The Doral Golf Resort & Spa, which Donald Trump purchased last year for $150 million, has unveiled the first images of its guest room redesigns as part of a major renovation of the property. The property, which is officially part of the Trump Hotel Collection now, will be undergoing $200 million in renovations beginning this spring after the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship at the resort. The renovation is set to conclude in 2014, when the resort will be rebranded “Trump Doral.” — Alexander Britell

Donald Trump on CNBC

While the housing markets in several U.S. cities such as New York have rebounded, there are still bargains to be had for house hunters all over the country, said real estate mogul Donald Trump in an interview this morning on CNBC (see video after the jump).

“It’s great time to buy,” Trump said. “I believe strongly prices are going to be going up. They were up a little [in the second quarter] but I really believe they’re going to be going up substantially.” [more]

Trump Hollywood

Trump Hollywood is reporting that the condominium project is now sold out. The project, which re-launched in January 2011, has since sold 179 units for $276 million. Including prior sales, the number rises to 200 units and a total of $306 million. “Congratulations to [developer] BH3, the whole development team and everyone working on Trump Hollywood, it’s been an amazing success,” Donald Trump said in a statement. [more]

Trump International and Terrell Owens

NFL star Terrell Owens’ condominium at the Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles is in foreclosure, Gossipextra.com reported. Owens, who is currently a free agent after sitting out the entire 2011-2012 season, is the target of a foreclosure action by Deutsche Bank. The receiver, who has played in Dallas, Buffalo and Cincinnati, purchased the property for $1.75 million in 2006. [Gossip Extra]

Trump’s new book[Updated 11:55 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2011] The Donald has a lot to say in his latest book, out today. In between moderating debates for Fox News, taking gold bars as a deposit at 40 Wall Street, mulling a run for office and meeting with Republican presidential nominee hopefuls (as he did today with Newt Gingrich), Trump penned another political book: “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”

In the latest advice volume, the developer of real estate from Israel to Florida, suggests that America’s problems are the result of President Barack Obama not loving America enough, that the only way to fix the deficit is to take Iraqi oil by force, and that Trump himself is worth a total of $7 billion, a disputed figure. [more]

An affiliate of Dezer Properties has paid off the $265 million mortgages on Trump Towers 2 and 3 in Sunny Isles Beach. The Dezers had assumed the mortgage from a partnership that included the Related Group in Jan. 2010, and had a four-year time frame to sell all of the remaining units. The project has just 100 units remaining in inventory. Each of the towers has 45 stories and 271 units, for a total of 813 units. Tower 1 at the project is already sold out. “This is extremely positive news for South Florida’s luxury residential real estate market,” said Gil Dezer, president of the entity. — Alexander Britell [more]

At the end of the first quarter, Sunny Isles Beach still had 1,000 condominium units unsold of those built after 2003, 37 percent of which were in Trump projects, according to a report from brokerage and consultancy Condo Vultures. While buyers purchased 69 units in Sunny Isles in the first quarter for a total of nearly $68 million, the transaction pace appears to have slowed. In the first quarter of 2010, there were 105 condo sales for a total of $102 million. [more]

After suggesting that he may run for the Presidential nomination in 2012, Donald Trump touted his credentials on Fox News today, arguing that he has “more experience [than] anybody” who also may seek the Republican nomination. Trump, who plans to announce his intentions by June, said that he “screwed” Muammar Qaddafi in 2009, when he rented out his upstate estate to the Libyan leader, only to revoke the land and renege on the deal. “He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land,” Trump said. “That’s what we should be doing.” [Gawker] [more]

From the New York March issue: In 2001, given the choice between money and fame, Barbara Corcoran chose money. The self-made Queen of New York Real Estate cashed out — selling the Corcoran Group to NRT for $66 million — but quickly regretted losing her personal brand.

In “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business,” out last month, Corcoran writes of her post-business period as “secretly miserable” and without purpose. She missed, she writes, her legions of “adoring brokers.”

Now a “Shark Tank” judge, Corcoran — never one to miss a publicity opportunity — timed her book’s launch with the beginning of the TV show’s second season. The “Today” show contributor shares her best self-branding tips in “Shark,” co-written by Bruce Littlefield and published by Portfolio/Penguin.

The Real Deal combed the new sections (the book was previously published as “If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails” in 2004) for gems. [more]

Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group, co-star of reality show “Shark Tank” and a regular contributer to the “Today” show, admits that she wasn’t always on top of things — personally or professionally. In an interview with the Bigger Pockets blog, Corcoran said she got “straight Ds” in high school, which she describes as “charity Ds” in lieu of Fs. But while she said there was no “turning point” in her life, Corcoran said that consistent effort got her through tough years of waiting tables and working odd jobs. [more]