In the city that never sleeps, these women are working day and night to seal multimillion-dollar Manhattan real-estate deals.
“I would say I work 85 to 90 hours a week. I start working from around 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and then again around 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.,” Jade Shenker of the Soho real estate company Serhant told The Post.
“I have lots of international clients in different time zones and I work best at night when my phone isn’t blowing up.”
Her colleague, new mom Chloe Tucker Caine, agreed that their work as leading Big Apple realtors at Serhant — the most-followed brokerage in the world with over 7 million followers across social media — is a 24/7 gig.
“How many hours are there in a week? Because that’s how many hours I work. I was literally answering calls from the delivery room,” she said.
The dynamic duo is featured in Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan,” which premiered Friday.
The series follows Ryan Serhant of “Million Dollar Listing” — who started his over $1 billion dollar namesake company in 2020 — and his tireless agents as they land listings like the $250 million-dollar penthouse in Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world.
Los Angeles native Caine, 33, started at Serhant in 2020, and has brought in more than $500 million worth of listings and made some hefty commissions.
“You can sell one apartment and make hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ve never hit the million mark yet where you’re making over a million off of one commission, but I really would love that to happen,” she said.
Shenker, 28, who oversees the commercial division at Serhant with almost a quarter of a billion dollars in active listings, has done $30 million in commercial transactions since she started there in 2021.
The Upper East Side native, who has more than 40,000 followers on TikTok, is aiming even higher.
“I have a $1 billion-dollar sale on my vision board. The commission for that is somewhere between $5 to $10 million,” she explained.
Caine, who has more than 147,000 TikTok followers, has worked with A Listers like Rihanna, Drake, Aaron Judge, Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar.
When showing homes to celebrity clients, she goes to great lengths to ensure their privacy requests.
“It’ll be like, ‘This person can’t be shot coming out of this building, can’t be seen going into the building.’ So I’ll be, like, setting up a listing appointment at midnight,” she said.
Many notable names don’t even come to view the properties.
“A lot of times it’s their business manager or money manager, because a lot of times they’re not only looking for a place to enjoy, but also for a great investment,” she said.
Room for their live-in assistants, nannies, personal chefs and even dog walkers are often on a celebrity’s wish list.
“The bedroom layout is incredibly important, because if it’s a multi-level apartment, they want staff to be on one level and then them to have another one,” she explained.
Nowadays, the deep-pocketed clients are often YouTubers and influencers in their 20s and 30s, Caine and Shenker said.
“Ones that are really killing it, we’re looking at $10 million, $15 million apartments. It’s really insane to see what these influencers are now able to afford,” Caine said.
Caine, a former Broadway actress who was in “Mamma Mia!,” recalled her foray into real estate, which happened while she was bartending in between acting gigs and put her apartment on Airbnb to live with the man she was dating.
“And I was like, ‘Damn, this is so much better than having to work in a bar.’ And that guy I was dating was like, ‘You’re really good at this. You should get your real estate license.’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely not. Real estate is for losers,’” she remembered.
Shenker, who was born into real estate royalty as her great-grandfather, grandfather and father all invested in NYC property, is on a mission to “make commercial real estate sexy.”
“When people think of a commercial real estate agent, they think of a male, typically of European or white descent, who’s probably in their 50s. They do the bare minimum, there’s barely any photos, there’s no video,” said Shenker, who spent up to $10,000 monthly on work outfits while filming the series.
“I can turn a building and tell a story to it … whether it’s making a music video or throwing a party.”
Shenker, whose face is on Serhant billboards throughout the city, gets text messages inquiring about her listings that include pickup lines like, “Your picture stopped me in my tracks.”
“It’s always a bit awkward when I get hit on by clients,” she said.
“But I would never mix business and personal. I’ve worked way too hard.”
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