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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'

Barbara Corcoran

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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Journalist
Television Producer
Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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