The Richest HGTV Stars Might Surprise You

before they hit the big time these future hosts were just working to make a living in real estate when hgtv came calling business exploded and so did their wallets but who's breaking the bank at the top of the list from renovations to riches we've got the scoop on the network's richest stars growing up as aspiring actors real estate became a way for drew and jonathan scott to make money to fund their movies they paid only 250 for their first flip and made fifty thousand dollars on it and as jonathan told smashing interviews magazine that's when the light bulb went on saying there's something here this is gonna be good following their initial flips the duo we now know as the property brothers were tapped to host several real estate shows because of their background i started being pitched as a host i'm like that's lame i want to be an action superstar like tom cruise you said being a host of a tv show was lame have to tell your crowd know your crowd but after considering the doors that hosting could open the brothers took a risk that really paid off the property bros are reportedly worth a cool 200 million dollars these days with drew joking to interviews it all comes down to slow motion renovations and tight jeans that's the winning recipe even though mike holmes isn't currently appearing on hgtv he's still made a hefty fortune off his shows homes on homes and homes makes it right an estimated 30 million dollars if you're counting under a sink should water be close to electrical no it all started with the launch of his own construction company as a contractor he was consistently seeing the same renovation mistakes being made and he knew he could help homeowners make it right he told working real estate i appreciate being in the position to educate people on what's right whether it's how a home should be constructed or how it should be inspected the bad odor smell that's why there's a trap in the toilet there's a trap in the sink and trapped under the between thomas crapper and the trap i've learned a lot in this segment holmes can do attitude and make it right mono are what cultivated real trust with clients in fact he was named the third most trustworthy celebrity by forbes in 2012. still he joked to the diy network it amazes me after doing my television show all these years that i'm still seeing homeowners making the same knucklehead mistakes over and over somewhere in between their hit show fixer-upper and their home decor lines chip and johanna gaines became millionaires but not too long ago the couple was worried about putting food on the table for their kids chip revealed to success magazine in 2017 we reached a certain point in our career to where we kind of felt like we could take a breath for the first time don't ever quit no matter what there's always a silver lining right around the corner according to cbs it was while they were running their construction company that a producer noticed them but while they knew they'd spend their lives renovating houses they never thought they'd end up on air in addition to dozens of renovations the couple has constructed themselves an estimated 20 million dollars net worth joanna told entertainment tonight it's a dream come true because at the end of the day what we're passionate about is creating homes for families brian and sarah baumler series island of brian quickly became hgtv canada's most watched show on the network it was so successful that it led to brian accruing a reported net worth of 20 million dollars and thanks to those stellar ratings the bomblers hit the u.s market in march 2020 brian joked to the sun sentinel if the show does as well in the us as it has in canada it could just ruin our anonymity everything is starting to come together yeah we should probably deal with that with a name change from island of bryan to renovation island for us audiences the series followed the family's move to the bahamas where they got busy renovating an entire oceanside resort and with an ever-increasing fan base it seems like the bombers will just keep raking in that cash things should go a lot smoother smoother i think she goes smoothly christina anstead never imagined she would find a hosting home on hgtv but it's given her quite the career leading to a net worth of roughly 12 million dollars while many fans know amstead from flipper flop she actually got her start as a judge on brother versus brother thanks to her eye for design she posted on instagram while i never wanted to be on tv stepping out of my comfort zone and into the unknown has always been my thing i think this just might be my favorite flip we've ever done despite enduring two public divorces anstead has kept her focus on the house flips along with launching her own show christina on the coast she's continued to work with her ex-husband tarek el musa telling yahoo i enjoyed every second of it and i think in the end that's all that really matters hi my name is tarek al-musa and i'm christine l moussa this is our flip we bought a dump in santa ana for 115 grand and we're hoping to at least make a couple dollars derek el musa was just your typical real estate agent when the market crashed in 2008 but in order to keep bringing home the bacon he started flipping houses he explained to business insider the market had obviously become very depressed and i started seeing all these different deals coming across the table and at the time i wasn't a house flipper so i wasn't buying those properties but i saw that the potential profit was huge with a new gig that was constantly making money el moussa invested in a camera crew to document his flips and his flops hdtv eventually came calling and flip or flop propelled him to the top today this host is worth a whopping 10 million dollars but starring alongside his ex-wife christina drew a lot of attention when the duo divorced in 2016. tarek admitted to usa today it was the absolute worst thing in the world now i embrace the fact that people know all about me just make it happen give it everything we have his network's success led to a spin-off series flipping 101 with tariq al musa where first time flippers learn the ropes from one of the best in the industry hillary farr famously wants homeowners to love her renovations and it seems she's loving her paycheck too reportedly this love it or listed star is worth a cool eight million dollars are you going to love it or are you going to list it we're going to love it what but this designer seems to have always been primed