Barbara Ann Corcoran[2] (born March 10, 1949)[3] is an American businesswoman,[4] investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality.

She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter exited the company.

She has been featured on Larry King Live and NBC's Today show, and hosts The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC.

After flunking several courses during her freshman year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School, where she graduated as a D student.

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 lent $1,000.

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

[25][26] Corcoran lives in Manhattan with her husband, Bill Higgins, a retired Navy captain and former FBI agent who participated in the Gulf War.