A longtime member of the top-producing Carrie Chiang Group is leaving Corcoran to hitch Brown Harris Stevens.
After eight years with Chiang’s cohort, Andres Perea-Garzon is placing out on his personal as a person agent, the brokerage introduced Monday.
Perea-Garzon’s transfer follows Compass’ acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate, Corcoran’s mother or father firm, which closed earlier this yr. Perea-Garzon cited the rise of personal listings — of which Compass and its CEO Robert Reffkin have championed — and BHS’ stance on their place in the market among the many causes for his exit.
“We align very, very effectively when it comes to our values,” Perea-Garzon stated of BHS.
Whereas at Corcoran, Perea-Garzon was a senior member of Chiang’s group, which beforehand ranked amongst New York Metropolis’s high brokers in The Actual Deal’s annual rating. Although it wasn’t within the newest version’s high 50, the group placed 26th in 2025 with greater than $70 million in listing-side commerce quantity.
Final yr, Perea-Garzon, together with Chiang and others on the group, represented the vendor of a 30-room townhouse at 973 Fifth Avenue in a $46 million deal, which closed in Might. He and Chiang additionally represented the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork within the sale of a pair of townhouses on East 82nd Road, which closed in November for $29 million.
A spokesperson for Corcoran stated the agency and its leaders “want [Perea-Garzon] success going ahead.” Perea-Garzon stated he and the brokerage are on “superb phrases” after his resignation.
“We’ve been collectively seven, eight years, and I simply want him the perfect,” Chiang stated. “Sadly, I can’t hold him as a result of he desires extra free time and to do his personal enterprise,” she stated, including that her workplace was “very hectic” and had “very strict working hours.”
Earlier than joining Corcoran in 2017, Perea-Garzon spent a couple of yr at Compass, the place he constructed a reputation for himself because the itemizing dealer for a number of models on the Pierre. In 2014, he brokered a rental deal for a Thirty ninth-floor suite on the resort for $500,000 a month, which broke the report for Manhattan’s priciest lease.
Perea-Garzon’s quick stint at Compass adopted 4 years at City Residential, which shuttered two years after his departure.
Perea-Garzon is leaping to BHS on the heels of some high-profile strikes to the 150-year-old brokerage earlier this yr and in late 2025, together with Barbara Fox and the group behind Fox Residential Group. She and the 13 brokers with the previously unbiased agency joined in November.
Three months later, Raphael De Niro and eight brokers on his top-producing group joined BHS from Douglas Elliman, the place De Niro had labored as an agent for 20 years.
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