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This year has brought significant upheaval, overhaul and restructuring across the reality TV landscape.

HGTV has canceled seven real estate and design fan favorites and will launch a handful of new shows in 2026. The network’s fate is still up in the air as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery navigates an acquisition proposal from Netflix, with Paramount also making moves to stay in the conversation.

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The Netflix proposal still has to get past regulators before the deal is done. If Netflix comes out victorious, CNN, TNT and HGTV will not be included. Instead, they’ll form a new company, Discovery Global, in 2026.

As HGTV’s programming and ownership continue to evolve, real estate-focused reality TV has all but disappeared from Bravo. The network paused Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, the last MDL franchise, earlier this year, and 2025 newcomer Sold on SLC will not be getting another season.

When it comes to high-stakes, dramatic real estate TV, that leaves three mainstays on Netflix: Selling Sunset, Selling the OC and Owning Manhattan — none of which have officially been renewed at the time of this writing. Brand newcomer, Selling the City, a New York City-based show following a team at Douglas Elliman, aired in January of 2025 and has also not been renewed at this point.

Below, we’ll look at the impact of these programming changes and the storylines to watch if the Netflix series do get another season in 2026.

Cancellations, pauses, splits

HGTV clears the decks

This summer, HGTV announced it’s canceling seven of its home improvement shows. Declining viewership and rising production costs reportedly led to the cancellations, with home renovation shows costing more than $500,000 per episode.

The shows that aren’t coming back in 2026 are:

Married to Real Estate with Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson
Izzy Does It with contractor Israel “Izzy” Battres
Farmhouse Fixer with New Kid on the Block Jonathan Knight and designer Kristina Crestin
Bargain Block with Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas
Battle on the Beach with Ty Pennington, Alison Victoria and Taniya Nayak
Christina on the Coast with Christina Haack
The Flipping El Moussas with Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae El Moussa

On the bright side, Home Town Season 10 will air Jan. 4, 2026. Also, Fixer to Fabulous, My Lottery Dream Home, The Flip Off, Rock the Block, Renovation Aloha and Ugliest House in America will all return for another season.

HGTV will also launch new titles in 2026, including Property Brothers: Under Pressure, Cheap A$$ Beach Houses, My Lottery Dream Home: David’s Happy Ending, Botched Homes and World’s Bargain Dream Homes.

Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles gets put on pause

In March, TMZ reported that Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles was put on pause, a term that Bravo uses when pausing production on projects or stars. In the case of Real Housewives of Miami, for example, the show was taken off pause after nearly eight years. But RHOM is the exception rather than the rule.

Prior to the pause, in October 2024, after 13 years on the show, Josh Altman announced that he was leaving, along with his wife and co-star Heather Altman.

Earlier this year, in January, co-star Tracy Tutor moved her 18-person team from Douglas Elliman to Compass. Josh Flagg had made the move from Elliman to Compass nearly a year before. And in other MDLLA splits, alums James Harris and David Parnes announced their business split after 13 years together.

With the last Million Dollar Listing franchise on pause, and Sold on SLC not coming back for a second season, Bravo’s real estate reality TV portfolio is nil.

Ongoing drama

Selling the OC‘s Tyler Stanaland gets married

In Laguna Beach on Nov. 22, Tyler Stanaland eloped with Hanna Morrissey following a one-month engagement. OK, this one might not seem very real estate, but you can bet that it’ll shape the next season of Selling the OC (though there is no official word on whether there will be a Season 5 yet).

Why? Most of the drama over the past several seasons has centered on the will-they, won’t-they relationship between Stanaland and Alex Hall.

When the show started, Stanaland was married to actress Brittany Snow, but the couple divorced in 2023. Viewers of the Selling Sunset spinoff watch Hall and Stanaland’s relationship grow from a flirtation in Season 1 to what seems like a relationship by Season 3. In the latest season, Hall has moved on to another relationship, and Stanaland is dating.

