The Cheesegrater, the Shard, the Walkie-Talkie... love them, loathe them, or merely shrug your shoulders in their general direction, our shiny new skyscrapers and bulky buildings are set to change the London skyline as they creep up over the Square Mile in the next few years. But will we be able to fill all this new space? The lean spell that every economist and his pet abacus is predicting means that offices are finding......

2012 Games won't benefit locals, claims think tank Take that, Monaco - London now has the world's priciest homes Our Amy's up for three Ivor Novello gongs Lie detector software proves a nice little money-saver for south London council Russian heavyweights to square off at the High Court Which? reveals candidates for London Restaurant of the Year Image courtesy of Orhan* via the Londonist flickr group.......

Despite getting excited about those plush pads on Hampstead's Billionaire Row, a quick ruffle through the wallet turned up little more than a threepenny bit, a half-eaten custard cream, a ticket to the opening of the Millennium Dome (unused) and the sobering realisation that Londonist is a few trust funds short of a realistic offer on a decent property. However, we're hoping for better luck in less expensive areas, such as those highlighted in......

There’s nothing like an outing to Hackney to start the mind whirring about gentrification. And we can think of no surer way to start an argument than to wander into an unreformed East End boozer enthusing about all the new construction and upscale shops popping up in the neighbourhood. The term gentrification was actually born in Islington. It was coined in the 60s by sociologist Ruth Glass, who noticed the phenomenon of middle-class people......

Time was when it cost just a tenner and the promise of a better life to tempt British folk into a new life down under. Modern times call for modern measures, however, and an Aussie tourist board has found itself in hot water after besmirching the character of our cherished city. Marketing gurus for the Australian city of Adelaide, looking for new ways to entice people southwards, are running an advertising campaign featuring legends......

If only we'd known, we could have taken that £80 million we had squirreled away and bought ourselves a nice luxury pad in Hampstead; added that beauty spa and cinema we always wanted to go with the pool and seven kitchens - one for every day of the week! According to Glentree Estates, who sold the property to an undisclosed buyer: it just shows you that the market is as strong as ever at......

Mere days after warning us about 'white flight' and the perils of living in modern London, scribes at the Telegraph have had a volte-face, and declared their love for our flawed yet fantastic city with a special report on the top 10 property hotspots for 2008. First up on the list: well, colour us a shade of surprised blue - the Telegraph's only singled out the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, home to Notting......

When this small bit of Londonist launched its IPO this summer, we had no inkling that the economy would soon be in very choppy waters. Since then we’ve seen a bank run, huge corporate losses, and grim warnings across the board. And yet somehow, bankers are still getting huge bonuses, people are still spending money they don’t have, and the rich-poor gap is getting wider and wider. All of this has left us quite......

New figures released yesterday show, well, they show that London is pretty much doing what it always does: changing. Quite how is not entirely apparent. The newspapers managed to get some headline footage out of the statistics – the Daily Mail even ran a story about the UK population across the whole of the front page. And of course, there is some stuff to report. Most significantly, shedsful of Londoners are upping camp and shipping......

A new campaign has launched today and good luck to the plucky folk literally camping outside City Hall. The latest housing campaign by London Citizens, the group responsible for the Living Wage Campaign, is a call for housing co-operatives to be built on land held in common ownership. 50 tents and hundreds of campaigners from the diverse range of community groups, faith groups and local resident groups involved are currently occupying Potters Field next......

Evening Standard Headline Fridge Magnets. Once the day's joyless toil in the belly of the unforgiving city is done, and we trundle back to our Barrett Boxes in travelling conditions that make the Bataan Death March look like a limo ride, what diverts you and gives you comfort? Thinking about fridges, of course, because the Evening Standard is full of frankly terrifying reports about how total social meltdown is only a tiny step away.......

A particularly silly article entitled Is London the New New York? Or Is It the Other Way Around? appeared recently in the New York Sun. The main arguments for the immediate twinning of our two cities put forward by the hackette what wrote said article seem to be: A) Paul McCartney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna all own homes in both cities; B) sushi-lovers can choose to eat from at least two Nobu restaurants; C)......

We seem to recall that a few years ago a tabloid newspaper published the results of a dodgy survey, claiming that the main reasons for non-Londoners not wanting to move to London were (1) house prices, (2) crime and (3) the tube. We were quite annoyed at the time, feeling that the tube deserved the number one spot without a doubt. Anyway, if any proof were needed that the tabloids love publishing the results......

Just when you thought there could be no more depressing London property stories and just as you were beginning to pray that lazy journalists couldn't come up with any more contrived Olympics-related crap, along comes: First time buyers will not win housing gold until London Olympics. 'Housing gold'...God help us. Yes the story here is that evil old house price inflation and the fact that those of us still on the 'first diving board......

The US is topping the list of 'rogue states' who have refused to pay the congestion charge over the past six months. London is apparently behind the fact that house prices just rose by 0.6 per cent, the highest monthly increase since May 2004. Summer drought update: although chances of rota cuts in water or tankers in the streets are 'remote', the chances of rationing in London are growing especially (surprise surprise) if this......

Longtime readers may remember the news from back in February about how our bus drivers were going to be trained like fighter pilots (don't click the link - it shows how bad our Photoshop skills used to be). Here's an update. Sort of. Trainee bus drivers are to be introduced to Firsdon - a virtual reality suburb which will feature in a bus simulator programme. Firsdon is a specially-created London suburb complete with pedestrians,......

Ah, the property market. Very difficult for first-time buyers... Slump in house prices… Yadda, yadda and, indeed, yadda. It’s the conversational crutch that so often helps us get from perfunctory smalltalk to a meaningful, if repetitious, conversation. So if you find yourself sipping pinot amongst braying dinner party guests, here are a couple of titbits you may wish to regurgitate. First, the news that a garage in Notting Hill is on sale for a......

"Green army to halt weed invasion," runs the BBC headline, designed to fire the imagination if nothing else. The Evening Standard is, as ever, far more restrained and less alarmist: "BLUEBELLS FACE DEATH FROM GIANT KILLER WEED," it howls. Poor show for not being able to work in house prices or Tamara Beckwith, chaps. The actual story is this: Kew Gardens has been infiltrated by "yellowflowered perfoliate Alexanders", which may sound rather nice, but......

Not sure what to do this weekend but at least know you want to indulge your voyeuristic streak? Why not go peering into the windows of really rich people's houses? Assuming of course that you're not really rich yourself, which if you are, why not pop outside look back in and try and get a fresh perspective on your abode. Maybe you want to re-consider that elephant foot umbrella stand? So the only remaining......

Nothing is more likely to set the dinner party conversation in London aflame than speculation on the direction of house prices. So the latest report from Nationwide that house prices, er, nationwide have fallen for the first time in three years, plus a warning from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research that house prices could fall by 20% to 30%, will doubtless have thirty-somethings from Plumstead to Primrose Hill worrying about that remortgage......

Picture the scene. There you are, a happy father with your “life-partner” and two pre-school children. You manage to get a mortgage on a terraced house in NW5, which the estate agents call “Gospel Oak borders” but your neighbours call Kentish Town. It’s not quite Islington, but it’s definitely a move in the right direction. You have been very worried by the recent media scares surrounding manufactured foods, but you have a nice apple tree......