant, raises the bar on the genre by amping up manufacturing values and specializing in brokers, not drama.
The collection dropped all eight episodes Friday on Netflix — a shift from Bravo, the place Serhant’s earlier exhibits aired — and affords viewers an unflinching take a look at what it takes to turn out to be a profitable agent in one of the crucial aggressive markets on the earth. The collection follows Serhant as he goals to show he can lead a secure of brokers together with Chloe Tucker Caine, Nile Lundgren, Tricia Lee Riley and Jade Shenker as they search to climb New York Metropolis’s luxurious market.
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What units the present other than different actual estate-focused actuality tv exhibits is a plot that is still targeted on actual property (and, sure, a little bit interpersonal drama), high quality manufacturing, and a wider-lens view of SERHANT.’s enterprise.
Have a look under at 5 elements that put Proudly owning Manhattan in a special class than its opponents.
Tricia Lee Riley and Jeffrey St. Arromand in episode 2 of “Proudly owning Manhattan” | Credit score: Courtesy of Netflix/© 2024 Netflix, Inc.
A compelling plot
Within the premier episode, Serhant lays out the stakes: He’s put the whole lot on the road for his new brokerage to succeed — even his home.
Serhant launched his eponymously named brokerage in 2020. 4 years later it’s nonetheless younger and teeming with hungry brokers, and Proudly owning Manhattan displays their drive to reach the business.
For the brokerage to succeed, Serhant makes clear within the episode that he’ll must carry out on the highest stage, each as a CEO and as an agent on his personal listings. The collection follows him as he recruits brokers and races to make sure they’re matched with the precise purchasers and listings.
Strain mounts, not only for Serhant however the forged of brokers, who take pains to indicate they belong on the brokerage and may survive in a cutthroat market. That’s to not say there isn’t drama between sturdy personalities, however actual property is on the heart of the present.
The listings on the road are additionally enormous: A $195 million penthouse at Central Park Tower, and one other on the Jardim, an Isay Weinfeld-designed luxurious constructing in Manhattan, the place a serious celeb scoops up a rental in a single episode.
“The [Central Park Tower] penthouse is in contrast to another dwelling on the earth,” Serhant advised Inman. “It’s a singular trophy property for the precise purchaser. We present it on a regular basis, we’ve obtained a number of affords on it — I’m actually negotiating a suggestion on it proper now. So, knock on all of the wooden please — in the event you’re sitting at a wooden desk, please knock on it. It’s only a focused advertising course of, which I believe is why we get employed.”
High quality manufacturing
Over time, Serhant’s calling card has been his give attention to social media and video content material, so it’s hardly a shock that manufacturing values in Proudly owning Manhattan are superior to comparable exhibits.
With SERHANT. Studios, the agency established its personal video manufacturing arm to assist brokers spotlight their model and listings. That dedication can be mirrored in Proudly owning Manhattan.
From cinematography decisions to music, the collection emulates status TV, even hinting at HBO’s Succession due to a soundtrack that sounds a little bit bit like that present’s hit theme song. The elevated particulars are delicate, however add as much as one thing that appears like a lower above different actual estate-focused exhibits.
“Proudly owning Manhattan” forged members at a premiere occasion in New York on June 20, 2024, together with from left to proper, Genesis Suero, Jordan March, Tricia Lee Riley, Savannah Gowarty, Jessica Taylor, Chloe Tucker Caine, Ryan Serhant, Nile Lundgren, Jessica Markowski, Jeffrey St. Arromand, Jordan Harm, Jonathan Normolle and Jade Shenker | Credit score: Jason Malihan
Highlighting business actual property
Business properties are inclined to get ignored on actuality TV. However SERHANT.’s Shenker, who based the agency’s business division, blows preconceived notions about business actual property out of the water.
Exuding confidence, Shenker will get energized speaking concerning the sector and shares her revolutionary concepts for advertising the property. Shenker grew up amongst a household of builders so she’s had time to domesticate her personal concepts concerning the business.
Her strategy, which receives the display screen time it deserves on Proudly owning Manhattan, could possibly be one path into the longer term for aspiring younger business brokers and is price being attentive to.
Spotlighting brokers of quite a lot of niches, expertise ranges, market areas
The brokers highlighted in Proudly owning Manhattan are a refreshingly numerous bunch. Some brokers have been within the business for 17 years and a few are nonetheless within the first couple years of their careers.
Additionally they characterize quite a lot of backgrounds, races, personalities and market niches.
It’s not that different actual property actuality TV exhibits utterly exclude these items, however Proudly owning Manhattan appears to do a greater job of representing all these views in additional equal measure. And regardless of the title, viewers see brokers like Tricia Lee Riley working in different boroughs, together with Brooklyn.
Chloe Tucker Caine, Jessica Taylor, Jordan Harm and Genesis Suero in episode 8 of “Proudly owning Manhattan” | Credit score: Courtesy of Netflix/© 2024 Netflix, Inc.
Getting a glimpse into the bigger agency
The forged of Proudly owning Manhattan is about the identical measurement as different actuality TV exhibits, with a core group of 13 individuals. It’s massive sufficient for quite a lot of storylines whereas cautious to not unfold them too skinny.
For essentially the most half, the motion of the present follows these core forged members. Along with Serhant, Caine, Lundgren, Lee Riley and Shenker, the forged options brokers Jessica Markowski, Jessica Taylor, Jordan Harm, Jonathan Nørmølle, Jordan March, Savannah Gowarty, Jeffrey St. Arromand and Genesis Suero. Throughout the brokerage, SERHANT. boasts roughly 600 agents along the East Coast.
Serhant, in the meantime, affords his personal insights on the rising pains that inflict CEOs like him. At one level, he marvels at how keen his brokers are for one-on-one mentorships — one thing he doesn’t have the bandwidth to supply.
“It’s been a studying course of for me,” Serhant advised Inman.
“For some time, I believed that I could lead on and handle as a result of that’s what I did once I had my staff. However the staff was a lot, a lot smaller. And because the firm scales, you need to decide: Do you need to be a frontrunner or do you need to be a supervisor? You’ll be able to’t be each. And I believe leaders do the precise issues and managers do issues proper. And I’ve needed to be taught that the arduous method as we’ve grown and scaled. It’s been enjoyable, however man oh man, is it quite a bit.”
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