The family business. Kyle Richards‘ husband, Mauricio UmanskyShe and her daughters will be the stars of a new reality series on Netflix.
The docusoap is titled Beverly Hills BuyingUmansky, 51, will be following the other realtors at The Agency, his real estate brokerage. Farrah Brittany — whom Richards, 53, shares with ex-husband Guraish Aldjufrie — and Alexia Umansky will also take part in the series, as the trio navigate the “high stakes world of luxury real estate,” per Netflix. Beverly Hills BuyingThe family will also have several other real estate agents working alongside them as they search for the perfect home.
“We are thrilled to share that The Agency is arriving on @netflix this fall in Buying Beverly Hills, a new real estate occu-soap following the agents and clients within Mauricio Umansky’s The Agency in Beverly Hills, California,” the brokerage confirmed via their official Instagram account on Thursday, June 23. “Mauricio, his daughters Farrah and Alexia, and the firm’s talented group of agents highlight the high-stakes world of luxury real estate in Los Angeles. We said No Ass–les, but we never said No Drama.”
Alexia, 26, teased that the announcement was made on her Instagram Story shortly before the news broke about the show. “Big day today,” she wrote, sharing a selfie with her father in the car. Both Alexia and Farrah, 33, have worked with The Agency for several years now, with the elder sister even describing herself as a “founding member/agent” at the brokerage in her Instagram bio.
A University of Southern California alum, Mauricio and her dad are both responsible for her passion for real estate. Aldjufrie is a property developer in Indonesia. “He’s very, very close with my mom and Mauricio, like they’re great, great, great friends,” told Bravo in March 2016. “I always say I have two dads; they both raised me. They get along amazing. They’ve done [real estate] deals together.”
She continued: “My dad refers clients to Mauricio all the time. We all get together, he comes to our house for Christmas, Thanksgiving, it’s all good. It funny ’cause I’m an only child at one house [with my dad]Then I have this large family in this other house [with my mom and three younger sisters], so it’s kind of the best of both worlds. There’s no real separation or divide.”
Richards also showed her support for Mauricio’s new project on Thursday, sharing screenshots of the announcement on her Instagram Story, along with he caption “here we go …”
While she’s enthusiastic about Beverly Hills Buying, the former child actress has previously stated that she didn’t want her daughters to follow in her reality TV footsteps. “[I]We strongly recommend against it [reality TV],” Richards told Australia’s TV WeekIn June 2020. “I wouldn’t let them. Two of my girls are involved in real estate. They’re businesswomen, and I like that they’re on that path.”
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