Who’s the first performer that comes to mind when you think “Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday bash”? Amy Winehouse? Right, us neither. London housing prices fell by 0.5% in April. Brilliant! At that rate, Londonist should be able to afford a home here around 2028. The deputy mayor for young people warns that there is no “magic solution” to the recent spate of violence among teens. No magic solution, perhaps, but let’s hope that other......

Thanks to a concerned reader, we were alerted today to a potential tragedy in the making. It seems that the folks over in Monopoly Land are holding an online vote to choose the world’s top twenty cities (in addition to two wild cards) for its Here & Now: World Edition version of the classic game. Winners will be awarded prime real estate slots in the world edition board game – leading us to wonder......

Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.Torontoist set hearts......

Call us starry-eyed saps, but when we learned today that J.M. Barrie’s former home is up for sale, we couldn’t help that we were filled with whimsical visions of left-behind shadows, fanciful fantasies of flights to Neverland, and an urge to occupy the place immediately. With the friendly ghost of Barrie and an inexhaustible supply of fairy dust, we’re pretty sure we’d crank out seventeen Londonist posts a day. Write our first novels. Never......

Allies and Morrison Architects have designed this trio of towers to sit on the Southbank behind the Shell Centre for P&O Estates and Morgan Stanley Real Estate. The site next to York Road is currently occupied by the sixties slab, Elizabeth House, and for an area directly outside one of London’s busiest stations is shockingly bad. Much is made of the ground level improvements that the redevelopment will offer including new pedestrianised areas that......

Yup, the towering innuendo has been sold by Swiss Reinsurance for over a billion dollars. German real estate company IVG are the proud new owners, but Swiss Re will remain the main tennants. OK, it's rather dull news. We got bored trying to work out if it means anything interesting. It doesn't. So here instead are an assortment of other things the investors could have got for their money... - All the heart failure......

And so West Ham finally decided to step off the Train to the Clouds and join the Polar Express instead. On Tuesday morning the club released a statement to the Stock Exchange "confirming acceptance from the major shareholders of an £85million offer" from an Icelandic consortium led by tabloid photographer's delight Eggert Magnusson and backed largely by funds emanating from his countryman Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson. Eggert is certainly saying all the right things: I am......

All the best stuff from our sister sites around the globe: Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a rogues' gallery of miscreants major, minor, and alleged. Gothamist gets us started with "Law & Order", muppet style. Oh, you know what isn't a crime? Taking pictures on the MTA. So,......

In the last few minutes it's been announced that Capital & Counties, a subsidiary of Liberty International Plc have bought 31 properties covering 450,000 square foot off the Covent Garden Market Limited Partnership for £421 million. In case you're wondering who Liberty are, apparently they're "the country's third-biggest listed property firm" and they own Lakeside among other things. And what are they going to do with the maket? Develop it of course, so that......

Hey, have you all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own. Phillyist thinks that readers recommended this post the most because "most of our quieter readers (probably) agree with us that rude commenting sucks." Know what else sucks? Philly's not getting the Olympics, but they are getting......

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. Houstonist is no stranger to megachurches or stripmalls or mega-strip-churchmalls. The children of Houston are under assault by unknown forces as this week a playground......

The latest defection from LA to join the gangs of Hollywood ex-patratriates gobbling up the primest of London prime real estate is Neve Campbell. The film actress is currently in London rehearsing the Robert Altman directed, Arthur Miller scripted play Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The Old Vic is no stranger to asylum seekers from Hollywood: no less than Kevin Spacey runs the place as Artistic Director and keeps up......

Shiver our timbers. London’s had lots of cold weather so far this winter, but precious little snow. (Perhaps not entirely a bad thing, given the toxic fume cloud currently presiding over us.) Whatever the weather, there’ll be plenty of the white, wet stuff on offer at Bankside this Friday through Sunday, as the third annual Frost Fair gets underway. Frost Fairs are one of London’s oldest traditions. Back in Tudor and Stuart times, the......

You know what Londonist loves? Londonist loves those free newspapers that appear unbidden through our letter slot every now and then. Although most of the pages are filled with real estate ads, the half-dozen pages of local news thrown in to make the publication look respectable can sometimes be pure poetry. Case in point: the Tottenham and Wood Green Independent that arrived on the desks of Londonist's high-tech command centre last week. On the......

Not content with driving around in their annoying little cars with urban-inspired street graphics, London's real estate agents are now finding time in their busy schedule of fleecing renters and pushing the envelope of bad shirt-tie combinations http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.590441.0.not_quite_your_average_house.php" target="blank">to fight crime. Well, when we say fight crime, we actually mean inadvertently stumble into a cannabis factory in Leytonstone and call the rozzers. Agents from Clarke Hillyer Property Consultants along with the owner of the......

A few months ago you couldn't move for 'A List' celebrities clamouring to get a house in London, what with the likes of Dustin Hoffman and Christian Slater eyeing up our overpriced real estate. But now the tide seems to have turned, indeed there's a bit of a celeb' exodus going on. First, Nell McAndrew suffers her second 'burgling nightmare' and vows to return to Leeds where she will "feel safer". Then, heartbreakingly, Jude......

It's been a while since we had a bit of outrageous property price news on Londonist, so where better to go for the latest bit of real estate ridiculousness than leafy Hampstead. The Hampstead and Highgate Express is reporting today that a studio flat in Mount Vernon has gone on the market for around the one million quid mark. "The 1,300sq ft ground floor flat comes complete with its own bar and a 30ft......

London Bridge is in such a sorry state that double decker buses no longer operate over it and tourists are now being wooed by the Dixie Belle riverboat tour and a nearby Hawaiian gift shop instead. Mike Dagon, a local real estate agent had this to say: London Bridge still attracts a lot of people but the visitation hasn't grown much over the years. It used to be the second-most popular tourist attraction in......

Despite the terror 'scares' and the escalating cost of real estate in the UK, London seems hell bent on building taller and taller buildings. But in recent weeks the trend seems to have stalled with numerous architectural hard luck stories in the press. Everyone knows what a great building the Swiss Re Tower/erotic gherkin is but, on the other hand, everyone knows it's half empty and struggling to pay the bills too. So is......