Debra LaChance is a broker at Compass, a two-year-old residential brokerage based in Manhattans Union Square. Before that, she led a major team at the much older Corcoran Group.

LaChances September 2014 departure from Corcoranalong with her four-member teamwas seen as quite the coup, in fact, for the younger firm. The teamwhich also included Denise LaChance (Debras sister), Ariel Brenner, Betsey Margolies and Kimberlee Knechtheld some $35 million in exclusives when it exited Corcoran. The jump to Compass from Corcoran mirrored other such moves around that time.

LaChance and her team focus primarily on deals in Manhattan, including rentals.

Before kicking off a real estate career, LaChance worked at CBS as director of the networks financial operations in New York. A Rhode Island native, she earned a degree in operations management from Boston University and an MBA from New York University.

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