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My guest today is real estate broker, author, and reality television star Ryan Surhant.

Ryan is currently on Bravo's million dollar listing New York and its spinoff,

Sell It Like Surin.

Ryan was born in Houston, Texas and moved to New York City to launch his acting career,

eventually starring as Evan Walsh in 19 episodes of As the World Turns.

He runs his own New York real estate firm. He is charismatic. He is successful. He is engaging.

He is nice. This is Just Be with Ryan Sourhant. Let's get into it.

Oh my God. Thanks for coming and being here. Where are you now? And where do you live most of the time? I'm in Soho right now. I'm in the office. So you've stayed in New York. You're not leaving. You're a New Yorker. Yeah. I mean, the business is headquartered here. I mean, we have a lot in Florida now. We have stuff everywhere. We're in six states at the moment. And so I end up bouncing around a lot. But our daughter's in school here, it's a good spot. It's a good. Okay. Yeah. I grew up on a farm. So, like, for me, during COVID, a lot of people were like, got to get out of the city. And I'm like, dude, I spent my life out of the city. Like I feel like I just got here. I mean, even though I didn't. Like, I don't want to go back. Like, I don't need a lawn. Like a lawnmower and a weed whacker are like my fucking hell. So I love having a sidewalk. I'm like, I think it's great. And when everyone left in 2020, 21, 22, it was like the greatest thing of all time. I mean, there was sadness,

but it was still great. And what about your wife? She feels the same way? No, she's in Greece right now.

I think she would live in London in a heartbeat. She lived in Miami in a heartbeat.

I think she was born in New York and then bounced around and then they went back to Athens pretty quickly.

So she grew up in Athens.

But like for her, I think she just experiences New York in a very different way than I experience it.

It's like New York is my office.

You know, and for her, it's like, you know, New York's a little messy. Right. There's other places to live. I just bought an apartment back in New York. I sold the other place. Yeah. I sold it. I ended up selling it for a full ask, which was great. And especially in the pandemic. It was weird. Yeah. And then I just got lucky, I think.

And then I ended up buying another small place, almost like a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom hotel room, if that makes any sense, just for when I'm there. Yeah, easy. Yeah, exactly. But I haven't been back in a while, and this is on the Upper West Side, which is I've spent less time in the Upper West Side than I have in L.A. I don't know it. Yeah, it's fun. It's not. I mean,

it's Upper West Side, which is, I've spent less time in the Upper West side than I have in L.A.

I don't know it.

Yeah, it's fun.

It's not.

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