Madonna, Bono and Aykroyd are busy buying and selling property

Material Girl Madonna, who shops for real estate the way some people shop for shoes, has finally purchased a third apartment in her Central Park West building, after a lengthy dispute with the co-op board, which tried to block the deal. After suing the board, Madonna paid $7 million for the apartment in the building known as Harperly Hall, according to the New York Observer.

Across town, U2 front man Bono took time out from saving the world to sell a 2,322-square-foot Central Park apartment. The apartment, which has been on the market since March 2006, sold for $4.9 million, down from the original $5.65 million asking price, the Observer reports.

Meanwhile, another one-named star is taking a different approach. Prince is reportedly renting a Beverly Hills house for a whopping $200,000 a month. It sounds like a lot of money for a rental, but the Wall Street Journal reports (third item) that the 30,000-square-foot Tuscan-style mansion does have a pool.

And former Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd may have disappeared from the big screen, but he’s been active in real estate. The Saturday Night Live icon has bought and sold several properties in the Los Angeles area in recent months, including paying $14.5 million in February for a 5,244-square-foot house in Pacific Palisades, according to the Los Angeles Times.