{"id":71450,"date":"2025-12-15T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71450\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:31:09","slug":"owning-manhattan-star-peter-zaitzeff-promises-he-didnt-mean-to-be-rude-when-he-hung-up-on-ryan-serhant-i-needed-to-get-down-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71450\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Owning Manhattan\u2019 Star Peter Zaitzeff Promises He \u201cDidn\u2019t Mean To Be Rude\u201d When He Hung Up On Ryan Serhant: \u201cI Needed To Get Down To Business\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Zaitzeff<\/a>\u2014known lovingly to Owning Manhattan<\/a> fans as Peter \u201cSexy Rabbit,\u201d due to the Russian translation of his last name\u2014brokered some of the biggest deals seen in the Netflix show\u2019s sophomore season, including the $60 million sale at 150 Charles in the West Village.<\/p>\n

Zaitzeff was first introduced in Season 2, Episode 1, when Ryan Serhant<\/a> poached him for his own team. According to Zaitzeff\u2014who came to SERHANT from Corcoran\u2014the real estate mogul had been trying to hire him in the company for \u201cclose to four years.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge decision,\u201d Zaitzeff said. \u201cIt took me three months to make the decision and [it was] an emotional one, because moving brokerages is very difficult.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot that you need to do. You have to stay very focused. You have to bring all your clientele over,\u201d he continued. \u201cI was at a stage in my career where I was doing really well, and to make a change like this was a lot for me to process. I think I cried for three months in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Zaitzeff did finally decide to make the move, he was tapped to sell $300 million of inventory at 200 Amsterdam in the Upper West Side (after nearly two years, only two listings at a combined total of $50 million remain available). But that wasn\u2019t the only score from his debut season in Owning Manhattan. Zaitzeff also sold the $60 million unit at 150 Charles in a heated bidding war between Serhant\u2019s buyer and his own buyer, who offered full asking price.<\/p>\n

When Serhant first called him with the news that his buyer was willing to offer $55 million cash for the property in Season 2, Episode 5, Zaitzeff put up a fight in the name of his seller\u2014who wouldn\u2019t take below asking\u2014before hanging up the phone, a move that shocked viewers.<\/p>\n

When we caught up with Zaitzeff, he explained that he hung up on Serhant because he was busy closing a different $20 million deal at 200 Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already had the higher number [for 150 Charles] so my firm focus was on that development deal and doing that $20 million deal [at 200 Amsterdam],\u201d Zaitzeff said. \u201cRyan knows, because I work for the company, I was doing business for the company for him, so I expected him to understand. I didn\u2019t mean to be rude, but at the time, I needed to get down to business, which I was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"'Owning Photo: Netflix<\/p>\n

When it came down to it, Zaitzeff\u2019s buyer was able to offer the full $60 million for 150 Charles, which Serhant\u2019s buyer refused to do. With Serhant\u2019s ego slightly bruised by this personal loss, Zaitzeff said he \u201cdidn\u2019t expect\u201d him to \u201cbe so emotionally charged.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know Ryan was going to get that emotional in that moment,\u201d Zaitzeff said. \u201cHe lost the deal to me in the moment. But it was a huge win for the company in the grand scheme of things.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when we were negotiating that, like, [as] Ryan\u2019s close, dear friend, I wanted to give him a hug,\u201d he added. \u201cI wanted to hug him and be like, \u2018Is it OK? Relax. It\u2019s just a deal.\u2019 At the end of the day, people are what matters. Ryan matters. Everybody on the cast matters. Everybody in the business matters. And that\u2019s how I really take things to heart all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admitting the tense scene was still \u201cfun to watch,\u201d Zaitzeff also made sure to give Serhant his flowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan beats me on so many other things. He did a $250 million deal in Miami, which I\u2019m not doing,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s enough business in this city for everybody. As long as you do it ethically, you do your job well, and you represent your clients in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owning Manhattan Season 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Zaitzeff\u2014known lovingly to Owning Manhattan fans as Peter \u201cSexy Rabbit,\u201d due to the Russian translation of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,12,63,36486,33102,3296,5045],"class_list":{"0":"post-71450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-peter-zaitzeff","16":"tag-reality-show","17":"tag-reality-tv","18":"tag-ryan-serhant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}