Ryan Serhant Breaks Down in Tears as He Cracks Under ‘Pressure’ in Dramatic ‘Owning Manhattan’ Season 2 Trailer

Real estate mogul Ryan Serhant is seen breaking down in tears while opening up about the toll his high-powered career is taking on him in the new trailer for Season 2 of his popular Netflix show "Owning Manhattan."

Serhant, 41, premiered his latest reality TV turn in June 2024, when viewers were introduced to some of the top-performing agents at the New York offices of his eponymous company, SERHANT., including the likes of Chloe Tucker Caine and Tricia Lee.

The series proved to be a smash-hit success among viewers, prompting Netflix to renew "Owning Manhattan" for another season just weeks after it debuted.

However, it seems the "pressure" of running a luxury real estate agency, combined with wrangling a team of agents and starring in his own reality series has become too much for Serhant to bear.

"I just feel like there is so much pressure sometimes, I just can't take it," Serhant says as he wipes tears from his eyes at one point.

The real estate tycoon let his emotions get the better of him multiple times throughout the trailer, in which he is seen tearing up numerous times before even breaking what looks like some glass in an apparent outburst of emotion.

Having previously promised Netflix fans "all out real estate warfare" in the new episodes of his show, the trailer makes clear that the real estate mogul is delivering on his promise, with agents seen showcasing an array of extraordinary homes to their ultrawealthy clients—all the while doing their best to impress the Serhant boss.

As the trailer goes on, so does the drama, with agents seen pushed to the brink to sell their listings and impress Serhant.

Some agents let the intense atmosphere get to them as the trailer teased that two of the pros might even get into a physical altercation.

Season 2 of the hit series will be available on Netflix beginning Dec. 5

After the first season aired, Serhant spoke to Realtor.com® about what he wanted to do differently after the success of the debut episodes.

"As a CEO, I care very much about our brand and our business; but I also know to make a great television show, I just have to work hard and be vulnerable. Great TV is vulnerable TV," he said.

"I’m excited to see how the cast’s lives have changed and see some of the new faces."

He also revealed how much his business has changed since he started filming the first episodes of the show, noting that the number of agents working for his company has more than doubled since "Owning Manhattan" Season 1 first aired.

"In the first episode of Season 1, I think I say, 'My name is Ryan Serhant. I lead a real estate brokerage. We have about 300 agents.' Today we have about 700. There’s a lot of faces and different personalities now and different tensions, and we’ve grown a lot, and so I think it’ll be fun," he shared.

"But, I’m also focused on making sure we don’t give the audience exactly what they expect. I think 'Owning Manhattan' ended up working so well because it was a surprise to people. And I think Season 2 will probably be even more surprising but in different ways," he said.

Although the series has driven up the drama within the group, Serhant admitted that it has done wonders for the business.

"I mean, the penthouse at The Jardim that we rented while we were filming then sold for $15 million afterward.

"The Huron, the new development in Greenpoint that we filmed where we had the buyer who bought one apartment but then asked to do four apartments at the building—we saw traffic spike by over 1,000% to that website, and we were booked fully with appointments to show that building into, like, middle of July.

"Traffic to our website increased by a couple hundred percent. We now get somewhere between 200 and 300 resumes a day from real estate agents who are asking to work here and owners of independent brokerages who would like to open up SERHANT. offices in their territories. I mean, I could go on and on and on," he said at the time.