Repost from HamptonRoads.com. By Tom Sheahan Prospective homebuyers are checking Internet sales listings more frequently and attending open houses in greater numbers, the founder and former owner of a major Manhattan brokerage firm said Tuesday. Both are signs that the nation’s residential real estate market is on the mend, said Barbara Corcoran, who launched her real estate business in 1973 with a $1,000 loan from her then-boyfriend. “I believe the bottom of the market was last year,” she said in an interview. Corcoran, who sold her firm for a reported $70 million, was at Regent University to deliver one of [...]

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Defining Entrepreneurship An Interview with Barbara Corcoran, Real Estate Mogul, Entrepreneur, and Speaker, Barbara Corcoran Inc. Editors’ Note Barbara Corcoran became one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country by parlaying a $1,000 loan into a $5-billion-dollar real estate business in New York City called The Corcoran Group. She sold the business in 2001 for $70 million. She is the author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, a national best-seller. Corcoran is the real estate contributor for NBC’s Today Show and a columnist for MORE magazine and Redbook. In addition, she is the [...]

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