If we vote for Brexit what happens

wotsthat

Rinoa wrote: »

Wells Fargo Bank.

Just paid $400m for office space in London.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2016/0718/Brexit-scare-over-Why-Wells-Fargo-bought-a-400M-building-in-London

Well why not? It's a cool £32m off compared to this time last month. Bargain.

gfplux

wotsthat wrote: »

I don't know the exact %'s but if we wanted to be more self sufficient in lettuce then we'd have to extend the growing season by using heated greenhouses.

It would probably be cheaper and use less carbon dioxide to buy a truckload of outdoor grown lettuce from Southern Spain.

We could always start to eat more seasonable produce produced in the UK but grated swede on top of mangel wurzel soup will get old very quickly.

Britain has forgotten about seasons.
I live in Luxembourg surrounded and very close to France, Belgium and Germany. All four country's celebrate the seasons with resteraunts and supermarkets selling and preparing seasonal produce and dishes.
Yes strawberrys and pineapples are always on sale but when did you last find British supermarkets and restaurant promoting local grown and imported Asparagus for three to four weeks.

wotsthat

If one of the side effects of Brexit means having to eat more British seasonal veg then brexit isn't worth it. That sort of thing is associated with post war austerity rather than the dawn of a new era of prosperity.

Rinoa

wotsthat wrote: »

Well why not? It's a cool £32m off compared to this time last month. Bargain.

Obviously a unique purchase. Everybody pays the full price without any negotiation. I've never heard of property being sold for less than the asking price. Ever.

TrickyTree83

wotsthat wrote: »

If one of the side effects of Brexit means having to eat more British seasonal veg then brexit isn't worth it. That sort of thing is associated with post war austerity rather than the dawn of a new era of prosperity.

:rotfl:

We'll be importing just as much as we do now. In the short - medium term it might be slightly more expensive but once the common customs tariff comes down you can expect a saving there, and once the good ship Britannia is on an even keel again things will return to normal and she'll be commanded by the captain and not some distant group of detatched admirals more concerned with their own well-being.

wotsthat

Rinoa wrote: »

Obviously a unique purchase. Everybody pays the full price without any negotiation. I've never heard of property being sold for less than the asking price. Ever.

By the by. Every $ buys an extra £0.08 compared to a month ago. I'm looking forward to 10% of my next house. Oh hang on - foreigners only which strikes me as sweetly ironic.

baza52

Veg and fruit can be grown all year round in any climate.
How do you think all the cannabis grown in the UK is available year round.

stockton_2

gfplux wrote: »

I was born in the 40's and it was the 60's before most of the vegetable and fruits on sale were more than potatoes and cabbage . Yes production has changed but without the EU we would still have only potatoes and cabbage. Free trade has brought many advantages we will have to wait and see how our diet will change. At least we will be in charge of our own destiny.

I am from that era and we also had lots of cauliflower, sprouts, carrots, peas and turnips. Lots of fruits too. Plums, apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, blackcurrants and strawberries. And that was in a war-ravaged Liverpool, recovering from the blitz.

Crashy_Time

spunko2010 wrote: »

People can 'sit and wait' all they want, and some will, but other factors come into play (as they have before in other periods before/during price drops): death, retirement, unemployment, kids flown the nest, moving to a new area, etc etc. Then there's affordability, I can't see IR going up but I can see credit getting more expensive.

Sitting tight and shoving your head in the sand like an ostrich doesn't prevent prices dropping.

Exactly, you can sit it out, but if a similar house in your street sells for less than yours then that is your new house price basically.

MobileSaver

spunko2010 wrote: »

Sitting tight and shoving your head in the sand like an ostrich doesn't prevent prices dropping.

Totally agree with you however prices dropping doesn't mean the HPC crowd get their dream homes with a 50% discount. The simple reality is that in a falling market only the desperate sellers or the less desirable properties are available to buy. Most people do stay put and even the HPC lot appreciate that transaction volumes are nothing like they used to be.

Crashy_Time wrote: »

The fact that stuff like the "50% crash" that was laughed at when discussed on housepricecrash forum

LOL, the HPC experts have been wrong for so long that I think I worked out you would need prices to crash by 70%+ just to get back to the same price as when you got off the property ladder!