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Real Estate Interviews

Barbara Corcoran: Power Broker to Powerful Motivator

by Ronald Sklar | December 13, 2010
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Waitress and straight-D student Barbara Corcoran started her real-estate company, The Corcoran Group, with a friendly loan for a thousand dollars.  In 2001, she sold it for $70 million. The $5 billion company is still in operation today, and one of the biggest power players in New York real estate. Since then, Barbara has found [...]

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Foreclosures

The Future Of Foreclosure Actions???

by Tom Koziol | June 20, 2008

Someone once said to be careful of what you wish for as you may just get it. The voices clamoring for court help with foreclosures are getting their day in the sun in New York at least according to an article that appeared in the June 19th New York Times. If you read the article, [...]

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Commentary

Giving Thanks & Giving Back

by Richard Warren | November 20, 2007

Thanksgiving is a time of year where people will traditionally pause and reflect and give thanks for their good fortune. For me this is relatively easy because I have so much to be thankful for. Many people are not as fortunate, some a victim of circumstance and others suffering the consequences of poor choices that [...]

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New York Real Estate

Fortress Manhattan: No Real Estate “Crisis” There

by Charles Feldman | October 16, 2007

There is a land where the normal physics of real estate does not hold sway; a place so special, those who reside there are seemingly inoculated from the everyday concerns of mere mortals. The housing bubble may burst; the credit may crunch; the mortgage industry may go so far south that Bolivia would be akin [...]

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