Barbara Corcoran Biography
Barbara Corcoran is a businesswoman, investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality from the United States. She founded The Corcoran Group, a New York City real estate brokerage, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and exited shortly after.
How old is Barbara Corcoran? – Age
She is 73 years old as of 10 March 2022. She was born in 1949 in Edgewater, New Jersey, United States. Her real name is Barbara Ann Corcoran.
How many siblings did Barbara Corcoran have? – Family – Education
She was the second of ten children born into a working-class Irish-Catholic family. Florence, her mother, was a stay-at-home mom. Corcoran’s father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., moved from job to job throughout her childhood. Her family had to rely on free food deliveries from a friendly local grocer at times. Corcoran recalls her father as a man who occasionally drank too much and treated her mother with contempt and condescension, especially when he was drunk.
Corcoran struggled in school and was later diagnosed with dyslexia. She started high school at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood after attending a local Catholic elementary school. She transferred to Leonia High School after failing several courses during her freshman year. She graduated with a D. She earned a degree in education from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971, faring better than she had in her previous education.
Barbara Corcoran Husband
She lives in Manhattan with her husband, retired Navy captain, and former FBI agent Bill Higgins, who served in the Gulf War. In 1988, the couple married. Corcoran gave birth to their son, Tom, using in vitro fertilization and an egg donated by her sister Florence in 1994. Kate, the couple’s adopted daughter, was born later.
Barbara Corcoran House
She paid $3.5 million for a 2,700-square-foot apartment in a Park Avenue co-op building in 2001. Corcoran paid $10 million for a penthouse unit on Fifth Avenue in 2015.
Barbara Corcoran Health
Corcoran suffers from dyslexia and was nicknamed “the dumb kid” by her teachers and classmates. Bullying, according to Corcoran, “pushed her to work harder and learn the skills she needed to succeed.”
Barbara Corcoran’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $100 million.
Did Barbara have a stroke?
Barbara suffered a massive stroke in March of 2017 while attending church. She recovered because someone noticed something was wrong and she received immediate assistance.
Barbara Corcoran Career
She taught for a year after graduating from college but soon moved on. By the age of 23, she had worked a total of 20 jobs, including a side job renting apartments in New York City. Her boyfriend persuaded her to work for a real estate company while she was a waitress. She wanted to be her own boss, so she co-founded The Corcoran-Simonè with her boyfriend, who loaned her $1,000, in 1973, while working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers’ real estate company in New York City. She divorced her boyfriend seven years later after he announced his intention to marry her secretary, and she went on to found her own firm, The Corcoran Group.
She also started publishing The Corcoran Report, a newsletter about real estate data trends in New York City, in the mid-1970s. Corcoran sold her company to NRT for $66 million in 2001. Corcoran was announced as a contestant for season 25 of Dancing with the Stars in September 2017, where she danced with Keo Motsepe.