Hot on the heels of our report last night about Heath Ledger’s former SoHo apartment being on the market for $26,000 per month is the news from Big Time listings that Ledger’s home has been sold, too. His estate tried to keep the sale of the 1,861-square-foot house for $2,500,000 out of the news as much as possible.

The home was purchased in May, and the sale was recorded in July. According to Big Time, the sale deed omitted the home’s street address and Ledger’s trust name. Prices eventually become public record, though, as this one has.

The late actor originally bought the house for $2,300,000 in 2005. The home features two bedrooms, two baths, and sits on just under a 1/2 acre.

It makes you wonder why the trust representatives went to such lengths to obscure the sale. Did they not want lookey-loos coming by just to tour Ledger’s home? Or did it have anything to do with Ledger’s baby mama Michelle and all the drama surrounding her and Ledger’s estate? No one’s talking right now.

Heath Ledger’s last residence is on the rental market for $26,000 a month. That’s $4,000 more than Ledger was paying for it. Interestingly, while Ledger died in January, it was already being quietly shopped in February just weeks after his death.

Apparently even an actor’s untimely death won’t stop a hot rental market. Or will it? The place was not immediately rented as brokers thought it would be. So it went off the market and is now back on.

Ledger had only been renting the place around 4 months or so, moving in after he finished his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, an office, laundry room, gourmet kitchen, and a nice balcony, according to the New York Post. The building uses an intercom system with a keyed elevator for security.

Besides his role in the Batman saga, Ledger was probably best known for his role in the controversial Brokeback Mountain. I read the original short story by Annie Proulx when I was in college, and let me tell you, my darlings, that it was an amazingly written love story. It took my breath away. At it’s most basic, that’s really what the story was. I didn’t see the movie, but have heard that Ledger did an amazing job. Just like it was said of him as the Joker. It really is too bad when we lose someone so talented at such a young age.

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