The brothers create over 60 hours of broadcast content each year, and have as many as 17 projects going on at a time. Kathleen Finch, the president of the DIY Network and HGTV, has planned to have a new episode of original content each week of the year. They are the most highly paid talent on HGTV, reputed to make between
US$75,000 and $150,000 an episode. To maximize efficiency and expertise, they hire local design, real estate, and construction companies in the cities where they film. The brothers have also brought on members of their extended network of friends and family, including JD (their older brother), Linda Phan (Drew's wife), Analee Belle (JD's wife), and Pedram (their best friend). Due to the nature of their roles, Jonathan spends more time physically onsite, while Drew manages the business aspects of their various enterprises; however, they arrange "planning sessions" to ensure that Jonathan's input is included in the decision making. In November 2017, both brothers were selected by
Habitat for Humanity for its highest honor, Habitat Humanitarians. According to the organization, the honor was "in recognition and furtherance of their dedication to Habitat for Humanity’s vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Property Brothers Property Brothers is a Canadian
reality television series that is produced by
Cineflix. Its history begins when Drew was living in
Vancouver and auditioning for acting roles. He was offered the chance to host a show called
Realtor Idol, based on the
American Idol format. When they learned he had a brother who was also in real estate, they developed a show around the pair; that company would later film their pilot for
Property Brothers. Within three weeks of its HGTV debut, the show was the top rated of the night. ,
Property Brothers remains one of HGTV's highest rated shows, is HGTV's number three primetime show, and averages 2 million viewers per week. The series received an Emmy nomination in 2015 for
Best Structured Reality Program. Seasons 6 and 7 have the brothers operating in the Greater Toronto Area, Nashville, Calgary, and Las Vegas.
Buying and Selling On
Buying and Selling, Jonathan renovates the family's current home for a successful sale, while Drew checks out the best options for the family's new property. The sixth season premiered on April 19, 2017. In 2017, the show remained one of HGTV’s top 10 primetime shows. The program was nominated for Lifestyle – Home at the
Realscreen Awards in 2014. In the show's original premise, each brother was assigned a property of similar value and structure, as well as a team of home improvement experts, including renovators, builders, and designers. and was the highest-rated program on W Network with women 25 to 54 every night of the first season. David Font—a landscape architect and business owner from Miami, Florida—won the $50,000 cash prize. Team Drew took the season, with $15,000 more in final property value for his home. With their older brother J.D. as the referee, the twins each purchase and renovate a house of their choice using their own money with the goal of increasing the property value of each home. a charity that benefits low-income homeowners. The first season under the new format (season three) premiered on June 3, 2015, and had an audience of over 13 million viewers. The season brought in 14 million viewers. The next season of
Brother vs. Brother was filmed in
Galveston, Texas, and premiered on May 31. Penalties for losing challenges included "be[ing] forced to endure miserable outings such as riding a terrifying amusement park attraction, climbing an 81-foot obstacle ropes course or heading out to sea to catch shrimp for the winner's dinner." Commercially, the season had more than 12 million total viewers, and was the number-two cable show among upscale women aged 25–54 in its timeslot. The following season was filmed in the suburbs of
San Francisco and premiered on May 28, 2018. HGTV announced the renewal of the series for a seventh season on December 17, 2019. On July 29, 2020, it was announced that the seventh season would premiere on September 18, 2020. By 2017,
Brother vs. Brother remained HGTV's highest rated show.
Property Brothers: At Home The twins decided to sell their individual homes and purchase a joint property in 2011, with the goal of establishing a hub for their extended family and friends. Jonathan began the search for a place that met all of their criteria (e.g. within 20 minutes of the airport), and they ultimately purchased a foreclosed, 5400 square-foot house west of
Mandalay Bay for $400,000. Eventually renamed
Property Brothers: At Home, it was the first production under the umbrella of Scott Brothers Entertainment. The show premiered on November 26, 2014 on HGTV in the United States, and became the most highly rated HGTV series premiere since 2009. It also aired in 2015 on the W Network in Canada.
Property Brothers: At Home on the Ranch After the success of
Property Brothers at Home, Scott Brothers Entertainment went on to create another spin-off series called
Property Brothers: At Home on the Ranch. In it, the brothers went back to the area where they grew up in the East Canadian Rockies in
Longview, Alberta to accomplish a 10-week renovation of the ranch of family friends Tom and Rosemary Bews. The renovation included the kitchen, dining room, living room, fireplace, and bathroom of the main home, as well as the guest cabin and the eight-stall horse stable. The four-episode series premiered on November 25, 2015 on HGTV. and "Let the Night Shine In" were released on various music platforms, including
iTunes,
Amazon.com and
Google Play. "Hold On" hit #38 on Billboard's
Hot Country Songs chart and was accompanied by a music video that has more than 5 million
Vevo views.