Even though they’re over, Season 4’s drama between Alex Hall and Ashtyn Zerboni initially stems from Zerboni telling co-workers in the office that she had heard Stanaland was in another relationship while dating Hall.

Colleague Brandi Marshall warned Zerboni against discussing Hall after landing in her crosshairs for voicing that she didn’t think it was a good idea for the two to date in a previous season.

Marshall told Inman, “Alex [Hall] and I don’t necessarily have a feud. To be honest, I just think she owes me an apology … I was just being a true friend to her at the time and telling her that I felt like she was putting herself in a bad situation [dating Tyler Stanaland] … there was never any ill intentions on my behalf, but I don’t have any feud with her, but I did really resonate with how Ashtyn felt because it’s almost like there’s an elephant in the room, and if anybody speaks on the elephant, then you’re a bad guy.”

READ: Brandi Marshall on ‘Selling the OC’ stardom, feuds and a brutal real estate market

It’s a pretty safe bet that Stanaland’s recent nuptials will be next season’s elephant.

Cast shakeups

Chrishelle Stause leaves Selling Sunset

Selling Sunset Season 9 dropped on Oct. 29, with a reunion episode a week later. Two days after the reunion aired, Bustle published Chrishelle Stause’s shocking announcement that she would not be returning for another season, citing that the show is no longer good for her mental health.

The announcement came on the heels of a season that saw the entire group grow even more divided, with BFFs Stause and Emma Hernan falling out over Hernan’s boyfriend’s alleged problematic behavior and comments.

Stause is still with The Oppenheim Group, but whether she will stay there remains to be seen. The All My Children actress has been steadily adding to her IMDB page and told Bustle that she’s “lucky to have other forms of employment.”

Meanwhile, Hernan is also hinting at a Selling Sunset exit. And a possible Owning Manhattan entrance?

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Stause has been with the show since the beginning. Should there be a Season 10 of Selling Sunset (no official word yet), it will surely be a different show without her.

Owning Manhattan returns for Season 2 with a new cast member

After agents Jonathan Nørmølle and Savannah Gowarty exited last season, it’s no surprise Ryan Serhant filled the gap they left early on. In the first episode of Season 2, Serhant meets with then-Corcoran agent Peter Zaitzeff, whom he’d been wooing for four years.

In a meetup at 200 Amsterdam, with “hundreds of millions of dollars of inventory to sell in one building,” Zaitzeff makes it clear that he is happy at Corcoran. He has meaningful relationships, and CEO Pam Liebman is good to him.

However, when Serhant offers him the position of sales director for the entire building, he decides to make the move to SERHANT., which ruffles some feathers with established agents who’ve been feeling the pains of a growing brokerage, especially Jordan March.

In January 2024, Peter Zaitzeff officially joined SERHANT., and in the past 12 months, he has closed over $300 million, with career sales at more than $6.5 billion in sales across 750-plus transactions, according to his bio. The new in-house competition definitely shakes things up in Season 2.

Meanwhile, viewers also saw Nile Lundgren in a near fistfight over one of his team members, Génesis Suero, potentially poaching one of Jess Taylor’s team’s clients, allegations Lundgren forcefully denied. That feud continues throughout the season, rearing its head in Miami as the agents involved in the altercation are flown down by Serhant to sell Mercedes-Benz Places.

One of the joys of watching Owning Manhattan is seeing the “honorary mayor of Brooklyn,” Tricia Lee, and her life and business partner, Jeffery St. Arromand, expand their team’s business into Manhattan. Lee told Inman, “When I closed out Season 2, I had such a new fire for Brooklyn … not to say that we don’t do great business in Manhattan … But I definitely closed out Season 2 fired up.”

READ: From selling MAC to ‘Owning Manhattan’: Tricia Lee shares her meteoric rise

Netflix has not yet confirmed a Season 3, but we’ll be watching to see how these stories develop (and hoping to see more of Serhant’s wife Emilia Bechrakis Serhant, who now works at the brokerage).

What real estate reality TV moments are you still thinking about from this year? What are you looking forward to in 2026? Please share in the comments section below.

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