Inside The Oppenheim Group From Selling Sunset’s Brand New LA Office

Season six of the hit Netflix reality show Selling Sunset is on the horizon, and when it finally arrives fans will see their favorite luxury realtors at the Oppenheim Group close deals and hash out drama in a brand-new filming location. The brokerage at the center of the show opened two new offices in the last two years—Cabo in 2022 and Newport Beach in 2021—and are continuing to expand this year. Not only is a San Diego office in the works, but the company has moved out of its longtime Sunset Boulevard office and into a bigger, more lavish space right next door.

With the brokerage nearing its tenth year in business, president and founder Jason Oppenheim felt it was time for an upgrade. When the neighboring business vacated, he jumped at the opportunity for a larger spot. “I love where I’m at. I really never wanted to move. But if I ever was going to move and expand, I wanted it to be right next door,” he tells AD. “Also, I think the idea that all the other real estate brokerages are [downsizing] right now and letting go of office space [motivated the move]. I like to be counterculture and I think it’s fun to expand when everyone else is contracting.” Well, we can’t argue with that.

For help designing the new office, which is twice the size of the old one, Oppenheim again turned to his frequent collaborators, Alex Becheru and Alice Kwan Becheru of the design firm White Glove Estates. This time around, the duo tells AD that they took inspiration from “the rich colors and decadent details of Old Hollywood” and paired it with more modern touches to achieve an interesting mix of classic and contemporary styles.

Oppenheim spared no expense building out the space, decking it out with an audio system from Bang and Olufsen that produces “sound [that] rivals any club that you’d see in LA,” a Calacatta Viola marble bar, and game tables that are “basically pieces of art.” The fifth-generation real estate mogul had been eyeing the latter items, which come from company 11 Ravens, for a long time. He selected a sleek, modern black pool table and a matching shuffleboard table, each $40,000, plus a $6,000 dart board.

Even without a budget in place, the space came with its own unique challenges—namely, a huge billboard support pole that goes right through it. “One of the most complicated aspects of the new build, I guess, was trying to figure out how to turn that ostensibly negative aspect of the new space into a positive one,” Oppenheim says. Becheru and Kwan Becheru set out to turn the unfortunate eyesore into an attractive focal point. “We decided to create a curved seating space around the column and turn it into an ostentatious light feature made up of over 300 lights,” the husband-and-wife team explains via email. Oppenheim was pleased with the result. “I think perhaps that was the most rewarding design feature that we did,” he remarks.