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Barbara Corcoran: NAR Ruling 'Not a Big Deal' So Far
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Barbara Corcoran: NAR Ruling ‘Not a Big Deal’ So Far

Barbara Corcoran founded her real estate company, The Corcoran Group, in 1980. Over the next two decades, she grew her business into one of the largest brokerage firms in Manhattan before selling it for $66 million in 2001. In an interview with Entrepreneur, Corcoran weighed in on the National Association of Realtors (NAR) ruling, a...

Barbara Corcoran: Ask This Question Before Selling Your Home
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Barbara Corcoran: Ask This Question Before Selling Your Home

Mortgage rates dropped to a two-year low last week, hovering around 6.08%, before inching up to 6.12% on Thursday. Barbara Corcoran, founder of real estate firm The Corcoran Group and longtime “Shark Tank” investor, says that the immediate impact will bring more buyers and sellers to the market, but there is still a big issue....

Barbara Corcoran Says She Fired Her Mother: Business Lessons
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Barbara Corcoran Says She Fired Her Mother: Business Lessons

Barbara Corcoran remembers when her real estate firm, The Corcoran Group, was in a tight spot. Mortgage rates were around 18%, placing the date around October 1981. She knew she had to make job cuts. “My mother said to me, ‘You’re going to have to fire people, right?’ She wasn’t a businesswoman, she was a...