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Celebs' homes won't sell: Take my mansion!

Mortgage trends » Celebs: Take my mansion, please!

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Having trouble unloading your house? Everywhere you look it seems there are more and more houses up for sale, but this might cheer you up -- even big-name celebrities are struggling to sell their homes!

Barry Manilow's beachfront mansion languishing on the market after 20 months? "Bond" star Pierce Brosnan's 3,412-square-foot oceanfront home idling on the market for almost a year? Believe it. Home sales are precariously low right now, and whether you live in a two-bedroom home or a beachfront bungalow, it's a buyer's market.

So, here are five bold-name celebrities whose homes have been on the market for well over a year without selling. Do you hear them wailing ... take my mansion, please!


 

 

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