Owning ManhattanIs Renewed for Season 2 — and Ryan Serhant Found a Creative Way to Announce the News

Mar. 15, 2025

Ryan Serhant announced that ‘Owning Manhattan’ was renewed in an Instagram video.Photo:Ryan Serhant/Instagram

Ryan Serhant/Instagram

Owning Manhattanis getting a second season, andRyan Serhantis ready.

Serhant announced that the Netflix reality series, which follows the agents at his eponymous brokerage, SERHANT, was renewed on Tuesday, Aug. 27, with an Instagram video that showed him repeatedly encountering the number two.

First, theMillion Dollar Listing: New Yorkalum looks up at a pair of signs indicating that he’s at the intersection of Second Avenue and Second Street. He then sees a vendor selling bottled water for $2.

Serhant is seen brokering a deal on his phone, telling someone, “If we do it on the 22nd, then I’ll do it for $2 million.” When he arrives at his office building, he’s sent to the second floor and told he missed a 12:22 p.m. meeting.

The video’s soundtrack fittingly includes the songs “It Takes Two” and “Just the Two of Us.”

Finally, he gets a call telling him that “the people want more” of his Netflix series, and he has the idea to display a billboard announcing season 2 on the building’s roof.

Serhant toldNetflix’s Tudumthat the response toOwning Manhattan’s first season, which premiered on June 28, has been “overwhelming.”

Ryan Serhant.Winnie Au/Netflix

Winnie Au/Netflix

“Expectations were so high for the fans, and I knew we were going to give them something unexpected,” he said. “Owning Manhattanis so original, and unlike any other show on the air, and to see people fall in love with it on such a global scale is so insane.”

Serhant added that tensions will be “high” in the upcoming season, and competition is “fierce.”

“Inventory is low everywhere which means there are not enough homes for our buyers, let alone our agents,” Serhant added. “So it’s all-out real estate warfare right now, with a lot of pressure on me as CEO to lead us in the right direction.”

Serhant advised viewers to “invest in a couch with a seatbelt,” teasing, “Turbulence is coming.”

The cast of ‘Owning Manhattan’.Winnie Au/Netflix

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One of Serhant’s agents featured on the show, Jessica Markowski,opened upabout working for him in a recent interview with PEOPLE.

Markowski called Serhant an “inspiring” leader, and said she “couldn’t ask for a better boss.”

“He understood my angle of how I’m able to generate leads through social media better than any other broker or brokerage would ever understand,” she added. “So having him as a boss, he’s very, very, very, very smart and we all look up to him.”

source: people.com