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☆ 'Shark Tank' star Barbara Corcoran refuses to fly first class — here are 5 items she packs to feel luxurious in economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Corcoran Group founder told Bloomberg that she almost never flies first class. "Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran said she prefers not to waste money — or miles — upgrading to first class when she travels by plane, and she has some tips to make economy feel like royalty. Her travels typically accumulate hundreds of thousands of miles, and she told Bloomberg she believes they're better spent on family. Instead, she makes an effort to make economy class feel more luxurious by packing some extra amenities of her own to take on the plane. I bring my own delicious food: a couple of cheeses, usually hard salami, and really nice artisan crackers that aren't soggy," Corcoran told Bloomberg.

☆ Barbara Corcoran says she was fired before the first season of ‘Shark Tank’—she got her job back with a simple email
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Barbara Corcoran experienced every professional's worst nightmare: She landed her dream job, only to have the offer rescinded. It's unusual for job offers to get rescinded after you've signed on the dotted line, but not impossible. Last summer, amid fears of a looming recession, large companies like Coinbase, Twitter and Redfin took back job offers before a number of employees could log on for their first days. It was primarily a reaction to inflation, co-founder and CEO of the recruiting company WizeHire Sid Upadhyay told CNBC Make It last June. Upadhyay recommended asking your network for job leads, revisiting other job offers and getting in touch with former employers.

☆ I make up to $100,000 a month asking strangers for a tour of their apartment on TikTok. I'm not doing this just to make money — seeing how people live fascinates me.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Stefano Montali | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I was making videos for seven years before this format started to take off. Expanding into brand dealsIt wasn't until a few months into creating my apartment series that I started making money from it. For example, it's important to me to be able to share people's stories from all walks of life — from Corcoran's $10 million apartment to someone who lives in a van. I'm just making videos that I enjoy with people who I want to make videos with. Overall, though, I enjoy making this content because I, along with my viewers, am so fascinated by how other people live.

☆ Taylor Swift fans are flocking to Cornelia Street after her reported breakup from Joe Alwyn. Here's a look inside her old apartment.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Taylor Swift may never walk Cornelia Street again, but that's not stopping fans from visiting her old apartment after reports that she and Joe Alywn have called it quits. Taylor Swift (left), the exterior of 23 Cornelia Street (right). "'I rent a place on Cornelia Street,' I say casually in the car," Swift sings in the first verse, and it's pretty literal. The pop superstar did rent 23 Cornelia Street for a few months between 2016 and 2017, according to People. Keep reading for a closer look at Swift's iconic Cornelia Street apartment.

☆ Barbara Corcoran says every successful person she knows has imposter syndrome: 'That's what drives them'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Corcoran, an entrepreneur and longtime investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," cited herself an example. And on "Shark Tank," it leads her to seek out entrepreneurs who question themselves. "Everyone's got self-doubt," Corcoran said. It may even be a shared experience among "Shark Tank" investors. Disclosure: CNBC owns the exclusive off-network cable rights to "Shark Tank."

☆ Jimmy Choo Co-Founder Tamara Mellon Sells New York City Penthouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Tamara Mellon, co-founder of the luxury shoe brand Jimmy Choo, has sold her New York City penthouse for $19.25 million, nearly nine years after putting it on the market, according to listing brokerage the Corcoran Group.

☆ 'Shark Tank' star Barbara Corcoran’s No. 1 piece of investing advice: Don't diversify, ‘money is meant to be spent’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The entrepreneur and longtime investor on ABC's "Shark Tank" says "money is meant to be spent" — but only in a handful of places. "One piece of advice people hear all the time, and I just don't believe it, is: 'Diversify, don't put all your eggs in one basket,'" Corcoran, 74, tells CNBC Make It. "I put all my money in the real estate basket, my brokerage firm, and everything in there went to buying properties." Corcoran says she's built "a lot of wealth" by investing carefully and watching the market, but not worrying about investing in across different industries. She specifically recommends the real estate approach for young people looking to invest, even if means asking their families for financial help at first.

Christopher Willard | Walt Disney Television | Getty ImagesOn the advantage of being an underdog: I grew my business in a man's world. There were no businesses in New York City, especially in real estate, that were owned by women. There weren't any women role models, and the men weren't very forthcoming [with advice]. When I was just starting out, I went to a community business event and none of the men would even talk to me. On why she likes to partner with women in business: Women are more willing to listen [than men], and they're not as cocky they'll be an instant success.

