The second season of Owning Manhattan delivered some astonishing real estate stories, featuring highlights like the impressive $60 million transaction at 150 Charles and Chloe Tucker Caine’s innovative musical approach that secured a $5 million listing. Yet, it was Jessica Markowski’s intriguing handling of a $7 million one-bedroom apartment in Tribeca that stood out as one of the season’s captivating negotiations on the popular Netflix series.

In the season’s premiere episode, Markowski faced the challenge of selling a one-bedroom unit on Washington St. priced at $7 million. The seller, her friend Alfonso Cobo, a successful entrepreneur who sold his company Unfold to Squarespace for an impressive $50 million, added an interesting layer to the deal. The buyer made an offer of $6.9 million, but Cobo countered with the full asking price. The resolution was unexpected: they agreed on $6.925 million, with the buyer acquiring the furniture, except for the art and mattress that the seller chose to keep “out of spite.” Coincidentally, the buyer’s involvement in a mattress company made this arrangement feasible.

“I’ve never had to negotiate over mattresses before,” Markowski shared with DECIDER during her visit to their studio before Season 2 launched on Netflix. “But whatever it took to close the deal, I was on board. It added an element of fun to the experience, for sure.”

Markowski, who is part of the high-achieving Bogard New York Team at Ryan Serhant’s real estate firm, noted that such meticulous attention to detail is common in high-end sales.

“It’s just part of the business,” Markowski explained. “Whether we’re discussing a mattress, a piece of art, or even a plant, it’s often about these seemingly minor details.”

Markowski, for her part, has largely been able to stay out of the drama this season. After joining ex-SERHANT agent/Season 1 villain Jonathan Nørmolle in trashing an up-and-coming realtor—Savannah Gowarty—in a podcast filmed in Season 1, Markowski has been keeping her “eyes on the prize” when it comes to her career, meaning she won’t be hopping on a podcast to drag her fellow co-stars again anytime soon.

With that ordeal taking up a good chunk of Season 1’s drama, no one expected Gowarty—who ultimately left SERHANT after they wrapped filming—to appear in Season 2. Yet, she happened to run into both Markowski and Tucker Caine at Peter Zaitzeff’s listing, resulting in a tearful apology from Markowski for the way she treated her last season.

“I remember that scene as if it was yesterday,” Markowski said. “We arrived to Peter’s listing, and I saw Savannah, and I haven’t seen her in a very long time. It’s saddened me to lose her and to put her through all that I did. It was really raw and natural.”

“I shed a tear and it just came from the bottom of my heart,” she continued. “I felt very sorry for what I put her through, and I’m happy that this was documented on Season 2, because it was a real organic moment that came out of the blue for me.”

Markowski said that she and Gowarty are “cordial,” though she noted that she’s been “so busy” with her career that she hasn’t had much time to foster a deeper friendship with the former SERHANT agent.

“As I said, I work on the top No. 1 producing team at the company,” she told us. “I am really busy even though people don’t believe it. Like, I’m genuinely overwhelmed, booked and busy. And it’s hard to keep up with everyone right now because my eyes are on the prize and Ryan knows that.”

Owning Manhattan Season 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.