Whitney Houston is in the midst of a comeback (complete with a new album and an appropriately contrite appearance on Oprah) and she's shedding the trappings of her old life including some real estate. The Real Estalker reveals that Houston has listed her home in Mendham Township, New Jersey. The five-bedroom contemporary home sits on a five acre lot with a pool, pool house and tennis court. The Real Estalker Mama says that Houston bought the home in 1987 and it appears very 1980s in its style with a circular theme that includes a domed sky light, semicircular walls of windows and a curved wall of art glass. The home is over 12,500 square feet of curving windows draped in lackluster swags, floors in neutral carpeting and pale terracotta tile and anonymous decor. In the master bedroom the bed is mounted on a dais facing a television and topped with more circles in the lighting fixture. It was probably the height of fashion at one point but now it seems a bit dated. It is listed at an even $2.5 million but Property Shark shows an assessed value of $5,640,700 and a tax bill of $87,609.

Usually our estate of the day celebrity Sundays take us to Los Angeles or New York but today there are two reasons to discuss Alpharetta, Georgia. The first bit of news comes from Celebrity Big Time Listings which reported that Whitney Houston sold her home in Alpharetta. She bought the home in 2003 for $1,388,888 and the home was on the market for $1,349,000. The home, which was used in the TV show "Being Bobby Brown" was sold in May at a loss.

Also looking to sell in Alpharetta is musician Usher. Usher, who recently married his soon-to-be baby mama who has three children already is probably in need of more space than this five bedroom, 8,022 square foot home can provide. The home is located in the Country Club of the South, a private golf course community. The Real Estalker reports that Usher paid $1,200,000 in December of 1998, buying the home from L.A. Reid. A story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that when Usher was a 13-year-old new face that he vowed one day the house would belong to him. The house has also been featured on MTV Cribs. The home itself has the necessary musician requirements such as a hair salon, an exercise room for working those famous abs, a hair salon and a billiard room. The pics are few and a wee bit bland. The Real Estalker Mama already commented on the foible in wood that is the cabinet in the living room. It's not a bad house, just a bit tame. The home is listed at $1.95 million. Will Usher get that price? I wouldn't bet on it but hopefully he will do better than Whitney did.

UPDATE: Two years later this home is still listed at $1.95 million.

Oh Whitney, has it come to this? Singer Whitney Houston is divesting herself of more than just a troublesome husband and a few homes, she's also selling off a few possessions. Houston is clearly planning a more restrained future if her cast offs are any indication. Beaded Versace catsuits, an acrylic piano and some strange glass furniture are just some of the items which will be sold on January 9 in New Jersey. Hooray for Whitney for letting these hats go, that may be one of her best moves since ditching Bobby.

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Whitney Houston may be free of Bobby Brown but her woes aren't over yet. Her New Jersey mansion is listed as being up for bid at a sheriff's sale on January 4 by the Morris County Sheriff's Office. She owes more than $1 million in back taxes and other charges. According to the Daily Record of Parsippany newspaper, the sale was scheduled on Tuesday and neither the mortgage nor taxes have been paid so far this year. Houston's estate is actually two lots and the lot for sale has been assessed at $889,300. The adjacent lot is worth more than $5.6 million and Houston bought both properties in 1987 for $2.7 million.

Whitney's not the only diva set to ditch the house following a big break-up. Britney Spears just put her Malibu house on the market for $13.5 million in the wake of her split from Kevin Federline.