Ryan Serhant

Ryan Serhant Ryan Serhant is an influencer

Founder & CEO at SERHANT. | 3X Bestselling Author | Investor in Major League Pickleball, RLTY Capital, Blank Street, and more

New York, New York, United States
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Ryan Serhant is one of the most successful and well-known real estate brokers in the world. He is the founder and CEO of SERHANT., a multidimensional real estate brokerage that sits at the intersection of media, entertainment, education, and technology. He is also an innovator, entrepreneur, producer, best-selling author, podcast host, public speaker, educator, content creator, Executive Producer of Netflix's Owning Manhattan, star of multiple Bravo TV shows, including the two-time Emmy-nominated Million Dollar Listing New York.

Ryan has closed nearly $10B in sales and represented clients in record-breaking deals in New York and South Florida. Under Ryan’s leadership, SERHANT. has become one of the fastest-growing real estate firms in the United States, with agents across 8 states and an audience of over 6 million across social platforms. The company is also the home of LISTED, a dedicated YouTube network for entertaining lifestyle and real estate shows featuring the firm’s diverse up-and-coming real estate agents.

Ryan actively supports City Harvest, Feeding America, the Ali Forney Center, the NYC Sanitation Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and Project Sunshine.

Ryan currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Emilia, and their daughter, Zena.

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Experience

  • SERHANT. Graphic

    Founder & CEO

    SERHANT.

    - Present 5 years

    Greater New York City Area

    The first real estate company launched and designed for the marketplace of tomorrow, at the intersection of brokerage, education, media and technology.

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    Podcast Host

    Business of Influence

    - Present 2 years 8 months

    New York, New York, United States

    I host a podcast where I dive deep into the creator economy, talking with some of the world's biggest influencers!

    Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all other podcasting platforms.

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    Contributor

    Forbes

    - Present 6 years 8 months

    New York, New York, United States

    I write about real estate, sales advice, and leveraging social media.

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    Author

    Hachette Book Group

    - Present 7 years

    New York, New York, United States

    I am the author of three best-selling books:

    • Sell It Like Serhant, published in 2018
    • Big Money Energy, published in 2021
    • Brand It Like Serhant, published in 2024

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    Investor

    RLTY Capital

    - Present 4 years 7 months

    New York, New York, United States

  • Mad Drops Pickleball Club Graphic

    Investor

    Mad Drops Pickleball Club

    - Present 3 years 2 months

    Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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    Investor

    Blank Street

    - Present 2 years 6 months

    New York, New York, United States

    I featured Blank Street in my "Startup Story Time" series on social media in December 2022. Their founders saw it, reached out, and invited me to join the cap table.

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    Star of Million Dollar Listing New York, Bravo TV

    NBCUniversal

    - 9 years 5 months

    Greater New York City Area

    Million Dollar Listing New York, a spinoff of Million Dollar Listing LA, debuted in 2012 and was nominated in 2014 and 2015 for an Emmy for outstanding unstructured reality program.

    I decided to leave Million Dollar Listing New York in 2021, shortly after launching my brokerage, SERHANT.

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    Associate Broker

    Nest Seekers International

    - 11 years 10 months

    New York, New York

    #1 Sales Team in New York as ranked by the Wall Street Journal
    #3 Sales Team in the Nation as ranked by the Wall Street Journal

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    Exhibitor

    National Association of REALTORS®

    - less than a year

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    Actor

    CBS News

    - 1 year

Education

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    Hamilton College

    BA English Literature, Theatre

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    Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Graduated with Honors

    Written thesis and performance were done in conjunction with the English and Theatre departments for the dramatic translation of "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg.

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    Pingree School

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Publications

  • Sell It Like Serhant

    Hachette Books

    A lively and practical guide to sell anything and up your business game from one of the top realtors in the world and costar of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing: New York and Sell It Like Serhant.

    Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on the verge of economic collapse. Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of the top realtors in the world and an authority on the art of selling. Whether you are selling a…

    A lively and practical guide to sell anything and up your business game from one of the top realtors in the world and costar of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing: New York and Sell It Like Serhant.

    Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on the verge of economic collapse. Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of the top realtors in the world and an authority on the art of selling. Whether you are selling a brownstone or a hot tub, golf balls or life insurance, Serhant shares the secrets behind how to close more deals than anyone else, expand your business, and keep clients coming back to you.

    Sell It Like Serhant is a smart, at times hilarious, and always essential playbook to build confidence, generate results, and sell just about anything. You'll find tips on:
    The Seven Stages of Selling
    Getting FKD: How to Be a Time Manager, Not a Time Stealer.
    Negotiating Like A BOSS
    "The One Who...": Everyone Needs a Hook
    Pulling the Indecisive Client Forward

    REVIEWS:

    "Selling-your product, your service, even yourself-has changed more in the past 10 years than in the previous 100. That's why you need this book. Drawing on his incredible success selling real estate in one of the world's most pressure-cooker markets, Ryan Serhant offers smart, practical, modern guidance for getting, keeping, and serving customers and clients. Whatever you do for a living, you'll do it better if you learn to sell like Serhant."
    ―Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When and To Sell is Human

    "Ryan Serhant is the authority on all things selling. If you want to sell more than anyone else, read this now."
    ―Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times bestselling author of Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence – and How You Can, Too

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Courses

  • Sell It Like Serhant: The Course

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