Sold! Owning Manhattan outsells Netflix's biggest real estate shows

Selling? Buying? No, it's all about Owning now on Netflix. Now that the streamer has established successful real estate reality series franchises with Selling Sunset and Selling the OC, as well as Buying Beverly Hills and Buying London, the next natural step selling and buying is ownership. Enter the Netflix new release reality series Owning Manhattan.

Ryan Serhant, who previously starred in the Bravo reality shows Million Dollar Listing and Sell It Like Serhant, headlines Owning Manhattan with his luxury real estate brokerage Serhant. in New York City. He and his fellow agents at his company work toward scoring the most expensive luxury listings Manhattan has to offer and becoming the most powerful brokerage in the world.

Are you wondering if you should take the plunge and try your hand at another Netflix reality show revovling around reality estate? Well, here's the long and short of it: Owning Manhattan knocks it out of the park to become the streamer's strongest real estate reality series and could very well usher in the dawn of the next leading guilty pleasure reality franchise.

Owning Manhattan has big drama in the big city

If you love Netflix's other reality shows of the same premise, like Selling Sunset and Selling the OC in particular, you will love Owning Manhattan. The show has just as much drama between Serhant's agents, though it's not nearly as overproduced as the Selling franchise (but still boasting classic reality production). It's enough to keep you hooked, though not enough to turn off potential viewers who aren't interested in keeping up with gossip.

Buying Beverly Hills and Buying London, too, feature drama while also showcasing the luxury properties in these famous locales, something Owning Manhattan balances well. The series shows off NYC real estate in a way most of us don't get to see up close, like ever, and gets into some of the nitty gritty of what it's like to do Serhant's job at the level he's at. You feel like you're in the room with him pitching these properties and making these deals because you basically are.

Here are the other biggest selling points: The first season of the series contains eight episodes and features an arc related to certain sales. Each episode is less than 50 minutes in length, meaning you can binge-watch and burn through the entire season in a single sitting (in about six hours, not counting bathroom and snack breaks!). And the season finale features a cliffhanger about Roman Roy's penthouse from Succession.

It may be your standard reality fare, but it's not a show that reality buffs should skip. Owning Manhattan is a must-watch for those addicted to Bravo's full lineup and all of the other reality shows that fans can't stop talking. Truly, Netflix seems to have refined the real estate sub-genre of reality television for their best show yet. Looks like the sun could be setting on Selling Sunset's reign.

Watch Owning Manhattan only on Netflix.