Britney Spears is selling her 9,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom Malibu house (it smells of Kevin) and has bought – for $7.2 million – a much-smaller, more manageable shelter for herself: a 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom, six-bathroom house in a gated Beverly Hills community that will be a lot closer to the clubs and restaurants she likes to pass out in. The new crib has, says Ruth Ryon in her Hot Property column, an office, a media room, a maid’s quarters, a balcony, and a lush yard. No word on whether there’s a pool – or nursery. According to Star, Britney went to look at the house with seven or eight friends. “She stayed for five hours and said she wanted the house immediately. She then got ready in one of the bedrooms at the house for her night out on the town. She took forever to do her hair and makeup. It was such a scene!”