Goodbye, Hollywood: Britney Spears, pictured here in Las Vegas yesterday, is dipping her toe into the real estate market

Pop star Britney Spears is looking to escape the bright lights of Hollywood in favour of a quiet gated community following her troubled year.

The 'Toxic' singer is said to be ready to quit her Hollywood Hills home and move to an exclusive house on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

She is reportedly 'looking like crazy' for a house in Calabasas in the San Fernando Valley.

Sources say she has set her sights on a gated community that is home to several celebrities including Blink 182 rocker Travis Barker.

The community is so private it is protected by not one but two sets of gates.

Britney has reportedly been spotted at the community gym recently.

But she is not believed to have tied up an official deal for a mansion so far.

A move to Calabasas would bring her closer to ex-husband Kevin Federline's Tarzana home and her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Her current home was the scene of the 26-year-old's well-documented meltdowns.

She was taken from the house by ambulance twice in January.

First, police were called after she refused to return her boys to Kevin.

Then she was taken to a hospital psychiatric ward with a police escort as fears about her increasingly erratic behaviour reached crisis point.

The star is currently in Las Vegas with her father and court appointed conservator Jamie, where she has been spotted cooling off in the Palms Place pool.

She is said to be in Sin City to continue work on new material for her upcoming album.

Coincidentally, Britney's ex-husband Kevin is also in Las Vegas to pick up the Father Of The Year award at a ceremony in the Prive nightclub in the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

On Monday, Britney's father Jamie filed court documents seeking money to pay for his assistance of his famous daughter following her hospitalisation in January.

Jamie says he bought her daughter groceries, cooked meals for her, visited her in hospital in February and March and assisted in custody issues between Britney and Kevin.

Meanwhile, Britney has escaped charges over an incident involving her vehicle running over a paparazzo's foot.

An unnamed photographer filed a criminal complaint against Britney after an incident last year, but prosecutors threw out the case, claiming the paparazzo was to blame for his injury.

Daddy's girl: Britney Spears at an LA restaurant with her father in February