for show business she was an actress early on but she also had a knack for flipping houses she explained to mea worldwide i loved redecorating and renovating houses i lived in and always sold for a profit i was in heaven doing what i realized i was really good at and loved and making money too hgtv provided the perfect opportunity for farr to combine her calling for design as well as entertainment she told the baltimore media blog i love the crew and i love my co-host david i'm doing what i love to do does he annoy the hell out of me yes it's like being in a dogfight does he irritate me yes but i think what a great team david byzantine was a working real estate agent when he got a call to audition for love it or listed though he was new to tv byzantine seemed destined to star alongside designer hillary farr though the two are known for their arguments after all it is a competition it sure looks like he's loving it after over a dozen seasons on air there's also the paycheck of course landing him at a net worth of roughly six million dollars but while he has a full schedule with his various network duties byzantine is pocketing even more cash off camera likely in high demand as an hd tv star he revealed i sell real estate for a living i've got a pocket full of buyers and only a few great places on the market long before hgtv made a star out of rehab addict nicole curtis she was hustling for a paycheck in the real world she told country living there are people who think that all of this came easily i want them to know i was working for 9.75 an hour at banana republic i was waiting tables i was cleaning toilets i'm like 60 days from being bankrupt luckily hgtv bra curtis her big break though season one of her hit series had her dumpster diving for scraps to save money she was busy carving out a serious fortune to the tune of seven million dollars curtis was always a real estate agent with a love for renovation especially houses that no one else would ever take on but since she isn't able to make any money from her flips she owns them and lists them as airbnbs she told ktla5 i don't sell them because otherwise i would lose money on every single one of them real estate is in egypt sherrod's dna the property virgin's host told madame noir i come from a family of real estate brokers and so you can imagine thanksgiving dinners initially that was what deterred her from diving into the family biz as a young adult and instead steered her toward radio but she claimed as i got older and wiser i realized you have to do smarter things without money and i grew up knowing that real estate was the foundation of wealth this is living with a net worth of roughly six million dollars it's clear her strategy worked sherrod first flipped her own houses but after wasting cash on commissions for other real estate agents she decided to become an agent herself when she landed on hgtv she was truly able to showcase all of her talents she said i jumped at the opportunity and felt like it was a gift from god to finally have a platform that shows all the different sides of me life was hectic for hosts courtney and robert novogratz back when they were deep in the midst of filming hgtv's home by novogratz about those first flips courtney admitted to forbes we acted as the contractors architects and designers it was the beginning although in some ways i feel like i'm just getting started a lot of people think that he's more construction and i'm more design he's more design and i'm more construction their hustle paid off earning them an estimated four million dollar fortune along with their seven children their own design line and their role in managing their kids acting careers this couple clearly likes to stay busy but it's not all about the money courtney admitted i'll never be the richest it's about constantly seeking happiness for myself and for those around me renovating properties on his own is what has earned scott mcgilvery a tiny four million dollar net worth it all started when he was in college and couldn't find a place to live that's when he had an epiphany explaining to haas magazine if i lived in the house and rented it out to my friends i would make money living here versus paying rent every month it just kind of spiraled from there this reminds me a lot of the necklaces that you wear you have a necklace like this do you not by the time he was 25 years old he was the proud owner of 25 properties and when hgtv came along mcgilvrey was able to share his expertise with a wide audience but while the paycheck is pretty nice he says that helping homeowners is the greatest reward adding i love seeing people get a good return on their investment so you better be prepared to work hard at just 10 years old alice and victoria's parents let her redesign their basement sparking her lifelong passion for design but while this windy city rehab host has since made herself into a millionaire the journey hasn't always been an easy one we've done this a couple times for me and the entire team will walk back and kind of go what's this and i'm like what's this and they're always like it's don evans victoria made headlines after she cut ties with her business partner donovan eckhart during season two after he mishandled their finances according to people victoria told the outlet it's your reputation that you have built really from the ground up since you were a little girl and i'm not going to let one person destroy that though fans were shocked victoria stayed focused after all she had created each of her shows as a way to showcase the real side of renovations fortunately victoria's risk taking has paid off to the tune of three million dollars when people call me a star i think it's weird i go no i'm just a person with a cool job when david bromstad won design star season 1 he was pretty much set up for hgtv success not to mention that it also made him a millionaire he said in a network promo if this show didn't happen then i don't know where i would be growing up as an aspiring artist bromstad was previously barely scraping by but once he clinched the top spot on the network's design competition he quickly gained notoriety as well as a net worth of 2 million dollars he told adworks i'm completely blessed you know i went from starving artists to not so starving these days braumstad is best known as the effervescent host of my lottery dream home where he helps newly 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Length: 13min 9sec (789 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021