Celebrity Real Estate: Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise, Jeff Gordon

Taylor Swift Shaking It Off In High Style

While native New Yorkers may have their feathers in a flap over Taylor Swift's Big Apple invasion, you have to hand it to the savvy songstress. When she buys real estate, whether in Nashville, Beverly Hills or Rhode Island, she's goes big and calls it home.

Swift recently purchased a Tribeca penthouse from "Lord of the Rings" movie maestro Peter Jackson. Rolling Stone made a stop at the apartment recently, now that Swift is promoting her new album, "1989," and has been a fixture on all sorts of magazine covers and the occasional New York Knicks' games.

Swift's NYC digs cost her $19.95 million and leaves her no shortage of room to hang with buddies like Ed Sheeran. There are 7 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and a cool warehouse-loft feel with exposed brick and overhead beams. And given Swift's fastidious call for security, she is said to have purchased a smaller, 3-bedroom unit across the hall for her staff.

Tom Cruise, Jeff Gordon Selling Big Colorado Estates

The Tom half of TomKat is looking to unload his Telluride estate. The price is $59 million for the cedar and stone estate that the Hollywood star designed and built back in 1994.

With no wife these days, his two older children grown and daughter Suri with Katie Holmes most of the time, Cruise has little need or time for the Colorado spread.

The estate includes 298 acres of national forest land and the nearly 10,000-square-foot main residence has 4 bedrooms and 6 full bathrooms. There's also a 1,600-square-foot guesthouse with 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths.

Meanwhile, another pretty-faced thrill-seeking star is looking to unload his Colorado ranch. NASCAR king Jeff Gordon has dropped the price of his 1,930-acre ranch in Missouri Heights, north of Aspen.

Gordon originally listed for $12.5 million in May 2013 and knocked down to $10.95 million last October. The eternally verdant land is now priced at $10.5 million. In addition to killer alpine views, one major draw of Gordon's ranch is its ample water rights and no conservation restrictions.