Luxe Listings Sydney

My Review - Luxe Listing Sydney- Prime series My Rating 8/10 Want to see how the other half lives ? We've just finished watching this new six part series and I'm amazed how enjoyable it turned out to be.

At first the thought of sitting through six episodes of insanely expensive Eastern Suburbs real estate practically nothing under $10 million plus the self entitled Gen Z Real Estate power brokers would be excruciatingly boring.

However It turned out an interesting insight into a world I've never had or really expected to have any interest in.

The unscripted series revolves around three real estate agents, D'Leanne Lewis, Simon Cohen, and Gavin Rubinstein. D'Leanne has been working in the industry for nearly three decades and has proven her mettle. The single mother of two is considered one of the best professionals in the field and is a Principal at Laing+Simmons Double Bay. Simon Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Cohen Handler, a prominent property buyer's agency in Australia.

It's such a well produced series and the three estate agents live and work a life of luxury but understand the challenges of getting someone to buy a house in the tens of millions.

Each episode sees the highly competitive estate agents challenging themselves and each other to be the best in the business.

It's not all business you get a glimpse into the personal lives ,the rich at play some Jewish humour ,feasting and fashion and some very bizarre cashed up clients .

Unlike Selling Sunset, these Real Estate Agents actually SELL homes more than once a season. Also unlike Selling Sunset, these are smart, well spoken Agents. I love watching because I've never been to Australia, and their architecture is so vastly different. There is no stupid petty drama on this show. In fact, DLeanne, who is one of the top female Real Estate Agents, actually wants other female agents to do well. Some other review called these agents vapid. Furthest thing from the truth., Gavin Rubenstein is the best in his business because he totally understands the business. He knows exactly how much a property should sell for, how to get the right buyers, and how to close a deal, without being shady. That does NOT happen if he were stupid.

I see what they are trying to replicate here with the success of Selling Sunset. I actually don't mind the series there are a few good characters such as Simon and his team and D'Leanne and then a few ego driven characters that make the average person cringe. Light easy viewing that showcase Sydney's mansions for those who would never otherwise have the pleasure.

An Australian version of "Million Dollar Listing" or "Selling Sunset" was an excellent idea. "Luxe Listings Sydney" has potential but needs a LOT of work for Season 2.

The Pros: Great cinematography, filming. Sydney looks amazing. Great work there! The star of the show is that - whoever is filming it.

The idea is great.

The Cons: (there's a bit here)

Whoever is doing the soundtrack needs to be fired. This isn't a club for 18 year old. The music is unbearable, inappropriate at times and takes away from the narrative. Never has a soundtrack been so awful for a TV show.

The show is about real-estate. Unfortunately most of the time it's not really focused on that.

The casting was off... really off..not a single person on season 1 should come back next year and should never be in front of a camera again. Whoever is prepping them too needs to reconsider their job. Vapid. Hollow. Fake.. not a single person on this show works. The beauty of the American shows was the casting has been genius. They have strong personalities, interesting lives and when doing the real estate they inject their personality into it. Josh Flagg, Ryan Serhant, they are people you want to spend time with. These three and their cohorts and weird clients? Not at all.

Gavin Rubinstein is awful reality TV. He has absolutely no personality. Smug would be the best way to describe him. There isn't a fraction of human personality from him. Watching him is painful. Watching him with his chauvinistic team - even more painful. De'Leanne Lewis isn't as bad but she needs to inject some warmth and personality in her. She struts around like she's Cruella De Ville - cold as ice. Simon Cohen is the least awful - he does have some interest but when he talks to the camera it's very stagey and unauthentic. He also seems bored half the time. Gavin's whole real estate firm feels really dated and tacky - we're in 2021 - this feels like a fraternity of macho white guys. The sexism-undertones from the cast are just really inappropriate.

It's a great concept and the idea is there - would love to see the producers get rid of the casting people and revamp everyone on the show for season 2. Focus on interesting not vapid people. And whoever hired the 18 year old aspiring DJ to do the soundtrack - bye bye.

I started watching because I was interested to see the properties, their staging, and challenges/strategies for selling them. Instead, I had to wade through endless egotistical and often sexist crap to see brief glimpses of properties, but zero insight.

The men in this show are so full of themselves that it was nauseating to watch. I felt bad for their protégés while simultaneously lamenting that the young, ambitious people on the show are learning from obnoxious mentors and will themselves, likely be the same in the future.

There may be stunning properties on this show, but ultimately Luxe Listings displays the worst of Sydney.