How Selling Sunset’s Oppenheim twins spend their cash: celebrity brokers Jason and Brett have sold billions in real estate, star on the hit Netflix reality show, and love luxury cars and sports cards

Nov 8 , 2023

Twin brothers Brett and Jason Oppenheim have made themselves – and each other – rich through their business endeavours. Photo: @brettoppenheim/Instagram

From their early law careers – Jason repped Enron’s former CEO during the Enron scandal – to their real estate and reality TV empires including Selling the OC, the Oppenheim twins are savvy operators

Jason bought The Avengers actor Jeremy Renner’s former house in 2020 for himself, but then rented it out for US$49,000 a month, and has been known to splurge US$250,000 on vintage sports cards

Jason and Brett Oppenheim have built multiple empires – one in real estate, and another in reality television.

The brothers are both renowned property brokers. According to The Oppenheim Group’s website, the brokerage has made over US$3 billion in total sales to date. What made the brokerage a household name, however, was the Netflix reality series Selling Sunset and its spin-off series Selling the OC, both of which document the property sales and interpersonal drama at The Oppenheim Group’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices, respectively.

While the brothers’ specific net worths haven’t been publicly disclosed, they’ve each sold millions – and in some cases, bought millions – in property. Here’s how they did it.

Jason and Brett Oppenheim both started out as lawyers

Brett and Jason Oppenheim share many of the same skills and passions. Photo: @brettoppenheim/Instagram

According to Jason’s profile on The Oppenheim Group website, he earned both his undergraduate and law degrees at UC Berkeley. After university, he worked as a lawyer at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers and, in the process, represented the former CEO of Enron during the Enron scandal. His salary as a lawyer was US$250,000 a year, Swagger Magazine reported.

According to Brett’s profile on the Oppenheim Real Estate website, he also earned his bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley and then earned a law degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to work at Skadden, Arps LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP as a securities litigation lawyer.

Brett was the first brother to move into real estate

Brett Oppenheim gave up a career in law to get into property. Photo: @brettoppenheim/Instagram

According to Brett’s website, when he left law, he decided to travel the world. In 2010, he returned to Los Angeles and decided to pivot into a career in property. As Brett told Tudum, he quit his law career and got his real-estate license before his brother Jason did.

Per Brett’s website, he’s sold over US$1 billion in property over the course of his career. Currently, he’s the owner, president and broker of record of Oppenheim Real Estate. But as shown on Selling Sunset, Brett still apparently works with his brother at The Oppenheim Group.

But Jason has closed US$2 billion more in sales than his brother

Jason Oppenheim has closed more than US$3 billion in property sales, making him very rich. Photo: @jasonoppenheim/Instagram

Jason’s Oppenheim Group profile, which lists him as the brokerage’s president and founder, says that he has closed over US$3 billion in sales, and currently has over US$300 million in active property listings. Those listings include “the largest home in the Hollywood Hills and one of the largest listings in Los Angeles at US$100 million”.