Selling the City

If you're looking for a real estate show, stay far away from this one. The show rarely showcases the real estate business and focuses instead on the most ridiculous and obscurely childish drama. Beyond that, you're forced to deal with both tacky style and conversation. I don't know where these people come from, but lord do they lack class and any sort of modesty. Genuinely cringeworthy and not worth the time.

Maybe they should focus more on selling so they'll stop telling the entire world about their unnecessary personal business and actually provide something worth watching.

Owning Manhattan was better once they focused more on the selling than the infighting/drama b.s. - I'd switch to that.

As a guy who had to buy several apartmens in different countries, I actually found the first episode of the first season of this show quite educational. While it was sleep-inducing because of its extreme stupidity, it's still valuable material. If even you only have to watch a single episode to have enough of it. First off, these vultures actually take about 3% commissions off any apartment they sell. And for what? For sitting all dressed up in an office and getting driven by their drivers to the apartment just to show it to you? Well, I guess there is lots of tricky paperwork that someone in the backoffice or elsewhere does, so you'd be better off hiring them than working with the seller directly? Anyways, they are certainly trash. Much more than I used to think from dealing with several real estate agents in my life (no, not the "elite" ones). I would never ever want to have any people like that in my life. And I'd sooner kill myself than marry anyone like that. Actually, they aren't even young. Probably in their late 30s? Since they keep mentioning stuff that happened 10 years ago, and they already were in this industry. The main message of this show however is probably not something you'd expect. It's to stay away from New York because it's clearly in a bubble and is uninvestable. The way these girls are thriving on this bubble is just appauling. You don't want to buy into that. Instead, you should buy when these girls go bankrupt cuz there are no sales. One funny sentence I'll remember from this show is "you have to know luxury to sell luxury". Exactly the way of thinking of a vulture. Avoid vultures and parasites.

The amount of times I hear them talk about themselves is nauseating.

Every five minutes you get bombarded with waves of " I this I that I know I feel I hate I I I" and then a 5 sec head shot of them pouting or shrugging or flipping their hair.

The show is just a collection of scenes where each girl just takes turn to talk about themselves (repeatedly) and the real estate becomes the background.

And the intro and ending of each scene (which takes up almost half the scene) is shots of themselves walking up to the table, door, chair.... Like how many times did they have to shoot that scene? Nothing else but a brain rot show as background while you scroll your phone.

It's boring, simple as that, they don't show enough of the properties for sale, most of the people on the show I care nothing about, I can't even remember their names, they are superficial, after the first episode I was kinda into it, but it just went down hill from there, it's good background noise, as I am working from home, I will finish the series because I don't like to leave a show unfinished (I'm on episode 4) but it's just a bland show, heck even selling the oc is better than this, I recommend owning manhattan, it has just the right amount of listings, career driven employees and drama.

I thought its gonna be similar to Owning Manhattan, with negotiation strategies, beautiful locations, real life work situations. But this show is wasting of time. Instead of enjoying luxury real estate, I was forcing myself to watch hoping its gonna be better. All I saw unprofessional soap drama, cheap looks, tacky makeups with lashes most New York woman would never wear. This show is very similar to Selling Sunset, which I stopped watching after half episode. Instead of real estate It was mostly about overdone girls and their tacky drama. These guys made the whole real estate industry look like trash, can't believe someone paid to make this show. Will never watch season 2.