Carrie Chiang Net Worth 2026: Corcoran Broker Career

No reputable publisher has estimated Carrie Chiang's net worth, so the $26.7 million figure previously shown here has been removed. Chiang is one of Manhattan's top luxury brokers: The Real Deal reported in 2019 that she had closed more than $6 billion in residential sales over her career at the Corcoran Group, which she joined at Barbara Corcoran's invitation in the late 1980s. Commissions on deals of that size, plus property she owns, are the basis of her wealth, but none of it has been totaled by a credible outlet.

What is Carrie Chiang's net worth?

There is no published estimate from Forbes, Bloomberg, Celebrity Net Worth or a major newspaper. Brokers' commission income is private, and Corcoran does not publish what its agents earn. What is on the record is her sales volume, which places her among the busiest agents in New York for more than three decades.

Carrie Chiang's yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

The old version of this page gave her a $900,000 yearly income, $75,000 a month and $2,500 a day. There is no source for any of those numbers, and they have been removed. Chiang works on commission, splits deals with her team and co-listing agents, and has not disclosed her take-home pay.

For scale only: The Real Deal reported that in 2018 Chiang and her partner Janet Wang ranked first among Manhattan listing agents with $384 million in exclusive listings, and that the team closed $174 million in sell-side deals that year. That is sales volume, not income.

Early life and family

In a 2019 interview with The Real Deal, Chiang said she was born in Shanghai and grew up in Hong Kong, where her father ran a plastics import-export business and she attended a Catholic convent school. She left before graduating to come to the United States, stayed with an aunt in Ohio, and studied chemistry with a minor in math at Kent State University.

After college she lived in Brazil for 12 years with her first husband, whose family had a flour-mill business there. She described herself as a housewife in those years. After the divorce she moved to New York with her children so they could go to school there.

Carrie Chiang's husband and children

The Real Deal lists her as remarried with three adult children. She said one of her sons and two daughters-in-law work on her team. The old page's details about her husband had no source and have been replaced with this.

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Education

Chiang studied chemistry, with a math minor, at Kent State University in Ohio, according to her Real Deal interview. She got into real estate with no work experience after a friend suggested it, and she later took Barbara Corcoran's course at New York University in 1988.

Professional life

Chiang started at a rental company to learn the business. In 1988, after meeting her through the NYU course, Barbara Corcoran offered her a job. Chiang told The Real Deal she delayed joining because she had deals in progress and would lose about $30,000 in commissions; Corcoran agreed to cover it.

Trump condos and the Riverside South project

Her first big run was selling condominiums for Donald Trump, earning her the nickname "condo queen." She said she sold 70 units at Trump Palace, where she also lives. In the 1990s she used her Hong Kong contacts to introduce Trump to a group of investors who put $100 million into his 74-acre Riverside Boulevard development. When that site was later sold for $1.76 billion, she sued over her role in the deal; she told The Real Deal that she won.

Townhouses and trophy deals

She later moved into townhouses and says she has sold about 100 of them. She called her biggest break a two-year assignment for the Lycée Français de New York, which involved six townhouses and five buyers. In 2018 she handled three adjoining Fifth Avenue buildings owned by the National Academy of Design, each of which sold for over $25 million.

The Hollywood Reporter named her one of New York's top 20 real estate agents in 2022. It reported that she was a listing agent on a $70.5 million penthouse sale at 432 Park Avenue, the city's largest sale of the year at that point, and that she had sold Gloria Vanderbilt's childhood home on the Upper East Side for $32.2 million. The Real Deal says her clients have included Barbra Streisand and Jim Carrey.

Recent listings (2025–2026)

She remains active at Corcoran. In July 2026 Corcoran's press roundup highlighted her $28.9 million listing at 9 East 82nd Street, an Upper East Side townhouse featured by Cottages & Gardens. Listing records also show her as agent on a Fifth Avenue mansion at 973 Fifth Avenue in early 2025.

Career timeline

Age, height and weight

The claim that she is 42 cannot be right: she began working with Corcoran in 1988 and has three adult children. Her date of birth, height and weight have not been published, so those figures were removed.

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Why no figure is given

Billions in sales volume do not translate directly into personal wealth. A broker's commission is split with the firm, co-brokers and team members, and taxes and costs come out of what is left. Chiang also owns property, including her Trump Palace home, which she said she bought for $1.3 million. Without her actual income and holdings, any net worth number would be invented.