Robert De Niro may be short, but he plays big when it comes to real estate. In September the actor rented the most expensive apartment (steel magnate Leroy Schecter's 35th-floor combo) in the city's most expensive building, 15 Central Park West. Part of the combo was formerly rented by disgraced baseball star Alexander Rodriguez. De Niro's rent? Oh, $125,000/month.

Obscenely gorgeous couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen want to rent out their New York City pied-a-terre. Of course, the full-floor three-bedroom is located on the 47th floor of a previously scandal-plagued skyscraper on Madison Square Park, cost $14 million when they bought it, and can be leased for $40,000 per month (plus an extra $2,500 for furniture picked out by a star quarterback and a supermodel).

Janet Jackson's ornate three-bedroom, 3.5 bathroom spread on the 34th floor of Columbus Circle's Trump International tower came up for lease in early February, asking $35,000/month. It rented three days later.

In September, Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd put his four-bedroom, four-bathroom condo in the Aldyn on the Upper West Side on the rental market for $22,000/month. He probably didn't need it because he's not coaching the Nets anymore, eh? Despite his checkered past, it found a tenant just fine.

The West Village two-bedroom apartment formerly occupied by the late great actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who tragically died at home earlier this year in a drug-related incident, entered the rental market in March asking $10,500/month. It leased one day later.

Back in June, the lilting singer-songwriter put her 2,500-square-foot Soho loft, one of five units in a co-op building on Lafayette Street, on the rental market for $17,950/month. It's still up for lease, now at the slightly cheaper rate of $17,500. We spy three pianos, which seems appropriate.

The First Family of New York moved to Gracie Mansion in June, leaving their Park Slope home behind. The de Blasios put the 3BR/1BA on the rental market in October for $4,975/month, and it leased, oh, in about a week "to an area couple who says they really just wanted more space and a garden."

Despite the fact that there is no actual listing, actress Demi Moore wants to sell her "stunning" triplex in the celeb-favorite San Remo for a whopping $75 million. The price tag apparently also includes a ground-floor two-bedroom. Please, Demi, give us a peek at the place?

In one of the ritziest apartment buildings in the city came this ritzy, art-filled listing. In July, hedge fund guy David Ganek put his incredible duplex in 740 Park on the market for $44 million. The apartment, most notably, was the childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from ages two through seven (her grandfather was also the developer of the building in 1929). The ask hasn't budged since it listed. Maybe throw in a Warhol, Ganek?

After being de-listed in January of 2014, Jon Bon Jovi's Soho penthouse returned in April with new listing photos, a new broker, and a new asking price. Back in March 2013, the rock star originally wanted $42 million for the enormous duplex. Six months later, the price was chopped to $39.9M. Then came the January re-listing for $37.5M, and, finally broker Leonard Steinberg switched companies and re-re-listed the place with a slew of new photos and the same ask. It's co-listed with Elliman, and, yup, STILL on the market with that ask.

The mystery buyers who shelled out $28.5 million for photographer Annie Leibovitz's trio of West Village townhouses emerged as Lauren Bush Lauren, granddaughter of George H.W. Bush and niece of George W. Bush, and her husband David Lauren, son of Ralph Lauren. Leibovitz accumulated the very, very lovely 13-fireplace spread for $6.1 million between 2002 and 2003. Whoa, profit.

Beautiful starlet Lauren Bacall passed away this year at the age of 89, and subsequently, her nine-room, Central Park-facing apartment at the Dakota entered the real estate market for the first time in decades. Bacall bought it back in 1961 for a couple of tens of thousands of dollars (reports vary from between $28,000 and $48,000), and it's now asking $26,000,000.

A philanthropist and the world's 14th wealthiest person, Walmart heiress Alice Walton, paid $25 million for a duplex condo on the Upper East Side. The apartment has 52 windows, and a real estate-savvy prior owner.

This year, anti-gentrification pundit Spike Lee officially put his incredibly historic Upper East Side townhouse on the market. He bought the 8,292-square-foot home from Jasper Johns (yes, that one) in 1998 for $16.6 million. In January, he wanted $32 million. In April, the price came down to $28.5M, and we got another look inside via different photos. In June, the ask dropped even further, to $24.5M. Maybe history and celebrity don't help when the house is this pricey?

Though the deed doesn't have the name to prove it, but an LLC intead, the buyer of The Whitman's absolutely bonkers penthouse facing Madison Square Park (personal putting green included) is reportedly Jenny From The Block herself. At The Whitman, which only has four apartments but a lot of star power, Lopez would live above Chelsea Clinton and NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon. The price? $20,161,350.

TV personality Kelly Ripa and her husband, actor Mark Consuelos, originally listed their Soho penthouse for $24.5 million in January of 2013. It didn't sell at that price, so the five-bedroom with a capacious outdoor terrace and hot tub endured a series of PriceChops before finally entering contract in May and closing for $20M in September.

Celebrity real estate power couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick cut the asking price of their Greenwich Village townhouse... all the way down to $19.95 million. The 25-foot-wide, seven-fireplace home, which the couple renovated but apparently never lived in, was asking as much as $25 million at one point, but it's now veering dangerously close to the $19 million they paid in 2011.

. The co-op, featured on the cover of Architectural Digest in 1991, was listed in April of 2013 for $25 million, got PriceChopped a month later to $19.95 million, and ultimately sold to Born for $18M. Whew.

When music mogul/"X Factor" judge L.A. Reid's full-floor apartment in 515 Park Avenue went into contract in December of 2013, who would have thought the buyer would turn out to be none other than the craziest apartment decorator in the game, legendary Broadway producer Hal Prince? Well, it was, and Prince paid $16.5 million for Reid's lair. Here's hoping he'll do it up real colorfully, like that theatrical townhouse he sold in 2013.

Famed sportscaster Marv Albert has owned a sprawling duplex penthouse near Lincoln Center since 1996, when he purchased it for $2.393 million. In May, he listed it for $16.5M, hoping the kitted-out 1,500-square-foot terrace might lure a buyer. It did, by October, but only after the price had been chopped to $14.9 million. The unit is still in contract, so the final sale price is TBD.

Joining Leonardo DiCaprio at the health-obsessed Delos building in the Village is holistic health and New Age guru Deepak Chopra, who spent $14.5 million for a 3,663-square-foot 3BR/2.5BA home.

In one of the most high-profile sales of the year, an absolutely ridiculous five-bedroom townhousethat entered the market in April of 2013 sold—to none other than pint-sized fashionista Mary-Kate Olsen and her older beau, Olivier Sarkozy. The bonkers house includes the following: 1) a portico, loggia, and a private garden with fountain; 2) a hall of mirrors; 3) a ballroom; 4) a rooftop exercise pool; 5) a built-in garage; 6) an artist's studio; and 7) an elevator. Their brand-new love nest cost $13.5 million, and they're planning a reno.

Back at the Upper West Side celebrity magnet, the El Dorado, action star Bruce Willis put his three-bedroom on the market for $13 million—and found a buyer in less than a week. Willis and his model wife bought the place less than two years ago for $8.695M from U2 bassist Adam Clayton, but they've apparently given it a renovation since then. More photos? Over here.

Enter Jonathan Safran Foer's extremely nice and incredibly expensive limestone townhouse in Park Slope, which he and his now-separated wife, writer Nicole Krauss, put on the market for $14.5 million in October of 2013. The Brooklyn townhouse market may be hot, but not that hot, and it re-listed in June for a discounted $13 million. The pretty, pretty place went off the market a week ago.

In June, television mogul and curmudgeon Simon Cowell purchased a three-bedroom home for his new family (a.k.a. a $10.85 million "love nest") at Peter Pennoyer's prewar-looking new construction project on the Upper East Side.

The Rolling Stones guitarist and wife Patti Hansen certainly found satisfaction in their real estate search, which culminated in February with the purchase of a previously combined four-bedroom, four-bathroom penthouse on Fifth Avenue near Washington Square Park. He and his wife paid $10.5 million; the apartment had been on the market since December 2012 and suffered a few PriceChops since then.

As of this summer, Leonardo DiCaprio officially owns a $10 million 2BR/2.5BA condo in the wellness-conscious Delos building in Greenwich Village that he helped develop. For die-hard Leo fans with $40 million to spare, the Delos's penthouse is still up for grabs.

After a year and a half on the market, in December comedian and talk show maven Rosie O'Donnell finally unloaded her Greenwich Village penthouse for $9 million. It's a duplex in a former St. Vincent's Hospital building, and O'Donnell was originally aiming high with an $11M ask.

The woman who created The View just paid $8.865 million (that's about $200K over asking) for one of the penthouse units at the El Dorado, which is pretty much a celebrity magnet. The three-bedroom apartment Vieira has two giant terraces. Also on the deed is her husband, CBS journalist Richard Cohen. Photos, this way.

In February, Oscar-winning actress Holly Hunter—who has notably appeared in The Piano, The Firm, and Thirteen—has put her lower Fifth Avenue pad on the market for $8.7 million. The very charming place got PriceChopped in March, to $8.25M, and finally sold in July for $7.6M.

In August, actress Meg Ryan bought actor Hank Azaria's 4,000-square-foot Soho loft for $8 million. Before Azaria, the loft was owned by artist Cindy Sherman, so this apartment must have some kind of Celebrities Only policy. Azaria, luckily, has a new, very nice place to live, since he bought a $9.2 million co-op on Central Park West a few months prior to this transaction.

Leonardo DiCaprio: he acts; he buys copious amounts of real estate. Just months after DiCaprio bought into the health-centric Delos building in the Village, he also snagged the two-bedroom unit next to the 2 River Terrace apartment he's occupied since 2008. That's $10M spent at the Delos, and $8M in Battery Park City. Must be nice to be a Wolf of Wall Street actor.

Michelle Williams bought an "insanely beautiful" Boerum Hill house with the late Heath Ledger back in 2005 for $3.6 million. With plans to move to LA for more acting opportunities, Williams put the six-bedroom on the market back in September for $7.5M. It just sold for a whopping $8.8 million because, well, look at it.

Former Yankees (and Mets, but whatever) pitcher and current YES Network analyst David Cone put his four-bed, three-and-a-half-bath Upper East Side apartment on the market in July. The asking price was, and is still holding strong at, $6.495 million, almost double the $3.76 million Cone paid for the place in 2011.

Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based Kevin Huvane, a.k.a. "Badass Hollywood Agent Extraordinaire," bought a pied-a-terre at the new-old General Theological Seminary condo conversion in West Chelsea. He paid $6,420,000 for the 3BR/3.5BA apartment, which comes with a key to a private garden and is just one of the high-end residences molded out of the 19th-century building.

Former all-star hockey player Eric Lindros would like to be the latest famous person to depart celebrity haven 1 Morton Square. He listed his 3BR/3.5BA in March for $6.75M, and it remains on the market after a late November PriceChop to an even $6 million.

Four Seasons vocalist, keyboard player, and songwriter Bob Gaudio and his wife Judy, who actually co-wrote the catchy ditty "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" as well as "Who Loves You," tossed their San Remo two-bedroom, two-bath on the market for $5.95 million in July. The couple purchased the place for $3.65 million back in 2007. It was on the market until a day ago.

In November, Brooklyn-born actress Debra Messing, best known for her role on Will & Grace, made a move to the Upper East Side, paying $5.45 million for a lovely full-floor co-op on East End Avenue and 84th Street. Photos? Right here.

An East 52nd Street townhouse that once belonged to R&B singer/composer/producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds hit the market for $5.25 million in February. The basement recording studio must've sealed the deal for MetLife exec Ricardo A. Anzaldua, who paid $5M for the place in July. Or not, since he's going to use it as a wine cellar.

Tribeca's 155 Franklin is so full of action this year, what with Steven Soderbergh selling and Taylor Swift buying. Then there's sometimes-elf Orlando Bloom, who bought a three-bedroom loft there in June for $4.875 million. Those beamed ceilings really do it for celebrities, eh?

This year, the director also wanted rid of his full-floor 3BR at in Chelsea, which hit the market in June asking $5 million. A bedroom is separated by a pretty nifty retractable, garage door-like divider. The unit was taken off the market at the end of November.

In November, the 33-year-old hotel heiress—who is also a DJ, perfume purveyor, and overall "rich girl" (hey, the shirt says it, not us)—paid $4.9 million for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom penthouse near Astor Place. The duplex with a roof deck is one of just four apartments in the Broadway McKenna building, which was converted to luxury apartments earlier this year. Let's hope it fits her seven dogs.

It may be too soon to tell how basketball legend Phil Jackson is doing in his new position as New York Knicks President, but he's doing great in his new position as Guy Looking For a New York City Apartment, since in August he landed a three-bed, three-bath co-op in Midtown. Jackson paid $4.85 million, just under the original $4.995 million asking price.

In January, actor Alan Cumming bought an old East Village townhouse for $4.65 million. Before he nabbed it, the four-story, 20-foot-wide house had changed hands only once in the past 70 years. The house was listed in August of 2013 for $4.8 million and later upped its ask to $5.1 million. Cumming got a nice discount there.

In August, the rumor went as follows: a pair of newlyweds—Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo—were reportedly in contract to purchase a classic Soho loft. The listing showed lots of columns and a $4.55 million ask; the deed, dated a week later, shows that an LLC named ALBP Property closed on the 3BR/2BA for 4,500,000. A(dam)L(evine)B(ehati)P(rinsloo). Gotcha.

After floundering on and off the market since September of 2013, Les Misérables actress Anne Hathaway has finally unloaded her $4.25 million loft in Dumbo's famed Clocktower Building. Hathaway reportedly used the 2,592-square-foot two-bedroom as, quite possibly, the largest walk-in-closet in all of New York City.

Last year, Neil Patrick Harris paid a record-setting $4 million for a four-story, 8,000-square-foot townhouse at 2036 Fifth Avenue in Harlem. This summer, he, his partner, and his two kids moved in—and are currently mid-renovation. (It's apparently not fun, or so says the hilarious NPH.)

The celeb-studded condo building at 225 Lafayette Street, at the border of Soho and Nolita, lost at least one important resident. Singer-songwriter/semi-professional woo-er John Mayer sold his 2BR/2.5BA corner unit for $3,910,000. He bought back in 2005 for $2,173,690—not a bad profit.

Well, that was a bait-and-switch. Back in August, Very Serious Actor Jonah Hill listed his Very Serious Soho Loft, for which he paid $2.65 million only two years ago, for $3.795 million. Then he took it off the market. What a let-down.

The gorgeous 1880 Clinton Hill townhouse once owned by the great jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis will now be home to another great: Aliya LeeKong, culinary creative director and a chef at the Michelin-starred Junoon. LeeKong and her husband paid the full ask of $3.75 million.

Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper, err, Jim Parsons bought not one, but two apartments at the Gramercy Park condo conversion where he already owns two other places. The most recent buys are a penthouse for $2.8 million, and another unit for $815,000. Parsons, who has purchased all the homes along with his boyfriend Todd Spiewak, first bought in the building back in 2011, and that was a 12th-floor two-bedroom for $1.8 million. Later, the pair bought another place for $2.8 million on the same floor. That's a total of $8.2M in purchases within four years.

The lead singer of 1990's Britpop band Oasis would like you to buy his Union Jack-draped Essex House apartment, thank you very much. Over the summer when the 17th-floor two-bedroom listed, it asked $4 million, but the ask has since dropped to $3.5M, and it went off the market just before Christmas.

Actress Tamara Tunie, best known as the medical examiner on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," is upholding the fine tradition of "Law & Order" stars owning and later selling New York City real estate by listing her Hamilton Heights townhouse. The five-story home million originally wanted $3.75 million; in November, the ask was chopped to $3.5 million.

Actor B.D. Wong, best known for his role as Dr. George Huang on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, took seven years to fully renovate the 2,950-square-foot Noho loft he purchased in 2005 for $1.25 million. This spring, he decided to part with the eclectically decorated 3BR/2BA pad, and it sold quickly for the full $3.25M ask.

"Grandmother of performance art" Marina Abramovic bought a two-bedroom condo in Soho's Urban Glass House last April for $2.65 million. Then, after a little more than a year, she sold it for $2.995 million (the full asking price). And, curtain.

Actor Willem Dafoe got rid of his rather nice West Village co-op to the tune of $2.875 million. Dafoe and his wife, Italian actress Giada Colagrande, purchased the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home for $1.6 million in 2005, but upgraded to a larger $3.99 million penthouse on nearby Jane Street in November. The Perry Street apartment was originally listed for $3.1 million.

In May, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (who is so well-known that he has an effect named after him) paid $2.75 million for a 3BR/2.5BA in Richard Meier's On Prospect Park. Burns lives in New Hampshire, so the glassy apartment will be occupied by his daughter and her fiance.

In August, actress Julia Stiles, best known for starring in the 90s classic 10 Things I Hate About You, quietly picked up a cool $2.7 million for her three-bedroom duplex in Gramercy.

After owning a pretty blah Upper West Side co-op for eight years, actress Helen Hunt—of As Good As It Gets, What Women Want, and more—sold the three-bedroom pad for $2.6 million, making a measly $155,000 profit. It's been on and off the market since 2011, so maybe she was just glad to sell the thing.

Nate Ruess of pop band Fun, responsible for such radio anthems as We Are Young and Carry On, has picked up a new Noho pad. The frontman snagged a $2.55 million two-bedroom apartment right near the pop music experts that they call NYU students these days.

Australian supermodel Elle "The Body" Macpherson doffed her two-bedroom, two-bathroom pied-a-terre on the Upper East Side. She purchased the large one-bedroom in the heyday of her career, presumably for less than the $2.4 million it sold for in October.

Former New York Giant and current talk show host Michael Strahan finallysold off his Tribeca loft for $2.3 million. He tried listing twice before it found a buyer. Strahan bought the two-bedroom, two-bathroom pied-a-terre in 2008 for $1.66 million with plans to renovate, but that never came to be. Raking in a $640,000 profit for doing nothing isn't half bad.

Documentary film director Errol Morris, known for such movies as The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line, has bought a very charming three-bedroom co-op in an 1855 Brooklyn Heights townhouse from the estate of Nobel Prize-winner and U.S. Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky. Morris and his wife, poet Julia Sheehan, paid $1.9 million for the duplex apartment, $100,000 over the asking price.

Playwright David Mamet's daughter, who is one of the main characters in Girls, is trying to flip the distinctive pink building in Bushwick she bought almost a year ago for $1.039 million. On the market since early October, Zosia Mamet is asking over $500,000 more than she paid for the place back in November 2013. Gentrification, anyone?

In January, 26-year-old pillow-lipped Rhodes Scholar Ronan Farrow—better known as the offspring of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow—dished out $1.495 million for a two-bedroom, two-bath condo on the Upper West Side. He has his own show on MSNBC, so it was probably time he had his own apartment, too.

Funnyman Jimmy Fallon and his wife Nancy really love their co-op building at 34 Gramercy Park. In September, the couple picked up their fifth unit in the building, a studio on the top floor that cost $725,000 that they plan to use as an ofice. The purchase means that the Fallons now own 1/7th of the whole building.