“Ryan Serhant isn’t just one of reality TV’s most recognizable brokers — he’s also shaping the conversation around where the housing market is headed next. Fresh off new episodes of Owning Manhattan and a rapidly expanding brokerage, the SERHANT. founder is now making headlines for his bold 2026 prediction: that a rise in divorces could”, — write: hollywoodlife.com
Ryan Serhant isn’t just one of reality TV’s most recognizable brokers — he’s also shaping the conversation around where the housing market is headed next. Fresh off new episodes of Owning Manhattan and a rapidly expanding brokerage, the SERHANT. founder is now making headlines for his bold 2026 prediction: that a rise in divorces could spark a major wave of home sales.
As his influence grows across both real estate and media, fans are also curious about his fortune, career, and personal life. Learn more below.
Who Is Ryan Serhant? 
Owning Manhattan. Ryan Serhant in Owning Manhattan. Cr. Winnie Au/Netflix © 2024 Serhant is a luxury-real-estate broker, media entrepreneur, and reality-TV star. He’s best known as the face of Owning Manhattan on Netflix and previously Million Dollar Listing: New York. He also runs his own firm — SERHANT. — that blends real-estate brokerage with media, marketing, and tech services.
How Did Ryan Serhant Get Rich? Serhant’s wealth comes from a mix of high-end real-estate commissions, smart business diversification, media ventures, and personal branding. Early in his career at Nest Seekers he became one of New York’s top brokers. Later, he founded SERHANT., which now spans brokerage, content production, new development deals, and more — expanding his revenue beyond traditional sales.
In an interview with Forbes, Serhant said, “[T]hings really, really made a change was the early, early, early days of YouTube and the ability to create property tours and put them on YouTube. I could find my audience within 24 hours instead of waiting a year for the television show [to air].”
He’s also leveraged his reality-TV presence to increase visibility and draw in clients, and his firm reportedly reached over $1 billion in closed and in-contract sales by early 2025.
Owning Manhattan. Ryan Serhant in episode 103 of Owning Manhattan. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix/© 2024 Netflix, Inc. He added, “My life changed when Million Dollar Listing came out. Then it changed again last June when the [new] show came out. I mean, it broke our website. It was complete insanity. That first week, we were adding 100,000 followers a day [to social media]—organically from people watching the show.”
What Is Ryan Serhant’s Net Worth? Serhant’s net worth is estimated at $40 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Is Ryan Serhant Married? Yes — Serhant is married to Emilia Bechrakis. They wed in 2016 and share a daughter. While there have been rumors in 2025 about a possible split, Ryan publicly denied them, stating the couple remains “very happily married.”