Is Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick, 22, getting ready to propose to his co-star girlfriend, Jessica Szohr? He is ready to buy her a house and live with her!

We caught up with Ed at Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Fun Fearless Male Awards” at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in NYC on Mar. 1 — and he confessed  to HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that he plans “to make some money and then buy a nice house for [Jessica]!”

And it sounds like he’s already on the way to earning the cash to do it. ”I’m going to be incredibly busy working” he told us.

Well … Jessica’s 25th birthday is on March 31! Don’t you think a diamond ring and a house would be the best present birthday present ever? —Lindsey DiMattina