The Priciest Celebrity Homes on the Market This Year

Bob and Dolores Hope's Estate
Palm Springs, California
Asking Price: $50 Million
The California desert resort city of Palm Springs is famous for its drool-worthy modernist architecture, but iconic actor Bob Hope’s 23,000-square-foot estate has always stood out from the pack when it comes to unique aesthetic and wild design. The six-bedroom, 10-bathroom lair – designed by legendary architect John Lautner – officially hit the market for a whopping $50 million last week. The look of the home (nestled on a hillside that you can actually hike up if you’re planning a visit to the area) – has been likened to a mushroom, but Lautner actually created the roof-line design to resemble a volcano. The estate features amazing views of the surrounding Coachella Valley, a boulder that juts into the living room, pool, hot tub, outdoor putting green, and a covered terrace that can seat 300 (yes 300!) for dinner. Lautner first designed the house in 1973, but after the initial frame of the home was completed, it burned to the ground in a construction fire. The glass, steel, and concrete home was finally completed in 1980, but Hope’s wife Dolores had reportedly had made so many changes to the interior plans of the structure that Lautner distanced himself from the project. Dolores died in 2011 at age 102, while Bob passed away eight years earlier when he was 100.

Alex Rodriguez
Miami, Florida
Asking Price: $38 million

After buying a waterfront lot in 2010 and spending a reported $24 million to have the 9-bedroom home, 13-bath mansion custom built, A-Rod first tried selling the stunning contemporary pad in August 2012, just a year after taking possession of it. In January, however, the New York Yankees third baseman took his 20,000-square-foot home off the market, according to real estate website Zillow. He's since reportedly rented it out for a mind-boggling $125,000 a month. The wealthy renter gets city skyline views and a ridiculous amount of outdoor space, including expansive covered terraces, a “vanishing edge” heated pool, full outdoor kitchen, and rooftop deck, all on 275 feet of water frontage with two docks. And there are no privacy issues to worry about. The home is gated, walled, and has 16 security cameras.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
New York, New York
Asking Price: $24.5 million
Kids, When you grow up, make sure you host a morning talk show. If you succeed, you might get to live in a New York City apartment that looks like this one. Ripa and her hubby Mark Consuelos' 6,900-square-foot Lower Manhattan home includes a private roof deck, totals a whopping 2,500 square feet (most Manhattanites are jumping for joy if they get a tiny balcony), and not only includes a fireplace, hot tub, and grill area, but also a flatscreen TV hung above multiple outdoor couches, and an outside shower adjacent to a home gym. According to real estate site Zillow, Ripa and Consuelos purchased the two-floor home for $9 million back in 2005 and spent two years renovating the place, which features 12-foot ceilings, tons of windows, stained oak flooring, five bedrooms, and four full baths.

Madonna
Beverly Hills, California
Asking Price: $22.5 million
They don’t call her the Material Girl for nothing. Madonna currently has another mansion on the market, her 9-bedroom, 15-bath Beverly Hills mansion. According to Redfin, how much the 54-year-old paid for the house back in 2003 was never disclosed, but the real estate website estimates the purchase price to have been somewhere around $14 million. The 17,000-square-foot abode contains two living rooms, a two-story dining room, a “junior dining room”, two guest houses, and a 500-foot gated tree-lined driveway, all on 1.25 acres. And you know you’ve really arrived when your house has “assistants’ offices,” as this one does. And don't forget the tennis court, screening room, private gym, and “resort-size” pool.

Madonna
New York City
Asking Price: $23.5 million
Though Madge purchased a single unit in the Upper West Side's prestigious Harperley Hall back in the mid 1980s, over the years she's bought two more neighboring apartments in the building, combining them into what is now a 6-bedroom, 8-bathroom duplex, which takes up the 5th and 6th floors of the building and totals a spacious 6,000 square feet. The place features great rooms on both floors with French doors leading to outdoor "Juliet" balconies, five wood-burning fireplaces, and those priceless park views. According to the New York Post, the "Vogue" songstress was sued in 2009 by an upstairs neighbor, who claimed that Madonna played her tunes so loudly that the walls shook for up to three hours a day. The building's board reportedly threatened to evict the famous resident and she settled the lawsuit in 2011.