Million rand realty reality TV coming to BBC Lifestyle from June in Listing Jozi as BBC Studios Africa expands its local content slate.

by Thinus Ferreira

Million rand real estate reality television is coming to BBC Lifestyle (DStv 174) from June when a brand-new show will track the stressful property buying and selling showdowns behind-the-scenes in a new series following some of Johannesburg’s top realty brokers in Listing Jozi.
 
The new series on BBC Studios Africa's BBC Lifestyle channel will pull back the blinds behind the extremely stressful process of selling and negotiating sales for prime property in the heart of Africa's gleaming concrete jungle of Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
Just like the well-known Million Dollar Listing franchise of NBCUniversal's Bravo channel in the United States where cameras follow realty brokers in New York and Los Angeles as they try to sell anything from megamansions to penthouse apartments for top dollar, the new local reality show will pull back the blinds on the property dealmaker princes and princesses who don't just smile and wave and the showhouse open but go on to clinch the top transactions.
 
Inbetween high-stress character interactions as brokers, clients, buyers and sellers try to do a deal, viewers get to gawk at eye-popping "property porn" that’s on sale in the city of gold.
 
Produced by AlternaTV, everything around Listing Jozi, including the episode order number, is still very hush-hush, although TVwithThinus can reveal that the series will debut on BBC Lifestyle on 16 June.

 
Listing Jozi marks the further expansion of BBC Studios Africa's localised content slate that over the past few years until now mostly revolved around format adaptations of food competition shows like Come Dine with Me South Africa and The Great South African Bake Off, as well as the restaurant-dating series First Dates South Africa.
 
According to insiders the Listing Jozi realty broker cast includes 3 men and 2 women from some of the top firms in South Africa with realtors whose selling prowess and interactions with clients and potential buyers and sellers lead to jaw-dropping moments. 
 
The million rand realtors followed by Listing Jozi include Lara Nathan from Pam Golding Properties, Ryan Kwan from Law Real Estate, Jabulile Mazibuko from Law Real Estate, Edgar Leopoldo Nche from Law Real Estate, as well as Grahame Diedericks from Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty.