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The only home Marilyn Monroe ever owned, where she was found dead on Aug. 5, 1962, is on the market.

The Spanish colonial house, built in 1929, is located on a secluded cul-de-sac in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, which was also home for O.J. Simpson, celebrity scandal historians will note. Listed by David Offer of Prudential California Realty, the house, described as a “hidden jewel,” is only 2,600 square feet, relatively small for an A-list Los Angeles celebrity retreat, but the lot is a whopping 23,200 square foot, including a small pool and citrus groves.

Sunday’s Oscar tribute to late director John Hughes served as a reminder that the Ferris Bueller house is still on the market.

In the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the steel and glass house in the forested Chicago suburb of Highland Park was used as the home for Bueller’s friend, Cameron. A glass pavilion overlooking the wooded hillside served as a garage for Cameron’s father’s ill-fated Ferrari.

Known locally as “the Ben Rose House,” the property was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid, well-known protégés of Mies van der Rohe. The house was built in 1953 and the pavilion added a few years later.

Actress, activist and first-class Hollywood diva Sharon Stone has joined a long-list of Hollywood celebrities facing big losses in the real estate market.

Stone, who has lost some of her A-list movie glam in recent years, is offering a Beverly Hills estate for $8.995--$2 million less than she paid for the property in 2006, reports the always reliable go-to source for celebestate, RealEstalker.

It’s unclear whether Stone ever actually lived in the 4.85-acre estate, which includes a Mediterranean-style, 6,640-square-foot house with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, in addition to a two bedroom guest house. Must-have amenities include a “state of the art” media room, four fireplaces and a workout room,

U2 guitarist The Edge publically defended his 156-acre development on the California coastline this week, denying charges his plans will be an environmental disaster.

The Edge

“We just had this dream of building a house that was in perfect harmony with these hills,” Edge told the New York Times. “We see it as something that could be a bench mark of sustainability.”

Unfortunately for the legendary guitar hero and Bono sidekick, many of his neighbors in Malibu see theproject as a bench mark for destroying habitats and view corridors.

Edge’s plan calls for five homes ranging from 7,317 square feet to 12,004 square feet, including a 1,600-foot long road snaking up the hillside. Neighbors and conservationists are irritated by several aspects of the project, but the idea of the 20-foot wide road draws special criticism.

A newly built house trumpeted as personally designed by Cher sold at auction this week for $8.72 million, near the low-end of expectations.

The auctioneer earlier said the 8,800-square-foot house, part of the Hualalai Resort development, would likely sell for between $8 million and $12 million. Cher reportedly paid $2.9 million for the .76 acre site in 2009. The buyer was from Arizona, but wasn’t identified in a press release.

Concierge Auctions said they received 110 “interested buyer prospects” and 25 registered bidders for the property.

Take a second, close your eyes, and try to picture what a “Cher-designed” house should look like. Think lot’s of feathers. Fish nets. Maybe four or five tons of silver glitter. And then maybe add a few more feathers.

That’s what a Cher house should look like.

A just-completed house proudly promoted as “Cher-designed” on the island of Hawaii looks nothing like that.