Buying Beverly Hills

I was hesitant to watch this as I feel real estate shows are overpowering the reality television genre. I was worried that this was going to be another version of Selling Sunset.

However I'm saying this, I really enjoyed watching Buying Beverly Hills. It was refreshing to see actual realtors who are industry professionals.

I thought they each had good storyline's seperate to real estate. I would have liked to have seen Allie a bit more, I feel she could be great tv if she had more air time.

Hope they make a second season so we can see how it plays out with Sofia potentially joining The Agency.

I think the first reviewer has been unnecessarily harsh. This is not Emmy Winning material, but it nails perfectly what provides the appeal of every high end real estate reality show. Homes we cannot afford. Jobs we do not have. Clothes we cannot fit into or afford. Cars we do not drive. Lives we admire. It is a window into a sometimes superficial world, but damn it's so much fun. Get caught up in the storyline, relationships, and jaw droppingly stunning Beverly Hills real estate. Fabulous.

Tracking the professional and personal interplay between the family and work colleagues is great fun, and I am looking forward to future seasons.

I decided to watch the whole season to give it a fair review. Although there were a few entertaining moments (very few) it felt like the Alexia show. Although her older sister, Farrah is in the show, you get the idea that she is Cinderella in the sense that she handles a good majority of the day to day office work because Mauricio is too busy. Alexia gets things handed to her, spends her time invested in office gossip, playing ping pong and going out to lunch. And to top it off she doesn't understand why people think she is the office spoiled brat and unapproachable.

I though it would include more sales of homes that they show us. No in reality we see beautiful decadent homes that never sell or we don't actually see the sale. A few open houses, a lot of drinking and of course office gossip but actually selling, who has time? However we do see the family home sold by Alexia who was... big surprise given the listing.

Well if you are actually interested in seeing homes sold choose another option. If your only wish is to go from Alexia's issue to issue with other office gossip thrown in then this is the show for you.

My advice to the show's producers, at least be honest and change the name to the Alexia Umansky show with guest appearances by Cinderella and Mauricio.

Buying Beverly Hills has some magnificent homes for sale on it. The restaurant scenes and house party scenes are entertaining. People who have resided in Los Angeles county for 10-50 years have witnessed the awe-inspiring million dollar residences, attended parties held in some of these luxurious homes, dined at upscale restaurants just minutes away from these properties, or stayed in top-notch hotels located near these homes. What the majority of Hollywood fans don't want is additional drama centered on the families and real estate agents involved in selling those homes for the owners. Yes, many of the owners happen to be well-known celebrities. This TV show mainly focuses on the drama and parties among the Beverly Hills real estate agents, with only a small portion, around 25%, dedicated to selling homes. Who cares, in my humble opinion?

So I just watched Season 2 of this vapid show. Farrah needs to learn that she can't control people -- in this case, her friend Melissa. Nor can she control other people and what they say about her relationship. That's life, baby. Sophia cares more about how she looks than about building a career as far as I can tell. They're all shallow and materialistic and competitive (not in a good way). I can pretty much bet that they will never be happy because they don't understand that life is about learning, growing, having compassion for others and just being good people and being ethical. These people have a long way to go to maturity but that's ok. The universe will smack them upside the head......