Davina Potratz shows a client a property in L.A., in Season Two of *Selling Sunset.*

In the U.K., L.A. Sells

Why do Brits love Selling Sunset, the tacky reality-TV show set in L.A.’s most ostentatious neighborhoods?

By Flora Gill

We have real-estate reality-TV shows in the U.K., but they’re nothing like Selling Sunset.

Here they involve plain-clothed plain couples, hoping to upgrade from a small house in a country village to an ever so slightly larger house in a different country village. Or they’re ambitious thirtysomethings redesigning their homes and causing great drama when they miscalculate just how long the concrete takes to set.