Real Estate Deal of the Century

A one bedroom, 30,000 bath fixer-upper for $583,000. The Pontiac Silverdome. Yes, the former home of the Detroit Lions and the Pistons went for the cost of an upper middle class home. Wikipedia says it sits on 27 acres . The place cost close to $55 million to build.

According to CNN Money.com the big deal breaker was that the city of Pontiac needed to get the stadium off their books. The city had been paying $1.5 million in annual upkeep. Also, the city was encouraged by the new owner's plan to bring a soccer team to town.

5040 Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL

Chicago house for sale: Hyde Park, 8 Bedrooms, 3 full + 2 half-baths.

Don't bother asking how much; the owner is offering this property for sale, unpriced.

If you do decide to buy, you will be subjected to an intensive background check by the Secret Service.

More info here.

Golden Girls House Located

As a fan of the 80's era sitcom "The Golden Girls," I was excited to learn that the house used for the exterior shots actually exists - at 245 N. Saltaire Ave., Los Angeles!

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Above: StreetView of the house. It was used for the exterior shots in Season 1, but for subsequent seasons, a replica was used.

Above: The floor plan as guessed from the TV show. From http://www.flickr.com/photos/baccarati/2678083556/

The Most Expensive Suburbs

Congratulations, residents of Atherton, CA. You live in the country's most expensive suburb -- according to a list published by Business Week. Home prices in Atherton are at about $3.8 million (even in this economy, apparently) and the cost of living is 206% above the State average.

But still, there are some relative bargains in the U.S.'s Most Expensive Suburbs. For example, median home prices in Broadview, MT (near Billings) are $107,000; cost of living in West Fargo, ND is only 10% above the average in that state.

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Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie

How much space do you need?

I mean, really.

Check out apartmenttherapy.com's annual contest for "smallest coolest home" and think again.

picture: one view of Emily B.'s 300-sqft apartment in Chicago, on apartmenttherapy.com

Home At Last

I for one am pleased that Nadya Suleman is moving into a new house. It's common knowledge that her current residence, which she shares with her parents and six children, is about to be foreclosed on because her mother was $23,225 behind in mortgage payments.

The new house is in La Habra, a city in the northwest corner of Orange County, California, and was listed for $564,000. It has four bedrooms in its 2,583 square feet. The master bedroom has a walk-in closet. No word yet on how exactly it was financed, much less how room sharing is going to be decided or if the walk-in closet will be used as a bedroom.

Also, she's going to get substantial help raising the children from the non-profit organization Angels in Waiting.

Meanwhile, Nadya Suleman's publicist quit last Friday, citing disagreements with the Sulemans. Victor Munoz, who said that the Suleman family "totally depended" on him, was the second publicist to quit; the first publicist quit after receiving death threats.