Watch out, Bravo — there is a new reality-TV collection bringing some “Real Housewives” stars over to Netflix. “Buying Beverly Hills,” the streamer’s latest addition to its real-estate repertoire, is a docusoap that follows property boss Mauricio Umansky, the husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards.
“This was one thing completely out of my consolation zone, so she was that grounding help.”
Mauricio and his household have spent the final 12 years on digicam for his or her Bravo staple. But now, the mogul’s new present will spotlight his skilled life because the founder and CEO of worldwide luxurious brokerage The Agency. It may also highlight an bold group of brokers that features his and Richards’s daughter Alexia Umansky and his stepdaughter, Farrah Brittany.
Though Mauricio and his daughters aren’t any strangers to the small display, he and Alexia inform POPSUGAR that Richards was a useful help system whereas filming “Buying Beverly Hills.” “Alexia had a variety of drama. She had a variety of ups and downs,” Mauricio shares. “You’re going to witness them, and watch them, [but] it is actually enjoyable. I feel Kyle undoubtedly helped her by that course of as a [therapist].”
To put together for her Netflix debut, Alexia says she requested her mother a lot of questions and even acquired some vogue ideas, too. “First of all, my mother styled me each day, mainly,” she says. “So you are going to see a variety of duplicate outfits of hers and mine on ‘Housewives’ and ‘Buying Beverly Hills.'” And secondly, Alexia says, she discovered that filming is a “lot of exhausting work,” and her mother is a veteran. “So after I wanted to be cool, calm, and picked up, I went to my mother and she or he all the time made me really feel higher,” she says. “This was one thing completely out of my consolation zone, so she was that grounding help. She’s had a lot expertise [and] so many ideas all through the entire total factor.”
“It was undoubtedly emotional for me in a variety of methods, however I’ve turn into, I want to assume, a a lot better agent now due to it.”
For viewers interested in how Mauricio and his daughters will seem on “Buying Beverly Hills” in distinction with “Real Housewives,” the real-estate tycoon guarantees that we’ll see him step exterior of his “supportive husband” function. “Watching me as a boss and a father, after which as a boss father on ‘Buying Beverly Hills,’ it’s very completely different dynamics,” he says. “The dynamic between me and Alexia and my daughter Farrah could be very attention-grabbing and actual. The indisputable fact that we have already been on tv and in entrance of a digicam for 12 years has in all probability made us a little bit bit extra snug, [but] you are going to see a totally completely different dynamic and a few nice feelings.”
The present additionally follows Alexia by her personal real-estate journey, a lot of which is spent proving herself at her father’s firm. Although she has a number of hiccups — and admits it was nerve-racking to have them occur on digicam — Alexia says her first season on the present was a “very humbling expertise.”
“A humongous studying expertise for me,” she provides. “There had been a variety of moments the place we did this [work], all these brokers as a staff, and so we needed to focus on a variety of the issues I did proper and incorrect as a staff [as well], nearly like a magnifying glass . . . It was undoubtedly emotional for me in a variety of methods, however I’ve turn into, I want to assume, a a lot better agent now due to it.”
It stays to be seen whether or not “Buying Beverly Hills” will turn into Netflix’s subsequent huge real-estate franchise (particularly because it’s up towards “Selling Sunset“), however the present’s first season guarantees superb structure, celeb appearances, a sprint of drama, and even a “shock.”
“Buying Beverly Hills” begins streaming on Netflix on Nov. 4.