Selling the City

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.

I like two types of reality tv: feel-good shows like Queer Eye, Biggest Loser, etc., and the more guilty-pleasure type shows where you know there's going to be drama, but that's why you're there, like The Circle, or any of the many, many dating shows out there. This show is just garbage.

I was hoping to see luxury real estate in New York. That's about 5 minutes of the show. The rest is ridiculous drama that is cringy and had me rolling my eyes and saying "grow up". We never really find out if the people buy the apartments they're shown, but we definitely learn that these women still act like they are in high school. There are two guys in the show that seem to just be eye candy, from the slow closeup going up and down the shirtless body of the one guy, to the preview of the two of them playing basketball shirtless (I barely made it through the first episode and refuse to watch the rest).

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.

Despite claiming multi-million sales achievements and being associated with "the best agent in the city," these girls are dressed in a manner that doesn't reflect such success. Their attire seems incongruent with the image typically expected from individuals who are purportedly successful and operating at such a high level. It's surprising to see this juxtaposition between their purported achievements and their choice of clothing, which appears to be quite casual or even disheveled, almost as if they don't care about maintaining a polished, professional image that aligns with their stated accomplishments.

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.