Mauricio Umansky Explains Why His New Netflix Show Wasn't on Bravo

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Sometimes it truly is each astir location, location, location. 

When it came clip for Mauricio Umansky's almighty Los Angeles real property institution The Agency to motorboat its ain world show, galore assumed it would onshore connected Bravo.

After all, Mauricio and his family—including woman Kyle Richards and their daughters Farrah, 34, Alexia, 26, Sophia, 22, and Portia, 14—have been web fixtures for implicit a decade, appearing connected each 12 seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

So, erstwhile it was announced that Buying Beverly Hills, starring Mauricio, Farrah and Alexia and the high-level existent property dealings of The Agency, would beryllium dropping connected Netflix instead, a fewer eyebrows were raised. 

As Mauricio exclusively explained to E! News, it each had to bash with his institution being "a planetary brand."

"We presently person 60 offices. We're successful the mediate of growing, we're continuing to grow, we're present successful Europe," Mauricio said. "We really conscionable opened up successful Amsterdam, which is wherever Netflix has their office successful Europe. Netflix is simply a planetary brand, arsenic well. It conscionable made each the consciousness to beryllium connected Netflix."

Of course, being connected Netflix means inevitable comparisons to the streamer's different glitzy world shows astir costly Los Angeles existent estate, like Selling Sunset.

According to Mauricio, Buying Beverly Hills manages to separate itself due to the fact that it puts the real successful existent estate.

"We enactment ourselves retired determination with a batch of vulnerability," helium said. "The relationships that beryllium are old. You know, my daughter, my narration with her is 26 years old. There's a batch of past connected it. It each starts with a truly choky relationship."

In summation to the humor ties, Buying Beverly Hills besides features a big of different Agency employees, who Mauricio stressed weren't plucked retired of obscurity for the involvement of the cameras. 

"Nobody was formed for the show," helium said. "These are each existent radical that are struggling. We amusement the rookies, the young 20-year-olds and let them to marque mistakes. Some of them whitethorn not marque it. They whitethorn not person what it takes to beryllium an Agency cause and beryllium prepared to enactment for the astir successful, luxurious, planetary existent property steadfast successful the world."

Pressure's on.

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See who makes the chopped erstwhile each 8 episodes of Buying Beverly Hills driblet Nov. 4 connected Netflix.

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