Sitting on a sofa post-workout session in his workplace on the Sundown Strip, L.A. actual property dealer Jason Oppenheim tells The Hollywood Reporter solely that his in style Netflix actuality present Promoting Sundown has been renewed for an eighth season and that manufacturing will start quickly on the most recent installments of the sequence.
“For me, every season will get increasingly enjoyable,” says Oppenheim, who had initially hoped that the present — a bingeable mixture of actual property, oft-combative private dynamics, over-the-top style and L.A. nightlife — would run for at the very least three seasons. “Once we had been doing season one, we had been like, ‘If we will get to season three, we had an actual present. Something above that will be icing.’ We’ve been working on icing for years now.”
From left, Mary Fitzgerald, Romain Bonnet, Emma Hernan, Bre Tiesi and Chrishell Stause within the ‘Promoting Sundown’ season 7 reunion particular
It’s a Friday night, simply 5 days forward of the premiere of Promoting Sundown’s season 7 reunion particular, which airs Wednesday on Netflix at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and is hosted by Queer Eye’s Tan France. The teaser video for the reunion contains what seems to be a confrontation between two of Oppenheim’s ex-girlfriends, actual property agent Chrishell Stause and mannequin Marie-Lou Nurk, with the latter, a shock visitor, asserting cryptically, “Chrishell was only a matter on digital camera.” At one other level, France asks Oppenheim, who is connected to a lie detector, “Are you continue to in love with Chrishell?”
It’s numerous consideration on Oppenheim, who says he has typically tried to remain above the fray on the present. “Jason all the time tries to faux like there’s no drama happening,” stated solid member Emma Hernan to THR earlier this 12 months.
However Oppenheim — not too long ago featured in Individuals’s Sexiest Males problem as “sexiest 46-year-old” — admits that he’s turn out to be extra relaxed about being on digital camera.
“I feel I simply put down my guard extra each season and I feel I’m much less anxious. I’m extra keen to share. My pores and skin will get thicker and I’m actually studying. I do know it received’t go without end, so I’m actually simply making an attempt to benefit from the course of,” he says.
From left: Amanza Smith, Chelsea Lazkani, Jason Oppenheim, Nicole Younger and Brett Oppenheim in the ‘Promoting Sundown’ season 7 reunion particular
“In case you would have requested me in season one, will I share a relationship on digital camera or go on a date or struggle with my brother or no matter it’s, I used to be so involved and cautious and now I’m simply not that means anymore in regards to the present. I’m simply extra keen to be open and share. It makes the present extra enjoyable the much less you concentrate on it. It makes me happier,” continues Oppenheim, who says that he’s not at the moment relationship anybody. “Fortunately single,” he underlines. “Who is aware of for a way lengthy, however I’m blissful proper now.”
Oppenheim has a lot to be blissful about. Promoting Sundown season 7 was ranked No. 2 on Netflix’s listing of prime English language reveals for the week of Nov. 6-12. Season 2 of the spinoff present Promoting the OC aired over the summer season on Netflix. And the unique Promoting Sundown has been nominated three years in a row for an Emmy for excellent unstructured actuality program.
Within the years since Promoting Sundown debuted in 2019, the Oppenheim Group has grown from 10 brokers to round 80 and has added actual property workplaces in Newport Seashore, San Diego and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “Greater than 20 p.c [of the growth] I must attribute to the present,” Oppenheim says.
TMZ reporters hardly ever lose sight of him. Simply earlier than his assembly with THR, a reporter for that outlet had come as much as him within the car parking zone of his workplace. “She wished to ask me if Bre [Tiesi] was nonetheless on the firm,” says Oppenheim, referring to the agent and solid member who stormed out of the opening get together for the Oppenheim Group’s new workplaces within the finale of season 7. (Tiesi advised THR she’s nonetheless unsure if she’ll stick with the brokerage.)
Not that he’s hurting for individuals seeking to work on the Oppenheim Group. He notes that the brokerage receives “half a dozen to a dozen emails a day” from people who’re “ followers of the present” and wish to be brokers there. “I imply, I don’t wish to rent a fan of the present. I wish to rent an actual property agent. However we get numerous inquiries. It’s flattering,” he says, including of the stream of unsolicited emails that are available in, “We get simply all types of issues. I get some marriage proposals infrequently — not something I’d settle for.”
‘Promoting Sundown’ solid
He additionally notes with pleasure {that a} TikTok video tour he not too long ago gave of the workplaces — wherein he reveals off the whiskey bar, vapor hearth, herringbone flooring, 11 Ravens pool desk, classic Paul Richardson studio lamp, furnishings by Rove Ideas and even a DJ set-up — has racked up 3.7 million views. Given the curiosity within the present and enormous battery of home windows going through Sundown Boulevard, indicators say, “Please keep three toes from the glass.” Says Oppenheim (who on the finish of the interview indicators autographs for a household who accosts him within the car parking zone behind the workplaces), “Followers are up right here all day lengthy.”
Through the sit-down interview, Oppenheim is at his most animated and garrulous when discussing the enterprise of promoting houses.
As involved as he’s with how the town of Los Angeles’ controversial mansion tax is slowing down the luxurious market (“I feel the tax income on this metropolis goes to go down the tubes,” he says), the dealer is much more apprehensive in regards to the current class-action lawsuit towards the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors (NAR) as properly a choose variety of nationwide brokerages accusing the true property business of colluding to inflate agent commissions. A jury dominated towards NAR and its rule {that a} dwelling vendor should pay a fee to the agent who represents the client. NAR is anticipated to attraction the choice.
“It’s throwing an enormous wrench in proudly owning an actual property brokerage,” says Oppenheim. “There are international locations which are structured much like what I feel the Division of Justice and these plaintiffs are on the lookout for. And in these international locations, Australia being a preeminent instance, lower than 10 p.c of consumers use an agent, and once they do, they solely pay one p.c. So primarily the client agent fee is gone, and that’s one thing that might occur on this nation.”
If consumers aren’t required to have brokers within the U.S. sooner or later, continues Oppenheim, “you’ll see 1,000,000 jobs misplaced. You’ll see 500,000 to 750,000 brokers depart the career and also you’ll see in all probability 1 / 4 million individuals who work at massive brokerages lose their jobs. This might be as unhealthy as seeing each main brokerage in the US going out of enterprise, as a result of only a few brokerages would be capable of survive dropping 40 to 50 p.c of their income. So it [will be] devastating to the economic system. It’s devastating to the true property career. And I feel it does a big hurt to consumers inasmuch as in the event that they’re not represented on the acquisition of possibly their most vital monetary asset … from a client safety perspective, I don’t see how that protects the patron, the client.”
He’s hopeful although that at the moment excessive rates of interest, which have additionally slowed the luxurious market, will come down subsequent 12 months. “I feel [they] will come down subsequent 12 months. I’d wish to see rates of interest within the fives on a 30 [year mortgage],” says Oppenheim, including that he doesn’t wish to see charges drop far more than that. “I don’t assume they need to. I hope they don’t come again right down to the place they had been. These had been too low, artificially low.”
And Oppenheim is properly conscious that the Promoting Sundown phenomenon received’t go on without end. “In a couple of years,” he says, “I’ll be again to simply being an actual property agent once more.”