Brothers Take New Orleans In
Brothers Take New Orleans, Jonathan and Drew, with J.D.'s assistance, competed in the renovation of a traditional "
shotgun house"
duplex in
New Orleans that was built in 1904. The home had been uninhabited for 11 years when the brothers worked with the New Orleans disaster relief organization
SBP to completely restore the home. They collaborated with local designers and contractors to maintain the historical integrity of the home according to local code. Each week featured a specific design challenge: the kitchen, bedroom, living room. Guest judges
Scott Bakula,
Hoda Kotb, and
Ben and
Erin Napier were brought in to decide the winner.
''Property Brothers at Home: Drew's Honeymoon House'' Drew and his fiancée, Linda Phan, completed filming a five-episode chronicle of the 12-week remodel of their home in Los Angeles. The show, called ''Property Brothers at Home: Drew's Honeymoon House'', aimed to have all the renovations done in time for the couple's wedding rehearsal dinner. The series is produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, and Jonathan, Drew, Jane Van Deuren, and Jim MacPherson serve as executive producers. The home was built in the 1920s, and is "an original 1920s-era, 3,400-square-foot home" in
Hancock Park, Los Angeles. Jonathan and JD participated in the project. and on November 27 on HGTV Canada. While promoting the show, HGTV employed a multi-platform initiative designed to capitalize on the 513 million monthly visitors they receive across their digital platforms, as well as its 104 million television viewers per month. Maximizing the wedding theme from the home renovation program, the network would produce more than a dozen short-form videos around the show, as well as exclusive digital and social content, a national print story in
HGTV Magazine, and a special episode of
Food Network's
Cake Hunters (which aired in February 2018).
Property Brothers: Linda & Drew Say I Do Drew and Linda wed on May 12, 2018, and the nuptials and related festivities were featured in
Property Brothers: Linda & Drew Say I Do, a television special that aired on
TLC on June 2, 2018. In the fall of 2018, casting began in Las Vegas for a new show on which the brothers would help families transform their homes into their dream, "forever" homes. Filming began in January 2019. In the show's premise, Drew has the homeowners tour nearby renovated homes to figure out which features they can and cannot live without. Jonathan then presents two design options and, once the couple decides, the renovations begin.
Property Brothers: Forever Home debuted on May 29, 2019 in the US and on June 3, 2019 in Canada. The first episode delivered the highest-rated series premiere for HGTV since March 2017, garnering a .84 live plus three-day rating among P25-54. The June 10, 2019 episode featured the renovation of the home of JD Scott, the twins' older brother, and his fiancé, Annalee Belle. The second season premiered on December 18, 2019. The third season premiered on April 15, 2020. The fourth season premiered on October 28, 2020.
A Very Brady Renovation A Very Brady Renovation showcases the renovation of the
North Hollywood, California home used for many of the exterior shots in the 1969–1974 American
sitcom The Brady Bunch. HGTV purchased the home in 2018 for $3.5 million, and the brothers' renovation of the home was completed in May 2019. The resulting show premiered on September 9, 2019.
Celebrity IOU In April 2020, the program
Celebrity IOU debuted, a show in which celebrities surprise their personal heroes with home makeovers. Celebrities invited to the first season of the show included
Brad Pitt,
Viola Davis,
Rebel Wilson, and
Melissa McCarthy. In September 2020, Australian network
Nine, of which airs the program, announced they would be making an Australian adaptation of the series to air in 2021. In March 2021, Brazilian networks
SBT and
Discovery Home & Health, of which airs the program, announced they would be making a Brazilian adaptation entitled
Te Devo Essa! Brasil, which premiered on June 5, 2021.
Builder Brothers Dream Factory Builder Brothers Dream Factory, an animated series for preschoolers centred on child versions of the Scott brothers learning cooperation and construction skills as they try to solve problems, premiered in 2023 on
Treehouse TV.
''Don't Hate Your House with the Property Brothers'' ''Don't Hate Your House with the Property Brothers'', in which the Scotts help families renovate their existing homes, premiered on HGTV in Canada and the United States in 2024.
Property Brothers: Under Pressure In 2025,
Rogers Sports & Media announced
Property Brothers: Under Pressure as a commission for its
new Canadian HGTV channel, where the Scott brothers would help prospective homebuyers commit to a purchase by exploring renovation options. The series premiered in spring 2026.
Future programs In early 2018, HGTV signed a multiyear extension to their contract with Drew and Jonathan Scott for original content. In April 2019, Jonathan and Drew purchased the house next door to Drew's Los Angeles home. Despite online speculation that Jonathan would be moving there, he denied the rumors, saying, "We may have a project coming up. You’ll have to stay tuned for that." On June 10, 2019, the brothers announced on Instagram that they would be coming to Latin America to film, and confirmed that they would be in South America (particularly Brazil) in the following weeks. Long term, the brothers would like to host a talk show, and say they have been approached by "several broadcast networks," but the timing is not right at the moment. They also hope to host an episode of
Saturday Night Live. ==Web series==