Whoopi Goldberg is downsizing. Well, it's hard to call a $2.8 classic colonial mansion a downsize. Especially since it's a move up, in terms of square footage, for her former NYC loft.

But the new home of The View co-host is a hefty $1-Million lower in price tag than her former digs.

And that's the heart of the story - the idea that times such as these are perfect to DOWNSIZE (reduce your mortgage). Heck you might even end up UPSIZING (increasing your square footage) in the process.

This is what RealEstalker says about Whoopi's Jersey manse:

Listing information indicates that beyond the curving circular driveway and the columned portico, the historic home counts 23 rooms including a grand entrance hall, a paneled living room with a black, veined marble fireplace surround, a banquet hall sized dining room, a family room lined with a series of tall, arched windows and an newly renovated eat in kitchen with a large work island, cream colored faux-antiqued cabinetry, granite counter tops and all the over-sized stainless steel appliances one can and should expect in a house of this weight and cost. The vast master bedroom includes a vintage, tiled bathroom plenty large enough to comfortably navigate in a damn hoop skirt, not that the somewhat masculine Miz Goldberg will be donning a hoop skirt any time soon.

Other amenities include a sitting room and sun room on the second floor, a tee-vee watching room off the kitchen, and in the basement a wine cellar, paneled billiard room, fitness room, and a media room. The wonky rear facade of the house shows a wide screened porch stretching along a good portion of the main floor. Your Mama loves us a screened porch because dealing with all them flying bugs and mosquitoes that come around on the East Coast during the hot and humid summer times can be an itchy load of misery. Listing information Your Mama managed to dig up shows the genteel property includes lush gardens, expansive lawns, a swimming pool as well as a carriage house, greenhouse and a servant's house.

Having once lived in a spectacular house in blue-blooded Tuxedo Park, NY Miz Goldberg is certainly no stranger to upscale gated communities in suburban New York City. Property records also show that the dreadlocked jokester whose real name is the much less funny Caryn Johnson also owns a house in Pacific Palisades, CA and she may or may not still own and 8,000 acre spread in Vermont, a small house (or duplex) in Berkeley, CA and some kind of property in Cornwall, CT.

According to RealEstalker, Whoopi's new crib has 9,486 square feet, eight bedrooms and six full bathrooms, a paneled billiard room, fitness room and media room - along with an impressive exterior with lush gardens, expansize lawns and a swimming pool. That's 3 times bigger than her 3,600 square foot NYC loft.

How about you? Are you an empty-nester living in way-too-big a nest? Or maybe you bought into the trend of the huge suburban homes people were buying a few years ago and now you find that you have way too many rooms.

Why not rent out the home you're in, and snatch up a bargain home at today's lowest-ever prices? Search the RealtyStore.com database - you'll be amazed at how low some of these homes are going for. Make a change! Find the home of your dreams today.