What is Barbara Corcoran’s Net Worth?
Barbara Corcoran is an American businesswoman, investor, marketing consultant, writer, and tv character who has a net worth of $100 million. Corcoran is most well-known for being a “Shark” investor on the ABC TV program “Shark Tank,” which started airing in 2009. In 1973, she based an NYC actual property agency known as The Corcoran Group (initially known as Corcoran-Simone), which she bought to NRT (National Realty Trust) in 2001 for $66 million. Barbara has hosted the podcasts “888-Barbara” and “Business Unusual with Barbara” and CNBC’s “The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran.” She has written 3 books in addition to columns for “Redbook,” “More,” “The Daily Review,” and the “New York Daily News.”
As of 2023, Corcoran has made 130 offers on the “Shark Tank,” the biggest a $350,000 funding for 40% of Coverplay.
Early Life
Barbara Corcoran was born Barbara Ann Corcoran on March 10, 1949, in Edgewater, New Jersey. She grew up with 9 siblings in an Irish-Catholic family. Barbara, who has dyslexia, studied at St. Cecilia High School earlier than flunking out and transferring to Leonia High School. Barbara earned a level in training from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971, then spent a yr educating faculty. Corcoran has mentioned that she held 22 totally different jobs earlier than starting her actual property profession.
Career
At age 23, Corcoran started working as a receptionist on the Giffuni Brothers’ actual property agency. She needed to start out her personal enterprise, so she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend, Ray Simone, and the 2 co-founded actual property agency Corcoran-Simone, in 1973. Seven years later, the couple cut up up after Ray left Barbara for her secretary; he informed Corcoran she would not succeed with out him, and he or she’s been proving him incorrect ever since. Corcoran-Simone turned The Corcoran Group, and it was so successful that Barbara bought it for an astounding $66 million in 2001.
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Barbara started publishing actual property e-newsletter “The Corcoran Report” within the mid-Seventies, and he or she has written the books “If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons On Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned From My Mom” (2003), “Nextville: Amazing Places to Live Your Life” (2008), and “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 right into a Billion Dollar Business” (2011). Corcoran started showing on “Shark Tank” alongside Kevin O’Leary, Daymond John, Robert Herjavec, and Kevin Harrington in 2009, and the present has received 4 Emmys and 4 Critics Choice Television Awards. Barbara competed on season 25 of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2017, and Corcoran and her associate, Keo Motsepe, had been the primary couple to be eradicated. Barbara has appeared as herself on a number of tv reveals, together with “Drop Dead Diva” (2013) and “Grace and Frankie” (2020).
Personal Life
Barbara married retired Navy captain/former FBI agent Bill Higgins in 1988, they usually welcomed son Tom in 1994 after Corcoran underwent in vitro fertilization utilizing an egg from her sister Florence. The couple additionally has a daughter, Kate, who they adopted in 2005.
Barbara Corcoran has dyslexia, and her hobbies embody snowboarding and going to the seaside.
Real Estate
In 2001, Barbara and Bill paid $3.5 million for a 2,700 sq. foot Park Avenue house. In 2015, the couple bought a Fifth Avenue penthouse for $10 million; the 11-room residence features a solarium and conservatory in addition to a landscaped terrace.
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