Ryan Matthew Serhant (born July 2, 1984)[1] is an American entrepreneur, tech CEO, investor, real estate broker,[2] author, and reality television personality. He starred on Bravo's television series Million Dollar Listing New York for nine seasons, as well as on its spin-off Sell it Like Serhant. He is the star and executive producer of Owning Manhattan, a reality show on Netflix.[3][4] He is also the founder and CEO of Serhant, an American real estate firm.[5][6][7]
In 2008 Serhant ventured into the New York real estate market.[13] During his first year, he earned just $9,000.[14] After a year-long pursuit, he closed his first major sale of $8.5 million.[14] By 2012, The Real Deal ranked Serhant #15 out of the 100 most successful agents in New York.[14]
In 2012, he launched his bi-coastal brokerage team, the Serhant Team, which consisted of 60 people in New York City, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Miami, and the Hamptons.[5] The Serhant Team specialized in high-end residential condo and co-op sales, homes, and new development sales.[5]
On September 15, 2020, Serhant announced that he was starting his own real estate firm, SERHANT.[17]
Television
In 2010, Serhant auditioned for the Million Dollar Listing New York (MDLNY) reality show and was cast as one of three real estate agents featured on the show.[18][14] The first episode of MDLNY aired on Bravo on March 7, 2012, and followed Serhant, Fredrik Eklund, and Michael Lorber across some of New York's most exclusive real estate deals.[19]
In 2017, Serhant produced and launched the Bravo television show Sell It Like Serhant, a spin-off of MDLNY in which he coaches under-performing salespeople.[14]
The 9th season of Million Dollar Listing New York premiered in the spring of 2021, along with a new spin-off show starring Serhant called Ryan's Renovation. The limited series followed Serhant and his family as they renovated their home in Brooklyn.[21]
On June 28, 2024, Serhant's reality show Owning Manhattan premiered on Netflix.[22]
Books
On September 18, 2018, the week of his 10-year anniversary in real estate, Serhant published his first book, Sell It Like Serhant:How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine.[23] He has authored two more books: Big Money Energy,[24] and Brand it Like Serhant.[25]
Courses
On August 15, 2019, Serhant launched Sell It Like Serhant: The Course, a real estate sales course.[26]
Personal life
In 2016, Serhant married lawyer Emilia Bechrakis in Corfu, in a Greek church, following Serhant's conversion to the Greek Orthodox Church.[27] A four-part mini-series, Million Dollar Listing New York: Ryan's Wedding, chronicled the event and aired on Bravo in the fall of 2016.[28][29]
Serhant and Bechrakis have one daughter, who was born in 2019.[30]
In 2021, the couple finished a 3-year renovation of a $7.8 million townhouse in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn;[31] the renovation was documented in a Bravo four-part mini-series, Million Dollar Listing: Ryan's Renovation,[32] which aired in June 2021.
↑Owning Manhattan (Reality-TV), Jessica Markowski, Jonathan Nørmølle, Nile Lundgren, June 28, 2024, retrieved August 2, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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