Barbara Corcoran

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Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949) is an American businesswoman, speaker, advisor, syndicated columnist, and television presenter.

She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage firm in New York City, and she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001.

She has now appeared on ABC's Shark Tank as a "Shark" investor, a role she has held for nine seasons.

She has made 59 deals on the show, the most notable being a $350,000 investment in Coverplay.

Corcorcoran, a columnist for More, The Daily Review, and Redbook, her mean investment size is $103,113, and her median investment size is $75,000.

She has written several books and has appeared on Larry King Live on NBC's Today Show, Barbara Corcoran, anchoring The Millionaire Broker, a weekly column in the New York Daily News, and a guest speaker and advisor.

Early life and education

Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, and was the second of ten children in a working class Irish Catholic family. Florence, her mother, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, transitioned from job to job throughout Corcoran's childhood. At times, her family was dependent on free food from a nearby grocer. Corcoran recalls her father as a man who occasionally drank too much and treated her mother with disrespect and condescension, particularly when he was drinking.

Corcoran suffered through her childhood, then discovering she had dyslexia later in life. She attended a local Catholic elementary school and began high school at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran then attended Leonia High School, where she graduated as a D student after flunking several courses during her freshman year.

Corcoran graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971, doing better than she did in her previous education.

Personal life

Corcoran and her husband, Bill Higgins, a former Navy captain and former FBI agent who served in the Gulf War, both live in Manhattan. In 1988, the couple married. Correspondent. With an egg donated by her sister Florence, Corcoran gave birth to their son in 1994, via in vitro fertilization. A daughter was later adopted by the couple.

In 2001, she bought a 2,700-square-foot apartment in a co-op building on Park Avenue for $3.5 million.

Corcoran bought a penthouse unit on Fifth Avenue in 2015 for $10 million.

She held a mock funeral in 2019 for her 70th birthday.

Skiing and going to the beach are two of her favorite pastimes.

Corcorcoran has dyslexia and was dubbed "dumb boy" by her teachers and classmates. According to Corcoran, bullying "pushed her to work harder and acquire the skills she needed to succeed."

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Career

After graduating college, she taught school for a year but soon moved on. She had worked a total of 20 jobs by the time she was 23, including a side job renting apartments in New York City. While she was a waitress, her boyfriend convinced her to work for a real estate company. She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973, while working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers' real estate company in New York City, co-founded The Corcoran-Simonè with her boyfriend, who loaned $1,000. She split from her boyfriend seven years later after he told her he was going to marry her secretary and she then formed her own firm, The Corcoran Group.

In the mid-1970s, she also began publishing The Corcoran Report, a newsletter covering real estate data trends in New York City.

In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to NRT for $66 million.

In September 2017, Corcoran was announced as a contestant for season 25 of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with Keo Motsepe.

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