Spouse Bill Higgins Role Businesswoman | Name Barbara Corcoran Net worth $80 million | |
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Full Name Barbara Ann Corcoran Occupation Founder of The Corcoran Group, Barbara Corcoran Inc. and Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners Children Katie Higgins, Tom Higgins Books Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life Similar People Lori Greiner, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, Robert Herjavec, Mark Cuban Profiles | ||
Barbara Corcoran Reveals Her Tips on How to Be a Successful Businesswoman
Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949 in Edgewater, New Jersey) is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality. As a television personality, she is a "Shark" investor on ABC's Shark Tank.
Contents
- Barbara Corcoran Reveals Her Tips on How to Be a Successful Businesswoman
- Barbara corcoran of shark tank tips to real estate and business success the key 2013
- Biography
- Real estate commentator
- Personal life
- Selected works
- References
Barbara corcoran of shark tank tips to real estate and business success the key 2013
Biography
She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971. After graduation, she taught school for a year, but soon moved on working various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City. She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973 co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with her boyfriend, who fronted a $1,000 loan (approximately $5,420, inflation-adjusted, 2016). In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City.
In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to NRT Incorporated for $66 million. She is also a "Shark" investor on ABC's Shark Tank, and is invested in more than twenty businesses to date.
In September 2017 Corcoran was announced as a contestant for season 25 of Dancing with the Stars, where she will be partnered with Keo Motsepe. She is the third Shark Tank "shark"—after Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec—to take part. After the first week, Corcoran was in last place with a score of 14.
Real estate commentator
Barbara is a columnist for More Magazine, The Daily Review, and Redbook, has written several books, and has been featured in various shows such as Larry King Live. She has been a guest business speaker at various real estate events and is a business consultant via her consulting and television production business, Barbara Corcoran Inc. She is also the real estate contributor to NBC's Today show, hosts The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC, and writes a weekly column in the New York Daily News.
Personal life
Corcoran resides in Manhattan with her second husband, Bill Higgins, and their two children. On the April 18, 2014 episode of Shark Tank, Corcoran said one of her children is a seven-year-old adopted daughter, and has also said her second is a son in his twenties, Tom Corcoran. In season 5 episode 26 of Shark Tank, which aired April 25, 2014, Corcoran shares that her son attended an Ivy League school. On season 8, Barbara said her daughter Katie has learning disabilities.