{"id":66750,"date":"2025-12-10T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66750\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:37:08","slug":"owning-manhattan-star-jessica-markwoski-opens-up-about-one-of-her-strangest-deals-yet-i-never-had-to-deal-with-a-negotiation-over-mattresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/66750\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Owning Manhattan\u2019 Star Jessica Markwoski Opens Up About One Of Her Strangest Deals Yet: \u201cI Never Had To Deal With A Negotiation Over Mattresses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owning Manhattan<\/a> Season 2 was filled with jaw-dropping real estate deals, from the $60 million sale of 150 Charles, to Chloe Tucker Caine<\/a>\u2018s brilliant musical that sold a listing for $5 million. But Jessica Markowski<\/a>\u2018s listing for a $7 million one-bedroom apartment in Tribeca certainly took the cake as one of the most interesting negotiations featured on this season of the hit Netflix show.<\/p>\n

As seen in the Season 2 premiere, Markowski was working to sell a one-bedroom apartment on Washington St. for $7 million. Not only was she friends with the seller\u2014serial entrepreneur Alfonso Cobo, who sold his company, Unfold, to Squarespace for a whopping $50 million\u2014but she was also representing a buyer who put in an offer at $6.9 million. With the seller\u2019s counter at full asking price, they ultimately came to an unlikely compromise: the apartment could go for $6.925 million and the buyer would take the furniture (sans the art and the mattress, which the seller wanted to keep \u201cout of spite\u201d). Thankfully, the buyer was already invested in a mattress company, as one typically is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never had to deal with a negotiation over mattresses,\u201d Markowski told DECIDER when she stopped by our studio ahead of Season 2 dropping on Netflix. \u201cBut, you know, whatever got us to the finish line, I\u2019ll take it. But yeah, it was fun. It was a fun moment, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the realtor\u2014who works under the Bogard New York Team, a top-producing team at Ryan Serhant\u2019s eponymous brokerage\u2014it\u2019s not unusual for clients to nit-pick \u201cminor things\u201d in a sale of that caliber. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of the job, right?\u201d Markowski said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the mattress or the art piece or the vase or the plant, it comes to little minor things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markowski, for her part, has largely been able to stay out of the drama this season. After joining ex-SERHANT agent\/Season 1 villain Jonathan N\u00f8rmolle in trashing an up-and-coming realtor\u2014Savannah Gowarty\u2014in a podcast filmed in Season 1, Markowski has been keeping her \u201ceyes on the prize\u201d when it comes to her career, meaning she won\u2019t be hopping on a podcast to drag her fellow co-stars again anytime soon. <\/p>\n

\"Jessica Photo: Brian Zak \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

With that ordeal taking up a good chunk of Season 1\u2019s drama, no one expected Gowarty\u2014who ultimately left SERHANT after they wrapped filming\u2014to appear in Season 2. Yet, she happened to run into both Markowski and Tucker Caine at Peter Zaitzeff\u2019s listing, resulting in a tearful apology from Markowski for the way she treated her last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that scene as if it was yesterday,\u201d Markowski said. \u201cWe arrived to Peter\u2019s listing, and I saw Savannah, and I haven\u2019t seen her in a very long time. It\u2019s saddened me to lose her and to put her through all that I did. It was really raw and natural.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI shed a tear and it just came from the bottom of my heart,\u201d she continued. \u201cI felt very sorry for what I put her through, and I\u2019m happy that this was documented on Season 2, because it was a real organic moment that came out of the blue for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markowski said that she and Gowarty are \u201ccordial,\u201d though she noted that she\u2019s been \u201cso busy\u201d with her career that she hasn\u2019t had much time to foster a deeper friendship with the former SERHANT agent.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said, I work on the top No. 1 producing team at the company,\u201d she told us. \u201cI am really busy even though people don\u2019t believe it. Like, I\u2019m genuinely overwhelmed, booked and busy. And it\u2019s hard to keep up with everyone right now because my eyes are on the prize and Ryan knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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