Ryan Serhant

Ryan Matthew Serhant was born in Houston, Texas, United States.⁠[1][2]

He grew up in Topsfield, Massachusetts, attending Proctor Elementary School, Masconomet for junior high and Pingree School.⁠[2]

He studied English literature and theatre at Hamilton College, graduating in 2006. The college confirms both fields, and his professional profile records attendance from 2002 to 2006.⁠[3][4]

Before entering real estate, he played Evan Walsh IV on the soap opera As the World Turns, worked as a hand model and appeared in advertisements.⁠[5]

He joined Nest Seekers International and began working in real estate brokerage. He later recalled an early transaction involving a home renting for $700 per month.⁠[5]

Million Dollar Listing New York premiered.⁠[6]

A subsequent Hamilton College report stated that his team had more than fifteen agents and recorded $372 million in sales that year. This represented team transaction volume rather than his personal income.⁠[3]

He appeared in Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young alongside Ben Stiller and other cast members. His college described it as his feature-film debut.⁠[3]

Sell It Like Serhant premiered on Bravo. He coached salespeople on improving their performance, with the opening episode focusing on a winery employee.⁠[7]

His first sales book, Sell It Like Serhant, was published, covering prospecting, negotiation, confidence and time management.⁠[8]

He launched the Sell It Like Serhant online course, extending his sales training into digital education. The platform later adopted the SellIt brand.⁠[9][10]

During the pandemic, he founded SERHANT., combining real estate brokerage with content production, marketing and training, and became its founder and chief executive.⁠[10]

Big Money Energy was published, addressing confidence, goals and professional performance. The publisher’s 2022 date applies to the later paperback edition.⁠[11]

Property buyers alleged misleading statements and undisclosed dual agency by him and Nest Seekers in a Manhattan investment transaction. The Southern District of New York granted the defendants’ dismissal motions and closed the case, finding the property-value statements insufficient to support actionable fraud. The allegations were not findings of wrongdoing.⁠[12]

The American Cancer Society named him national ambassador for Real Men Wear Pink, using his social platforms to support breast-cancer screening awareness and fundraising.⁠[13]

Brand It Like Serhant was published, addressing personal and business branding, audience identification and communication.⁠[14]

The official School of Hard Knocks podcast released an approximately nineteen-minute interview covering his entry into real estate, business experience and participation in Million Dollar Listing New York. The industry ranking in the episode title is the program’s characterization.⁠[15]

Netflix released the eight-episode first season of Owning Manhattan, following Serhant and his brokerage’s agents in New York’s luxury real estate market.⁠[16]

The company introduced S.MPLE, an AI-assisted work platform intended to help agents with comparative market analyses, listing presentations and marketing plans.⁠[17]

SERHANT. Technologies announced a $45 million first equity round led by Camber Creek with participation from Left Lane Capital, supporting technology development and business expansion. The financing was raised by the company.⁠[18]

Netflix released all eight episodes of the second season, continuing its coverage of the firm’s expansion, property transactions and team management.⁠[19]

TCS Black Label and The Condo Shop sued Ryan Serhant, associated businesses and agents over the movement of personnel, clients and business information. Pennsylvania’s Superior Court affirmed the October 29, 2024 summary judgment for the defendants, upholding dismissal of all seven claims.⁠[20]

Homi sued Serhant Real Estate, alleging that S.MPLE used its code; the defendant company asserted contractual ownership. The court stayed the lawsuit pending arbitration with former president Josh Team but declined to compel Homi to arbitrate. This was not an infringement ruling, and Ryan Serhant was not a named defendant.⁠[21][22]

In a commission dispute brought by Serhant LLC, New York’s appellate court reversed the company’s judgment on its contractual-interference claim against Douglas Elliman and Josh Rubin and granted their request for dismissal. It found the brokerage agreement’s automatic-renewal clause invalid. The ruling concerned the company’s claim.⁠[23]

The firm announced entry into the Denver metropolitan market with eleven founding agents. Its announcement reported more than two thousand agents and two hundred full-time team members across the business.⁠[24]

The company announced expansion into metropolitan Chicago and the North Shore, following its entries into Massachusetts, Texas, California and Colorado earlier that year.⁠[25]

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Emilia and their daughter Zena.⁠[10]

His personal website and verified YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel link to one another. His X account is https://x.com/RyanSerhant (opens in a new window) and his YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/@RyanSerhant (opens in a new window). The company operates a separate SERHANT. branded channel.⁠[26][27]