Are theSelling the CityStars Actual Real Estate Agents? All About the 'Cutthroat' New York Cast (and the Million-Dollar Deals They've Done!)

Mar. 15, 2025

Selling The City S1.Photo:Jake Rosenberg/Netflix

Jake Rosenberg/Netflix

TheSelling the Citycast members have nothing to hide when it comes to the legitimacy of their craft.

While theSelling Sunsetspinoff, which debuted on Netflix on Jan. 3, sees plenty of drama, Eleonora Srugo, Abigail Godfrey, Gisselle Meneses Nunez, Jade Chan, Jordyn Taylor Braff, Justin Tuinstra, Taylor Middleton Scavo and Steve Gold are all licensed professionals when it comes to real estate. The docusoap followsSrugo’s “no-nonsense, kicka–” agents as they pave their way in the “cutthroat world” of New York City luxury real estate, per Netflix.

Sans for Gold, who works as an associate broker for The Corcoran Group, the cast works for Douglas Elliman. The brokerage boasts well-known agents such asMillion Dollar Listing’sFredrik Eklund,Josh Altman,Tracy Tutor, Kirsten Jordan, and previously,Josh Flagg, who shadedSelling Sunset’s agents in July 2024, insinuating onWatch What Happens Livethat their careersweren’t legitimate. “I only like to watch licensed real estate brokers. How ‘bout them apples?” he said at the time.

Srugo, who leads a team of at least nine, including Godfrey, Braff, Meneses Nunez and Middleton Scavo, spoke toTudumabout the differences between her New York-based team and the California-based ones fromSelling SunsetandSelling the OC.

“I have a lot of respect for those guys and what they’ve built,” she said of The Oppenheim Group. “But this is a little different. We’re a little grittier, and a woman is leading the team. The city also takes everything to another level. There’s a really high barrier to entry in this market, and it makes it extraordinarily competitive.”

According to the New York City license management system, the entire cast ofSelling the Cityhas active real estate licenses as salespeople, or, in Gold’s case, as an assistant broker.

From their current real estate license statuses to their side businesses, here’s everything to know about the professional lives of theSelling the Citycast.

Are theSelling the Citycast members licensed real estate agents?

Selling The City S1.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

All of the main cast members ofSelling the Cityare real agents who have obtained their real estate licenses. What’s more, they’ve kept them up to date with the state of New York.

Team leader Eleonora Srugo’s salesperson license is good through March 2026 per the official eAccessNY license management system. While it’s unclear when she received her license, she’s been with Douglas Elliman for more than 15 years, according to herLinkedIn. In 2023, she had the company’stop sale of the yearat more than $75 million and was ranked the top individual real estate agent.

Jordyn Taylor Braff, who is licensed through November 2025, is a bi-coastal member of Srugo’s team, doing business in both New York City and Los Angeles.

According to herLinkedIn page, Taylor Middleton Scavo, who is licensed as Katherine Middleton through March 2026, has been working in real estate since at least 2013. Prior to joining Srugo’s team, Middleton Scavo was a member of Serhant, theRyan Serhant-owned agency featured onOwning Manhattan. She hassales upward of $500 millionand had a recent deal for $1.2 million in December 2024, perStreetEasy.

Sales agent Abigail Godfrey has an active real estate license that won’t expire until November 2026 and closed a $1.7 million dollar deal on a NoMad Manhattan condo in June 2023.

Per herLinkedIn, Meneses Nunez has been working in real estate since 2021 and joined the Douglas Elliman brokerage in 2022. She is licensed through February 2026.

A top 3 percent performer at Douglas Elliman, Chan got her start on the administrative side in 2013, working her way up to become the brokerage’s director of sales. A former public relations specialist, she has an active real estate license, which is good through April 2026. According to hercompany profile, she manages a portfolio of more than $2 billion. In November 2024, she sold a $22 million condo in Midtown Manhattan.

According to LinkedIn, Justin Tuinstra has been at the brokerage for nearly 20 years. Heearned his license(active through May 2026) and joined the team in 2008. He now oversees his own team of 10 and has sold more than $500 million in sales during his time at Douglas Elliman. In December 2024, he sold a $3.25 million condo in Morningside Heights.

Finally, there’sMillion Dollar Listingstar and former vice president at Douglas EllimanSteve Gold, who now works for the Barbara Corcoran-founded real estate brokerage The Corcoran Group. Licensed as anactive associate brokerunder the name Steven W. Gold through July 2026, thedad of two’s sales have exceeded $3 billion, according to hisCorcoran profile, and he sold a $10 million-plus condo in December 2024 perStreetEasy.

What other businesses do theSelling the Citycast members have?

Like theSelling Sunsetagents, several of theSelling the Citystars are involved in other endeavors beyond real estate.

Srugo is involved in mentoring, having founded her high school’s own program, the Stuyvesant High School mentoring program, at 26. “It’s something that’s deeply important to me because it represents some of the lowest income students in the city,” she told Tudum.

Godfrey is also involved in philanthropy. She and he husband, Pat Godfrey, co-run the Elite V Football Showcase withAbout U Outreach, which offers college recruitment opportunities to under-represented high school athletes in New York.

Middleton Scavo, meanwhile, serves as a national advisory board member for Harpeth Hall School, from which she graduated, and the benefit committee forThe Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation.

source: people.com