☆ Barbara Corcoran shares her simple yet effective negotiating strategy: It's about 'ego and timing,' not 'price'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Negotiation really has to do with ego and timing," Corcoran tells CNBC Make It. Roughly three decades ago, Corcoran was approached with an offer to sell her real estate business The Corcoran Group, and she was interested in cashing out, she says. So, when real estate company NRT offered her $22 million for The Corcoran Group roughly 10 years later, in 2001, she quickly submitted her counteroffer — asking for $66 million instead. "As a real estate broker running 1,000 sales agents, I had to teach them negotiating skills," Corcoran says. But the trend dissipates as women gain negotiating experience, noted a 2015 moderator analysis published in The Psychological Bulletin.

☆ Barbara Corcoran says meeting Mark Cuban was her 'most embarrassing moment' on 'Shark Tank' — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

You never get a second chance at a first impression — which Barbara Corcoran learned the day she met her "Shark Tank" co-star Mark Cuban. That initial encounter was Corcoran's "most embarrassing moment on 'Shark Tank,'" the Corcoran Group founder said in a recent TikTok video outlining the incident. "I look at the guy next to me, and it's the luggage guy sitting in the seat next to me," she said. Cuban, the billionaire owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, joined "Shark Tank" as guest Shark in 2011, during its second season, and became a main investor a season later. Disclosure: CNBC owns the exclusive off-network cable rights to "Shark Tank."

☆ Barbara Corcoran reveals she mistook fellow 'Shark Tank' star Mark Cuban for a bellboy when they first met
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Barbara Corcoran said her most embarrassing moment on "Shark Tank" was how she met Mark Cuban. The 73-year-old businesswoman has built a following on TikTok sharing anecdotes about her career in real estate and her 14 seasons on ABC's "Shark Tank." It wasn't until they were sitting in the iconic "Shark Tank" chairs that she realized the bellboy was none other than her new co-star. "I look at the guy next to me, and it's the luggage guy sitting next to me," Corcoran said. The "luggage guy" replied, "I'm Mark Cuban.

☆ They Wanted a Two-Bedroom in Queens for $500,000 — Dishwasher Optional. Which Option Did They Buy?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Shortly after Covid-19 hit, Michelle de Vera and Serhan Ayhan settled into a one-bedroom in Woodside, Queens. Ms. de Vera, who then worked in the airline industry, had an easy trip via public transportation to the Queens airports. She would spend hours on video calls for work while Mr. Ayhan, 36, clanked in the kitchen and tried to stay out of camera range. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]Their criteria included a kitchen — with a dishwasher — that was suitable for making dough,, and space for hosting pizza nights. In every apartment they visited, Mr. Ayhan checked to see whether the oven was big enough to accommodate his pizza peel.

☆ Barbara Corcoran shares how she created a real estate 'buying frenzy' that made her $1 million in a single day
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Corcoran said on TikTok she sold 88 "terrible apartments" in New York City in a single day. According to Corcoran, the sales took place amid a turbulent economy in the early 1990s when her real estate company Corcoran Group was struggling to stay afloat. "I had 88 apartments that were sitting on the market for three years." When the last unit of the nearly 100 apartments sold that day, Corcoran said there were still 50 people waiting in line. Corcoran's key takeaway from the strategy: "In business, everybody wants what everybody wants, but nobody wants what nobody wants."

☆ Barbara Corcoran says she made $1 million in a day selling apartments nobody wanted: I 'created a buying frenzy’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In a recent TikTok video, the co-star of ABC's "Shark Tank" told her followers about a crucial moment in her real estate career, when she was at risk of bankruptcy. The problem: Her Manhattan-based real estate company The Corcoran Group owned 88 empty "terrible apartments" that "nobody wanted" to buy. "The day of the sale, I had 150 people waiting in line for those 88 apartments. More than three decades later, the lesson still matters: "Everybody wants what everybody wants, but nobody wants what nobody wants," Corcoran said. A decade after avoiding bankruptcy by unloading those 88 apartments, Corcoran sold her company to real estate company NRT for $66 million.

☆ A mystery buyer wanted an 800-square-foot trailer in the Hamptons so badly that they offered a staggering $3.75 million for it
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A property in the Hamptons' famed Montauk Shores trailer park is poised to sell for $3.75 million. The current most expensive trailer in Montauk Shores sold for $1.85 million in 2022. Montauk Shores counts hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb and Vitamin Water cofounder Darius Bikoff as residents. If the $3.75 million deal goes through, it would beat the park's sales record by nearly $2 million — surpassing the record set by a $1.85 million sale in 2022. Gold currently reps another property in Montauk Shores, a neighboring trailer pictured here that's on the market for $2 million.

☆ They Didn’t Need Fancy Amenities or a Garden, but Closets Would Be Nice. Which Brooklyn Condo Did They Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Joyce Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Now our irises are all over the neighborhood,” said Mr. Mercanti, a theater professor and director at Pace University. “Sometimes I watch horror movies, and that drives Joe crazy if he is in the bedroom listening to folk rock,” Mr. Mercanti said. “A bedroom door was a necessity, but everything else was kind of negotiable,” Mr. Mercanti said. They weren’t interested in fancy amenities and were willing to forgo garden space — Mr. Ferrari had plenty of plants to tend at his workplace. They considered some ground-floor duplexes, which did often have garden space, but in one case they saw water on the floor of a basement utility room, which was enough to scare them off.

