Corcoran Broker Jumps To Brown Harris Stevens

A longtime member of the top-producing Carrie Chiang Team is leaving Corcoran to join Brown Harris Stevens.

After eight years with Chiang’s cohort, Andres Perea-Garzon is striking out on his own as an individual agent, the brokerage announced Monday.

Perea-Garzon’s move follows Compass’ acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate, Corcoran’s parent company, which closed earlier this year. Perea-Garzon cited the rise of private listings — of which Compass and its CEO Robert Reffkin have championed — and BHS’ stance on their place in the market among the reasons for his exit.

“We align very, very well in terms of our values,” Perea-Garzon said of BHS.

While at Corcoran, Perea-Garzon was a senior member of Chiang’s team, which previously ranked among New York City’s top brokers in The Real Deal’s annual ranking. Though it wasn’t in the latest edition’s top 50, the team placed 26th in 2025 with more than $70 million in listing-side trade volume.

Last year, Perea-Garzon, along with Chiang and others on the team, represented the seller of a 30-room townhouse at 973 Fifth Avenue in a $46 million deal, which closed in May. He and Chiang also represented the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the sale of a pair of townhouses on East 82nd Street, which closed in November for $29 million.

A spokesperson for Corcoran said the firm and its leaders “wish [Perea-Garzon] success going forward.” Perea-Garzon characterized his split from the brokerage as amicable and on “very good terms.”

“We’ve been together 7, 8 years, and I just wish him the best,” Chiang said, describing their split as friendly. “Unfortunately, I can’t keep him because he wants more free time and to do his own business,” she said, adding that her office was “very hectic” and had “very strict working hours.”

Before joining Corcoran in 2017, Perea-Garzon spent about a year at Compass, where he built a name for himself as the listing broker for several units at the Pierre. In 2014, he brokered a rental deal for a 39th-floor suite at the hotel for $500,000 a month, which broke the record for Manhattan’s priciest lease.

Perea-Garzon’s short stint at Compass followed four years at Town Residential, which shuttered two years after his departure.

Perea-Garzon is jumping to BHS on the heels of a few high-profile moves to the 150-year-old brokerage earlier this year and in late 2025, including Barbara Fox and the team behind Fox Residential Group. She and the 13 agents with the formerly independent firm joined in November.

Three months later, Raphael De Niro and eight agents on his top-producing team joined BHS from Douglas Elliman, where De Niro had worked as an agent for 20 years.