Hot Home News: Donald Trump, Casey Stengel & Esquire Bachelor Pad

Online, January 8, 2013 (Newswire.com) - This week's Top 10 homes spotlight at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com includes a look at the 2011 Esquire Bachelor Pad of the Year, recently reduced from $25 million to $19 million. The apartment is in the 1915 landmark Clock Tower Building in Brooklyn and features four 14' clock face windows and postcard views from the Hudson River and Statue of Liberty to Manhattan. One thing that is missing though is Charlotte, Esquire's life-sized digital lady ghost who floated through the condo sitting at the bar, swimming through the atrium and walking along the walls of the lounge. It is the most expensive apartment in Brooklyn, still looking for a buyer.

In other home news:

Call him Casey, Dutch or The Old Perfessor, the man was a one-of-a-kind gem with a quick wit and the ability to turn a booing crowd into cheers by tipping his cap and letting a sparrow fly out. Casey Stengel's longtime 1925 Mediterranean-styled house in Glendale recently sold to Emmy nominated The Office actress Jenna Fischer for $1,900,000.

Donald Trump has been on a golf buying craze. He currently owns a dozen courses including the Doral Golf Resort in Miami that he bought last year for $150 million (in 2007, Morgan Stanley paid $501 million for Doral), a course he is currently developing in the Bronx, and his pet project - Trump International Golf Links in Scotland that Trump claims is "the greatest golf course in the world." His latest deal is the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa in Jupiter, Florida.

Also, the house that was voted the Wall Street Journal's House of 2012 might make you think you're in Bali, but it is actually in suburban Chicago; and a beautiful French-style estate is going to auction in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

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