☆ Microsoft is chill with employees using ChatGPT — just don’t share ‘sensitive data’ with it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft warned employees against sharing "sensitive data" with ChatGPT. Leaked internal communications revealed that Microsoft's CTO office told employees that using ChatGPT is fine. "Companies and employees are all scrambling to find out the exact rules around using ChatGPT for work." He added: "The interesting thing here is that Microsoft is a big partner and investor of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. In theory, Microsoft stands to gain when ChatGPT collects more data and improves its technology.

☆ The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home's asking price?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users get six tries to guess the asking price of a house, which Weitzbuch selects by hand daily. Your real estate prowess can finally be put to the test with Housle, a new daily game created by Los Angeles reality-TV producer Doug Weitzbuch. Modeled after Wordle, the massively popular game where users guess a five-letter word of the day, Housle tests you on the asking prices of homes for sale. Echoing Wordle's six guesses, Housle gives users six tries to predict the listing price of a house from any part of the country. Weitzbuch is also an avid Wordle player, sharing his daily score with four friends in a group chat dubbed "Wordle Nerdles."

☆ How managers can help make their workers happier in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This matters for companies, in part because more engaged workers are linked to things businesses want — things like productivity and profitability. Employees who feel supported by their bosses are also more likely to feel happier and less likely to have chronic health conditions. The takeaway for managers is clear: Connect each employee's work to the company's larger purpose. Empathy also plays a big role in making workers feel more engaged at work. Business-leadership researchers at McKinsey & Co. said in a 2021 report that more managers needed to prioritize mental health.

☆ ‘I Was Happy to Never See That Cat Again.’ When Pets Have It Out for the Real-Estate Agent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Robyn A. Friedman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

Matt Vinci, real-estate agent, The Corcoran Group, New York CityAbout three years ago, I was representing the seller of a three-bedroom apartment in an older co-op building on the Upper West Side. Two kept to themselves, but the third was an older, grumpier cat. I yelled and stepped back, but the cat kept lunging at me and swatting at me with its paws. After about 20 minutes, the cat was still hissing and swatting at the sliding door, so I decided to try barking like a dog, which finally got the cat to back up. I gingerly opened the balcony door, grabbed my stuff and got out.

☆ It Looked Like the Perfect Apartment, but It Didn’t Pass the Smell Test
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Amy Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Q: Have you ever had a listing that looked great but smelled bad? Julia Boland, associate real-estate broker, principal of the Boland Team at the Corcoran Group, New York CityThe owner was a friend of mine, but I had no idea she had a pig. She had a beautiful condominium on the Upper East Side: a three-bedroom duplex. The second bedroom, which had its own balcony, was Milly’s room. Milly was a 190-pound Berkshire pig, white with black spots.

☆ Taylor Swift's iconic Cornelia Street apartment is on the market for $45,000 a month. Here's a look inside.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Cornelia Street," the ninth song off of Taylor Swift's seventh studio album "Lover," alludes to an apartment the star once owned in New York City's West Village. Taylor Swift (left), the exterior of 23 Cornelia Street (right). The pop superstar did rent 23 Cornelia Street for a few months between 2016 and 2017, according to People. "It's about the things that took place and the memories that took place on that street […] all the nostalgia," she said. Keep reading for a closer look at 23 Cornelia Street and for more information about the song's connection to it.

☆ These Real-Estate Pros Took Their Deals to the Grave (Literally)
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Amy Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Estate sales are usually complicated, with families and lawyers, but I’ve never experienced anything like this. Basically, the title company wouldn’t clear us to close because they couldn’t find the death certificates of the owners’ deceased grandparents. They had died in the 1960s, and in a very typically Brooklyn-Italian situation, the son had inherited the house. When the son and his wife died, that’s when the children put the house on the market. We had the death certificates of the sellers’ parents, but they weren’t on the title.

☆ Insider Life: Rich nab NYC penthouses — Rolex's rise — Lavish post-pandemic weddings
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-20 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

We're back just in time for the weekend with some of our best stories spanning real estate, retail, and lifestyle. Today, we're bringing you the latest on NYC's penthouse sales, Rolex's rise to the top, and lavish $200,000 post-pandemic weddings. Rolex's path from humble origins to the top luxury watch brand. Gary Hershorn/Getty ImagesRich people are scooping up more New York City penthouses now than any other time in the last 14 years. Here's what that means for Manhattan real estate.

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